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1939 FRANCE: Catalan refugees and soldiers escape to France
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2:05Now PlayingDate: 13th February 1939
Location: PYRENEES, FRANCE
Source: Reuters Historical News Collection: BRITISH PARAMOUNT NEWSREEL (REUTERS)
SLATE INFORMATION: Franco Troops Reach French Frontier
FRANCE: Pyrenees:
Man turning handle to raise frontier barrier / lorry and gun on limber and along road / refugee-soldiers / man with bandaged feet / wounded feet along road / man with bandaged eye and man on crutches / men with bowler / 2 soldiers hugging each other / unshaven refugee-soldier crying / unshaven old man pan to rolling cigarette / refugee kids playing / refugee child with doll / soldier with wounded arm in framework / wounded feet / nurse feeds man / French soldiers and insurgents face across bridge / insurgents salute pan up to insurgent flag on stick
Insurgent officer walks to french officer and salutes / French officer salutes and shakes hands with insurgent officer / French officer talking to insurgent officer / Insurgent flag on Spanish side of street...pan down to five guards / French and insurgents face to face on border / French pan to insurgents face to face..lined up.
GOOD SCENES.
Lorry & gun away down road / refugees assembled / refugees being registered and writing in book / two refugees / man with arm in framework/ lines of guns
Spanish Civil War 1936-1939; Exiles; Military - Active; Spain
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