Overview
- Description
- CU, crowd of women, ex-prisoners, waving and gesturing to lorry carrying SS. VCU sign on roadside, "Danger Typhus." CUs of similar Military Police Sign on a post in field, different shots testing focus. Frontal MCU of Schwimmwagen of 11 Light Field Ambulance parked inside women's compound, bearing Red Cross flag. Two British soldiers talk to pretty inmate by jeep, tents in BG. CU, of British soldiers in jeep, one smiling and smoking a cigarette. Martin Wilson talking with female prisoner, joined by two male inmates. In background are British Army tents with French flag flying over. Frenchman prepares meal over fire. CU, bulldozer with bodies. Two women's bodies bulldozed, slide along dirt. CU of bulldozer driver, Wrinn of Hoddington, Scotland, as he spits over side of tractor and smokes. Side angle of bulldozer, blade set too high so bodies slip beneath vehicle. VCU, of cringing bulldozer driver, Wrinn, with cigarette. View from bulldozer, over edge of bulldozer. MS of relief driver, Burridge of Todmordon, Yorks holding petrol soaked handkerchief over nose and mouth while driving tractor with other hand. VCU, FG woman inmate watching, hands to mouth, holding kerchief, BG out of focus. Bulldozer, earth being moved over pit, cover. MCUs of women prisoners looking on, and Burridge driving, bulldozer, kerchief and hand, goes past camera. Bodies laid out, being shoveled together. MS of ambulance and trailer, driver shows effects (shell hole) of German fighter attack from April 20, 1945. Hungarian soldiers digging trench-grave. CU and VCU on shovels.
- Duration
- 00:06:07
- Date
-
Event:
1945 April 19
- Locale
-
Belsen,
Germany
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Imperial War Museums
- Contributor
-
Camera Operator:
Michael Lewis
Physical Details
- Language
- Silent
- Genre/Form
- Unedited.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Good
- Time Code
- 15:37:11:00 to 15:43:18:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 8 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 9 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 8 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 9 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 8 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 9 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 8 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 9 Video: One Inch - NTSC- Preservation
Preservation 8 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 8 Video: U-matic - 3/4 inch - NTSC
Preservation 8 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - small
Preservation 9 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - small
Preservation 8 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 8 Video: U-matic - 3/4 inch - NTSC
Preservation 8 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - small
Preservation 9 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - small
Preservation 8 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 8 Video: U-matic - 3/4 inch - NTSC
Preservation 8 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - small
Preservation 9 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - small
Preservation 8 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 8 Video: U-matic - 3/4 inch - NTSC
Preservation 8 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - small
Preservation 9 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - small
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- You do not require further permission from the Museum to access this archival media.
- Copyright
- Imperial War Museums
- Conditions on Use
- For licensing enquiries and requests, contact Imperial War Museums (IWM) at filmcommercial@iwm.org.uk. IWM also offers limited services for non-commercial parties, such as for museums, armed forces, veterans and their immediate family, family history researchers, and students. For such purposes, contact film@iwm.org.uk.
- Copyright Holder
- Imperial War Museums
Keywords & Subjects
- Keyword
- BERGEN-BELSEN BULLDOZERS BURIALS CONCENTRATION CAMPS CONCENTRATION CAMPS (LIBERATION) CORPSES FLAGS GERMANY GRAVES JEEPS LIBERATION MASS GRAVES MEDICAL PERSONNEL MILITARY VEHICLES PITS PRISONERS RED CROSS SHOVELS SIGNS/POSTERS SOLDIERS/MILITARY (BRITISH) SOLDIERS/MILITARY (HUNGARIAN) SURVIVORS TENTS TYPHUS WOMEN
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this collection of film segments about the liberation of Belsen from the Imperial War Museum in London in March 1991.
- Copied From
- 35mm positive b/w
- Film Source
- Imperial War Museums
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 194
Source Archive Number: A700/305/1 - Special Collection
-
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:59:35
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn1000215
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