- Title: VM-1214
- Summary: HOME OF THE HOMELESS: DISLOCATED REFUGEES AND SURVIVORS OF THE HOLOCAUST. A DAY IN LIFE OF DISPLACED PERSONS IN REFUGEE CAMPS IN GERMANY.
- Description:00:22:32 - AERIAL PAN FORMER BARRACKS AND GROUNDS FOR GERMAN SS TROOPS, NOW A CAMP FOR DISPLACED PERSONS. PAN MULTI-STORIED APARTMENT PROJECT-LIKE BUILDINGS WITH WALLS STILL SCARRED BY WAR, WHERE DISPLACED PERSONS (,VOICE OVER), "LIVE AND WORK, LOVE, MARRY, DREAM AND HOPE FOR THE DAY WHERE THEY WOULD HAVE A CHANCE TO LIVE FREE LIVES IN A FREE COUNTRY". SMOKE STACK PROTRUDES FROM ONE OF APARTMENT WINDOWS. 00:23:24 - VARIOUS SHOTS TINY APARTMENT. LIVING SPACE IS ALLOTTED BY THE CUBIC FOOT. ABOVE PAN ROOM WHICH CONTAINS 20 PEOPLE (FIVE FAMILIES). BEDS SEPARATED BY BLANKETS HANGING ON STRING. COUPLE TEND FOR THEIR LITTLE CHILD IN THEIR "SPACE". WIFE DRAWS BLANKET ACROSS HER SPACE. GROUPS WASHING, SHAVING THEMSELVES AT SINKS IN COMMON SPACE. MCU MAN LATHERS HIS FACE, SHAVES WITH RAZOR. PEOPLE LINE UP FOR MEALS CAFETERIA STYLE. MAN EATS AT TABLE AS WIFE MAKES BED RIGHT BEHIND HIM. 00:24:30 - MS SOME ARY LUCKY ENOUGH TO HAVE JOBS OUTSIDE THE CAMP. MS GROUP MEN GREET POLICE GUARD AS THEY LEAVE GATE FOR WORK. SIGN AT ENTRANCE "ALL VEHICLES SHOW TRIP TICKETS TO POLICE CONTROL". ABOVE VIEW SAME. ABOVE VIEW WORKERS CLIMB INTO WAITING BUS. 00:24:44 - MS WOMEN SCRUB CLOTHES IN COMMON LARGE WASH AREA. "EVERY DAY IS WASH DAY". CU YOUNG WOMEN SCRUBBING THEIR LIMITED CLOTHES. 00:25:00 - LARGE GROUP MEN AND WOMEN AT SEWING MACHINES IN FACTORY, WHERE DP'S MAKE PAJAMAS OUT OF LUFTWAFFE PARACHUTES FOR THEMSELVES AND OTHER DP'S. MS TWO MEN WORK AS MECHANICS INSIDE THE CAMP. REPAIRING JEEP. TWO MASONS REPAIR OUTSIDE WALL WITH CEMENT. CARPENTERS SANDING FURNITURE. COOKS STIR HUGE STEAM POTS WITH PADDLES. LS MACHINISTS WORKING AT LATHES. CU INSTRUCTOR OVERSEES MAN AT LATHE. 00:25:31 - CU TILT DOWN LIST ON DIRECTORY IN LOBBY OF MAIN BUILDING. WHICH EVERYTHING FROM IMMIGRATION BUREAU TO A LARGE POSE OFFICE AND POLICE. CU POLICEMAN WITH GI HELMET DIRECTS TRAFFIC IN AND PUT COMPOUND. 00:25:49 - MALE DIETICIAN WORKS WITH ABACUS FIGURING FOOD RATIONS, CALORIES FOR EVERYONE IN CAMP. WOMEN ENTER, EXIT SUPPLY BUILDING WHERE THEY RECEIVE THEIR RATIONS OF FOOD. 00:26:20 - PEOPLE READ CAMP'S ACTIVITIES OUTSIDE BULLETIN BOARD IN TYPICAL TOWN HALL FASHION. MLS MALE TEACHER, BACK TO CAMERA TEACHING CLASS OF CHILDREN, WRITES ON BLACKBOARD. PAN STUDENTS AT DESKS. VARIOUS CU SHOTS CHILDREN AT DESKS. 