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WWII - 1942, Spain Prison: Alcala de Henares; Yeserias Prison; Alcala de Henares & Comendadoras

Reel Number: 221156-24

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1942,1940s

Country: Spain

Location: Alcala de Henares,Comendadoras Prison,Madrid,Yeserias Prison

TC Begins: 16:22:22

TC Ends: 16:29:15

Duration: 00:06:53

WWII - 1942, Spain Prison: Alcala de Henares; Yeserias Prison; Alcala de Henares & Comendadoras Top shot prisoners assembling in Alcala de Henares prison yard, shot through bars of window. GV prisoners marched back into building seen from above & from yard. Man blows bugle, prisoners march to workshops; seen coming thru barred gates into building. Wooden benches loaded onto trucks. 16:24:32 Yeserias Prison (ca 1942) Madrid, Spain Political prisoners who are journalists, edit weekly newspaper Redencion. Editorial room, men typing, director of the prison enters with one of the prisoners. Director looking at copy & discussing. Sequence repeated. 16:25:27 Newspapers on conveyor belt stacked & packed into bundles. Prisoners in yard reading newspaper. Sign Redencion Jornal de los prisioneros. 16:26:38 Alcala de Henares and Comendadoras prison (ca 1942) Madrid, Spain Artists & intellectual prisoners. Sculpture studio, prisoners working on religious pieces. Prisoner painting crucifix. Two prisoners carving statues. Prisoners doing pen drawings of altars to replace those destroyed during the revolution. 16:27:46 Comendadoras prison in Madrid. Shots in cartography work room showing prisoners making relief map. Plaster spread over mold. Dried map of Spain removed from mold, prisoners putting details on relief maps. Dictators; Franco Era; Post Spanish Civil War; Political Prisoners; Sculptor; Craftsmen;

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