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1937 ca - Spain, Spanish Civil War: Spanish Civilians Evacuated - Destruction in City

Reel Number: 221098-06

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1937,1930s

Country: England,Spain,United Kingdom

Location: Madrid,Mondejar

TC Begins: 01:24:29

TC Ends: 01:28:53

Duration: 00:04:24

1937 ca - Spain, Spanish Civil War: Spanish Civilians Evacuated - Destruction in City High pan down facade of British Embassy in Madrid w/ roof damaged after bombing by Spanish rebels - Union Jack flag hanging above gate. CU plaque ‘His Britannic Majesty’s Embassy & Consulate’. INT shots showing bomb damage - British Ambassador to Spain ? 01:25:03 Troops w/ rifles advance through woodland - crawling. Soldier in trench throws grenade, others fix bayonets to rifles. 01:26:04 Women & children in train carriage marked Madrid-Mondejar - evacuating refugees. Soldiers help load more kids into goods carriage. Train leaves station watched by men on platform. Mother kisses kids through train window. Refugees wrapped in blankets on platform. Pan down apartment building in city Madrid ? w/ damaged blinds at windows - sandbag roadblock across street. Refugees onto truck & through streets w/ belongings. Civilians salvage possessions from rubble - little boy w/ broken scooter. Pan down apartment building w/ most of facade collapsed. Civilian women & children in ruined streets. NB Some shots out of focus. Spanish Civil War. 1930s Spain; ca 1937;

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