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Palestine: British Military, Blast Aftermath; Grounded Ship Overloaded w/ Immigrants & To Shore

Reel Number: 221403-06

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1947

Country: Israel,Palestine

Location: Haifa,Jerusalem

TC Begins: 04:06:20

TC Ends: 04:12:12

Duration: 00:05:52

Palestine: British Military, Blast Aftermath; Grounded Ship Overloaded w/ Immigrants & To Shore ca Haifa Men boarding train; sandbagged military observation post w/ railroad behind, pan to convoy of British Army trucks arriving thru street of town. 04:06:30 European women & men off. Army convoy around hairpin turn up hillside road; Arab shepherd & grazing goats. European family w/ small boy on RR platform; line of Europeans outside building. Activity on station platform, food queue, man waves from P.R. (Palestine Railroad) car. Soldiers in engine w/ engineers; crowded train leaving past camera. 04:07:16 Looking out thru revolving door. 04:07:19 Soldiers carry stretcher w/ wounded, load in military ambulance truck. Patrolling empty hilly street. Tracked personnel carrier past. 04:07:44 Bulldozer at bomb blast site, soldiers & people watching; man climbs ladder to men on top floor. 04:07:56 Man down ladder w/ pipe in mouth. 04:08:01 Demolished Officers Club in Jerusalem behind military vehicles, Jewish Agency building in BG. MS men inspecting blast site. Short woman by tall British army officer on street. People lined up, searched by military & passing thru wire gate (security zone nicknamed “Bevingrads”). 04:08:23 Grounded ship overcrowded w/ Jewish European refugees onboard near shore, army on beach w/ soldiers watching. Navy ships beyond & tug attempting to pull it off. Bow of ship w/ many people on deck. View from small boat. Hebrew banner “Haim Arlozorov” hanging from ship’s stack. Helmeted men by ship rail. Soldiers carry sick woman on stretcher along dock packed w/ immigrants. Medic walking w/ woman along dock. 04:10:43 Soldiers alongside & onboard ship. Overloaded grounded ship w/ landing craft alongside & soldiers on shore watching. 04:11:00 Mandate (?) police as bus passes in Haifa streets. CU Barclays Bank Dominion exterior. 04:11:15 Soldiers beside broken glass on pavement from blast. Men inspect destroyed office w/ collapsed ceiling & wall. 04:11:36 Completely filled landing craft w/ immigrants to dock. CU people on board, MS up walkway to dock. Soldiers watching. Post-WWII British Mandate; Jewish Immigration; refugees; Post-WW2; NOTE: Ship Haim Arlozorov arrived Israel ca 28Feb47; but sent to Cyprus.

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