Devil’s Island Ex-Prisoners & others arrive Le Havre, France, ca 1939

Devil’s Island Ex-Prisoners & others arrive Le Havre, France, ca 1939 04:00:10 Ex-prisoners from Devil’s Island, French Guiana arrive back in Le Havre, France, on two-stack liner Bretagne. View toward breakwater as liner & tugs enter harbor from English Channel. LS & MS of ship & tugs. View from dock. Passengers carrying luggage down gangway. Families, men. Immigration officials in dock building. Nun & friar (?). Dock activity. Man on steps of railway, train pulling out of railroad station, waving goodbyes. 04:03:25 Prisoners leave for Devil’s Island by boat. Ferry pulling up quayside, convicts off & past Black police or soldiers. Other w/ sacks of possessions board ferry to leave. Crowded boat to freighter ship. Convicts transfer from ferry to liner. MS men wave from boat. Brief shot lighthouse & coastline. 04:04:34 Twin-engine Pan American Airlines (PAA) clipper coming in to land & crew helps docking at pier. Refueling, loading baggage, woman passenger & crew helped off. Radio mast, aerial, interior radio room with man sending morse code with telegraph key. 04:05:58 Street scenes Cayenne, French Guiana w/ horse drawn cart w/ tourists. Signs in French. Women sort mail. Men in street read notice board. Street cafe & waiter. Store sign: La Conscience. People sittting & standing on street beneath sign: L’Esperance; boy past on bicycle. Street is semi deserted. 04:06:48 Wooden shacks, man walks past in muddy street followed by dogs. Others on steps. Heavily tattooed man sits by tree reading book. Man washing clothes in street gutter; men sit lethargically. Man drinks from bottle. Men eating. Man asleep on bench. 04:07:38 Local market, men & women tending stands. Deserted street, vultures, carrion birds & dogs try to get discarded food remains. People walk on sidewalks, birds pick bones. 04:08:21 Grove of palm trees, troops seen marching thru trees. CU drilling black troops past camera. 04:08:41 Governor Chot meets military commander. Uniformed men in office looking at maps. Passenger Ships; Transportation; Pre-WWII; Guyana; Convicts; Prisoners; Soldiers; Colonialism;