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News Review of 1948 Gandhi Assassinated Red Scare Palestine Conflict Freedom Train Xd6037 (1948)

1948 · Short film · 10 min

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Produced for the home market and sold in catalogs and in camera stores, this "News Revise of 1948" newsreel was made by Official Films. It is narrated by Ed Herlihy. Text card with “Gandhi Assassinated!” appears on the screen at 0:32. Ghandi is shown on screen at 0:39. The narrator explains that he was slain by a fanatic at 0:42. Ghandi’s coffin is shown being led down a street at 1:04. The funeral pyre where Gandhi’s body will be burned is shown at 1:10. Another title card with “Warfare in Palestine” is displayed at 1:20. Flyover Israel is shown at 1:29. A map is shown, displaying Tel Aviv, Jaffa, Haifa, and Jerusalem at 1:31. Kings Ibn-Saud of Arabia, King Farouk of Egypt, and King Abdullah of Trans-Jordan are shown at 1:43-45. Israeli Premier David Ben-Gurion is shown with his cabinet, planning resistance at 1:57. The capture of Haifa is shown at 2:09. Immigrant ship with Zionists is displayed at 2:13. A third title card “Palestine Conflict!” is displayed at 2:28. Review of women in the Palestinian army is shown at 2:35. UN observers with a white flag of truce are shown at 3:00. Count Folke Bernadotte is shown at 3:16. The fourth section of the news review, “Crisis in German Capital!” starts at 3:23. Allied control council is shown during a meeting at 3:30. General Lucius D. Clay, representing the United States, representing Britain, General Bryan Robertson, and General Kernig of France are shown at 3:38. The Russian commander in Berlin Marshal Vasily Sokolovsky is shown…

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Running time
10 minutes
Collection
Ephemeral Films

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