Hard Core, The

The Hard Core International Relief Organization Presents; Photographed & Directed by Arthur Zegart; written by Patricia Zegart; narrated by Walter Abel. United Nations Office of Information. 14:24:57 Abel to camera about what the Hard Core means, refugees etc. Man running along wall, Displaced Person, leaving DP camp in Germany. Another man on crutches down steps of brick building & waves goodbye as first man boards back of trucks w/ others. Train w/ passengers wearing tags looking at camera, arrives alongside ship w/ large International Relief Organization banner. Boarding ship w/ suitcases & backpacks. ship leaving. 14:26:40 Man on crutches missing foot turns & returns to DP camp building where he looks at posters; enters door saying Rejected & Deferred; IRO Counselor. Blind, old, sick seen in CU. Kids on balcony with tuberculosis; families on mattresses under orchard trees. 14:27:57 Sign: Neuburg Vocational Training & Rehabilitation Center Entrance. Physical Therapists working w/ crippled children & adults exercising on floor mats in gym. Some w/o arms & legs walking, playing basketball. Man w/ artificial legs walks out door. Men w/ one arm etc. gardening; bookbinding; women operating knitting machines. Tailor. Blind man at loom; armless woman weaving; men in machine shop; welding. 14:31:29 Netherlands Mission interviewing for relocation. Paperwork signed. Sweden taking some TB cases looking at x-rays. 14:32:04 Ship Galilah w/ Israeli flag & unloading passengers on stretchers into ambulances. French interviewing aged. Old people in Denmark knitting, making crafts. Children in Denmark after being cured of TB of the bone. Blind boarding plane in Munich & taking off for Norway; arrival by bus & lessons in classroom. Blind learning braille in Norway. Learning trades. Doctors treating eyes; hospital bed & doctor w/ teenage patient after restoring sight in one eye. Visiting w/ Norwegians. 14:35:32 Those left behind waiting in IRO center. Old, children, handicapped. “Will they be forgotten?” 14:36:02 Walter Abel to camera. J. Donald Kingsley interviewed. Post-WW2; Post-WWII Refugees; Disabilities; Disabled; 1950s;