Runnymede Park Jewish refugees 221260-02.mp4 | Footage Farm

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[Runnymede Park off Port de Bouc, France ca Aug47 ]
Three ships outside harbor entrance.  Runnymede Park and probably Ocean Vigour & Empire Rival seen from boat.  Army truck & people ashore; stacks of boxes & suppleis w/ men loading them into landing craft from truck.  Soldiers or police watch.  Landing craft w/ supplies.  CU inspecting note or letter in small cheese box.  French soldiers or police on dock.  Small boat & men in suits; and others aboard small boat leaving dock.  
Small power boat out, CU of man in pith helmet between others.  Runnymede Park from small boat & landing craft w/ supplies approaching it.  Two small boats circling it.  Woman on ship's deck by rail.  Men in pith helmets boarding from gangway alongside as women watch.  Men w/ packs crowd into ship.  Emaciated man carried on stretcher & woman helped off ship (?).  
CU bow of ship w/ Runnymede Park.  CU Several people on ship waiving, man in pith helmet waving, woman shielding eyes in wind.  People on small boat & man taking pictures of ship in distance.  Journalists writing notes; emaciated man lying on boat floor.  People on shore watching.  People walk ashore w/ bags of possesions; men watching.  Woman helped by woman & man.  Young man has papers checked by soldier & turned back.
Night & people boarding Runnymede Park.  Men staning looking; ambulance leaves. 
Small boat on water around hull of Runnymede Park.  Side of beef into small boat.
Note:  Ships had been refused landing in Palestine by British, then returned to France, finally went to Hamburg where British forcibly unloaded passengers.
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