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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221054-01
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1942,1940s
Country: Spain
Location: Madrid
TC Begins: 06:00:12
TC Ends: 06:10:45
Duration: 00:10:33
WWII - 1942, Spain: Madrid Scenes - Royal Statues Removed - Charity Collections VS Place d’Orient, Madrid - trolley cars / trams past - pedestrians - construction work under way. Statues of Kings of Spain being removed outside Royal Palace - man paints names of Kings & Queens on statue bases. Construction site - men w/ pickaxes. LS Royal Palace through trees; MLS Royal Palace by day and night. Statue of Don Quixote & Sancho Panza in front of monument to Cervantes. 06:02:31 General Franco’s motorcade w/ motorcycle escort past camera & into Royal Palace. INT meeting of the Spanish Council in session; MS Chancellor of Council, Manuel Halcon w/ Pilar Primo de Rivera sister of Jose Antonio . Brazilian delegate M. Real de Azua reading report - Bishop of Madrid & Admiral Moreu. CU Manuel Halcon. 06:03:30 LS Delegacion Nacional building - signs ‘FET y de las JONS Falange ruling party - Auxilio Social’ - people out (houses group providing funds to support family centers caring for homeless children). INT meeting of the National Council - President Manuel Martinez de Tona assisted by general secretary Carmen de Icaza, author, playwright & journalist - takes notes during meeting. Delegates talking after meeting. 06:04:58 Dr Campos behind desk opening mail - receives subscription form from Auxilio Social to raise funds for ‘Family Centers’ for homeless children; CUs filling out Ficha Azul or blue slip; collector into office, Doctor gives him money. 06:06:33 VS Auxilio Social HQ - women at work printing subscription slips, filing cards in system, sealing donation tins, packing donor badges. CU Dr Campo filling in name & address on his ‘blue slip’. 06:08:36 Woman in bar collecting money from Mr. Lopez & Mr Soler of RKOs Madrid branch; receiving badges from woman. Women on street collecting money outside subway entrance; CU woman holding tin as money put in. Pedestrians on street. Dictators; Charity Appeals; 1940s; Post Spanish Civil War; Monuments; Government; Social Services; Fund Raising;