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Swedish Red Cross Aid for prisoners in Germany, 1945

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 2004.714.1 | RG Number: RG-60.4113 | Film ID: 2740

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    Swedish Red Cross Aid for prisoners in Germany, 1945
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    Description
    "Witness Stand: A Reportage on the Swedish Red Cross Aid Action for Prisoners in Germany" Production date, April 1945. Part 1
    Greve Folke Bernadotte leaves for mission to Germany, plane takes off. Red Cross personnel get off a white bus. In Malmo they take a ferry to Copenhagen. Happy, freed prisoners board the boat at the dock. Poles and French land in Sweden. Old women. Small children. Womenfolk. Wagon rolls inland from ferry. Countess Maj-Lis from Eichstedt, born Luening, greets them welcome home. Boarding ambulances, taken to curatorium/convalescent home. Old woman greets her stretcher bearer. Bearer loads her onto ambulance.
    Film Title
    Witness Stand
    Duration
    00:09:11
    Date
    Event:  1945
    Production:  1945
    Locale
    Sweden
    Credit
    Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Sveriges Television AB
    Contributor
    Director: Nils Jerring
    Producer: SF (AB Svensk Filmindustri)

    Physical Details

    Language
    Swedish
    Genre/Form
    Newsreels.
    B&W / Color
    Black & White
    Image Quality
    Good
    Time Code
    01:19:51:00 to 01:29:02:00
    Film Format
    • Master
    • Master 2740 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - PAL
      Master 2740 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - PAL
      Master 2740 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - PAL
      Master 2740 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - PAL
    • Preservation
    • Preservation 2740 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Preservation 2740 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Preservation 2740 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Preservation 2740 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    This archival media can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations.
    Copyright
    Sveriges Television AB
    Conditions on Use
    For copyright clearance, contact SVT at librarysales@svt.se.

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    Administrative Notes

    Film Provenance
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this footage from Sveriges Television AB, SVT Sales in Stockholm, Sweden in October 2004.
    Note
    See also RG-60.4111 and RG-60.4112 for outtakes from this newsreel. See RG-60.4114 for the second half of this newsreel.

    SVT Note: Original provenance is "SF short film 1709"
    Copied From
    transferred from Betacam SP (PAL)
    Film Source
    Sveriges Television AB
    File Number
    Legacy Database File: 4350
    Source Archive Number: SF 2770A
    Record last modified:
    2024-02-21 08:00:31
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