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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221054-03
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1942,1943,1940s
Country: Portugal
Location: Lisbon
TC Begins: 06:21:36
TC Ends: 06:30:46
Duration: 00:09:10
WWII - 1942, Portugal: Jewish Refugees In Portugal VS small passenger aircraft from vars countries on tarmac at civil airport outside Lisbon - taxiing around. Loading cargo; plane painted w/ ‘ALA Littoria S.A.’ KLM cargo trolley. Plane w/ Nazi swastika on tail. 06:23:25 EXT American Export Lines city HQ - pedestrians past; CU sign ‘American Export Lines Inc. - Johan Beckman, Agent - Passenger and Express Freight Services Lisbon-New York-Direct’; queue outside office. INT office - people buying tickets / filling out forms - woman talking to clerk. Jewish refugees ? 06:26:10 Street sign ‘Ca. Das Da Rainha’; LS town rooftops. Cattle market scenes - huge throng of people & animals - CUs traders / farmers w/ traditional headgear - soldiers among crowd. Men and women gardening outside cottage - woman hanging washing on line. EXT small cafe; INT people playing cards; man talking to two women on sofa; woman reading newspaper. People through narrow street. 06:28:45 Passenger ship ‘Serpa Pinto’ at dockside - crowds waving - ‘Serpa Pinto - Portugal’ in large letters on side of ship. Jewish refugees boarding ship - people queuing for papers - children up gangplank past stewards in dinner suits - smiling. Ship away from dock at sunset - people waving. CU ship in dock day - ‘American-Export-Lines’ in large lettering on hull - people up gangplank in BG. Children are from Poland, Czechoslovakia, Spain & Germany. WW2; Asylum Seekers; Neutral Country; Escaping War; 1940s;