00:26:50 - PEOPLE PRAYING IN CHAPEL. EACH FAITH HAS ITS OWN PLACE OF WORSHIP. GREEK ORTHODOX, ROMAN CATHOLIC, JEWISH AND PROTESTANT. LIBRARY FILLED WITH CHILDREN READING AT TABLES. 00:27:10 - CROWD CHILDREN GATHER AROUND RING TO WATCH TWO BOYS BOX. MLS KIDS PLAYING VOLLEYBALL IN CAMP YARD. sports. MS PAN BOY SCOUTS AND GIRL SCOUTS OF VARIOUS SIZES LINE UP AT ATTENTION. 00:27:43 - TINY GIRLS IN BALLET COSTUMES PRACTICE IN STUDIO RAILING AS YOUNG FEMALE TEACHER WATCHES. MCU TINY BALLERINA. MAN (PIANO VIRTUOSO) IN LARGE STUDIO ROOM PLAYING BABY GRAND PIANO AS KIDS SEATED ON WINDOW SILL WATCH. CU YOUNG MAN PLAYING. classical music. 00:28:00 - MLS MAN EXITS CAMP HOSPITAL ON CRUTCHES. MS NURSE ASSISTS MALE PATIENT IN BED DRINK GLASS OF WATER. PAN HARD CORE SICK, AGED AND CRIPPLED, PATIENTS IN BEDS. SOME OF WHICH MAY NEVER BE CURED. TUBERCULOSIS HAS TAKEN ITS TOLL. OLD MEN AND WOMEN SEATED AT TABLE. geriatrics, medicine 00:28:33 - MAN WITH ONE LEG WALKING ON CRUTCHES. CU "THERE ARE ALSO THE HIGHLY TRAINED". MS MAN READING AND WRITING AT TABLE WITH LAMP. "MOST COUNTRIES DON'T WANT IMMIGRANT DOCTORS, LAWYERS, TEACHERS, MUSICIANS, SO THEY ALSO WAIT OR HOPE OR LEARN ANOTHER TRADE". 00:29:00 - STREET SCENE IN CAMP, WORKERS FIXING STREET, CHILDREN, TILT UP TO LOUD SPEAKER ON WALL OF BUILDING, WHICH PLAYS MUSIC AND GIVES PEOPLE INFORMATION FROM EARLY MORNING TO EVENING. YOUNG MALE DISC JOCKEY IN CONTROL ROOM MAKES ANNOUNCEMENTS, PLAYS MUSIC. VARIOUS SHOTS AUDIENCE OF LATVIANS, UKRAINIANS, JEWS, ROMANIANS, ARMENIANS, RUSSIANS, YUGOSLAVS, CZECHS AND POLES, IN STREET LISTENING, FACE SHOTS CHILDREN, MEN AND WOMEN. 00:30:22 - MAN BEING INTERVIEWED IN OFFICE. GROUPS MEN, WOMEN CHILDREN IN WAITING ROOM WAITING TO BE INTERVIEWED. MAN GETTING PHYSICAL EXAM. ANOTHER BEING FINGERPRINTED, DOCUMENTS BEING CHECKED. 00:30:45 - GROUPS OF FAMILIES SELECTED FOR IMMIGRATION SIT IN BACK OF TRUCKS WAITING TO BE MOVED TO RE-SETTLEMENT CAMP, THEN MOVED BY BOAT, PLANE TO THEIR NEW HOMES IN U. S., CANADA, AND LATIN AMERICA. LS TRUCKS MOVE OUT. OF CAMP AS OTHER REMAIN BEHIND, HOPEFULLY STUDYING THE BULLETIN BOARDS FOR THEIR CHANCE TO LEAVE. PEOPLE MILLING AROUND, READING NEWSPAPERS, STROLLING INSIDE CAMP GROUNDS. AERIAL PAN DISPLACED PERSONS CAMP. 00:31:31 - END
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1940
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1940s
- File Name: VM-1214