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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221403-18
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1947
Country: Israel,Palestine
Location: Jerusalem
TC Begins: 05:03:56
TC Ends: 05:15:10
Duration: 00:11:14
Palestine & British Troops, Jerusalem; Bombing Aftermath Bomb explosion wreckage on street w/ troops getting people out of rubble; into ambulance truck. 05:04:07 View up deserted streets. British troops stringing barbed wire; military vehicles patrolling. British troops walking; military track vehicle down road. Convoy of track vehicles w/ troops up, past camera. Pedestrians watch; soldier w/ rifle follow two men down street. 05:05:34 Bulldozer moving debris from building after explosion. Good CU. LS of building w/ corner demolished. Soldiers behind rock wall w/ rifles. Laying on ground w/ rifle. 05:06:21 Ladder against demolished wall, man in shorts climbs down. 05:06:35 Man, not Yadin, off ladder. 05:06:41 Military vehicle below bombed site. Treating wounded; removing from wreckage. Troops into building; Orthodox Jews & others walked out & arrested. People lined along sidewalk watching. Searching men; checking papers. 05:08:06 Railroad & people hurry along platform. Sign: El Kantara. People boarding train, looking out window as train leaves. 05:08:28 Grounded ship w/ soldiers watching from shore; view from boat on water w/ people filling deck & banner Haim Arlozorov (ship name). Soldiers on board. Medics carry stretcher along dock w/ injured; others walked w/ bandages. MCU from landing craft to dock. 05:09:06 Building w/ troops around it. CU sign: Barclays Bank (Dominion, Colonial & Overseas). Troops guard doorway. Graphics for explosion. Wreckage on street. Injured & dead removed. Ladder against building. Soldiers searching; arresting; men walked in group by soldiers thru street. Searching men at check point. Troops on balcony, thru streets. 05:11:04 People in line at railroad station. Men saying goodbye to wife & children on train. Baggage on platform. Train leaves. European men walking along streets, VIPs, Arabs shake their hands. Enter orphanage. Girls in uniforms, small children around table; European man in double-breasted suit arrives w/ woman in nun (?) scarf. Overhead shot of kids. CU sign: Department of Health, Infant Welfare Centre. Men leaving onto street & into car as people watch. Motorcade leaves. 05:13:57 Arab shepherd w/ goats, military truck convoy up hairpin turn on hillside. People riding in back of truck. Sandbagged observation post w/ passenger train behind. High angle people getting out of back of army truck. MS People coming & going thru barbed wire check point outside railroad station. MCU. Boarding train car. People into station. 05:14:54 People waving to camera inside very crowed train. CU woman looking for papers in purse at check point. CU kids & mothers on train at window; photographers taking their picture. Immigrants; Blockade; British Occupation; British Mandate; Terrorism; Refugees; Note: Ship Haim Arlozorov forced aground near Haifa 28Feb47. Sent to Cyprus.