Overview
- 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
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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
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- 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.
- Copyright Holder
- Sveriges Television AB
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- 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 - Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 08:00:31
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