Sands of Sorrow - Palestine Arab Refugees
Sands of Sorrow - Palestine Arab Refugees
Produced by the Council for Relief of Palestine Arab Refugees. Refugees, refugee camps, poverty. Relief workers, distribution of supplies & food to Palestinians. UNICEF. Palestine Arab children. Families living in tents.
Sands of Sorrow - Palestine Arab Refugees
Introduction by a woman who has just visited Palestine.
Sands of Sorrow - Palestine Arab Refugees
Credits
Sands of Sorrow - Palestine Arab Refugees
Titles read, "Since 1948, 750000 homeless Arab people have existed in tents & caves in the desert wastes encircling the Holy Land, their former home. These are the first motion pictures of the Palestine Arab Refugees. All of these scenes are actual and unrehearsed."
Sands of Sorrow - Palestine Arab Refugees
LS of tents at Palestine Arab Refugee camp. People hang laundry at camp. Various shots of tents and people moving about the camp. Woman holds child.
Sands of Sorrow - Palestine Arab Refugees
Truck of supplies driving towards camera. People line up around truck for distribution of supplies. Narrator states that this camp is on the Gaza Strip. Crowds grow. Many of them are children.
Sands of Sorrow - Palestine Arab Refugees
Refugees line up at a desk. Egyptian soldiers check their paper work to determine what they can get. Soldier sorts through blankets. A portion of rice is poured into a blanket to be carried back to the refugee camp. Egyptian soldiers check the refugee s paper work and hand out supplies.
Sands of Sorrow - Palestine Arab Refugees
Egyptian soldiers load a truck with sacks of grain - food for the Palestine Arab refugee camps. Large sacks of food sent from the United Nations are brought into warehouses. Pan across crowds of Palestine Arab refugees behind the barbed wire fence of the camp. People line up to receive food donations.
Sands of Sorrow - Palestine Arab Refugees
Palestine Arab refugees hand over their registration cards. Man filling out a card. Man hold open a sack with workers fill it with grain. Men walk out with their sacks of rations.
Sands of Sorrow - Palestine Arab Refugees
CU of woman UN relief worker. Barrel is rolled off a truck. It is marked UNICEF, probably contains powdered milk. Looking through a door opening in a warehouse as supplies are unloaded. Workers mix water into powdered milk. CU of milk being poured. Milk poured into jugs. Palestine Arab refugee camp children are lined up to get milk. Workers fill jugs & give them to children. CU of children drinking from metal mugs.
Sands of Sorrow - Palestine Arab Refugees
Men at Palestine Arab refugee camp sit around fire, cooking a pot of broth. CU of hands stirring a pot. Woman in her tent mends some clothes.
Sands of Sorrow - Palestine Arab Refugees
Crowds walk through Palestine Arab refugee camp. Narrator says most of the refugees are Christian Arabs. Lebanese Priest speaks to refugees.
Sands of Sorrow - Palestine Arab Refugees
Woman tends a small garden in the Palestine Arab refugee camp.
Sands of Sorrow - Palestine Arab Refugees
Lebanese Priest at the refugee camp with a group of children gathered around him. He hands something to the children.
Sands of Sorrow - Palestine Arab Refugees
POV driving through the desert hills leading to Palestine. Olive groves. Establish shot of Bethlehem. LS of Church of the Nativity. Palestine Arab refugee camp outside of Bethlehem. Shots of buildings in Bethlehem. Church of All Nations.
Sands of Sorrow - Palestine Arab Refugees
Orphanage for homeless Palestine Arab refugees. Woman with a young girl. Girls sitting at long benches doing their schoolwork.
Sands of Sorrow - Palestine Arab Refugees
Palestine Arab Orphan boys work in the garden. Boys playing in the yard. Rows of orphan children eating outdoors.
Sands of Sorrow - Palestine Arab Refugees
Baby crying. Children crammed into beds at the Palestine Arab orphanage.
Sands of Sorrow - Palestine Arab Refugees
Palestine Arab refugees, women at the orphanage make clothes. Women sew, use sewing machines. Women fold & sort through clothes. Young boy putting on new clothes.
Sands of Sorrow - Palestine Arab Refugees
Jerusalem. Sign for Woodworking & Shoe Makers. Palestine Arab refugee men make shoes. Sign for Plumber. Refugee man and small boys make tin cups. Sign for Carpentry Workshop. Men & young boys woodworking.
Sands of Sorrow - Palestine Arab Refugees
POV traveling down desert road. LS road signs. CU of road sign Jerusalem and Dead Sea . Deserted landscape. Maybe the Dead Sea in the distance. LS of Mount of Temptation. MS of Jordan River.
Sands of Sorrow - Palestine Arab Refugees
Overlooking the city of Amman, Jordan. Two men, working for the United Nations stand near a car and check a map. Amman is the main supply station for the UN relief efforts.
Sands of Sorrow - Palestine Arab Refugees
Ruins of Roman amphitheater in Amman, Jordan. A few shots of the tents set up by Palestine Arab refugees in the ruins. Man coming out of a shack he has put together. One woman cooking, another holds a baby outside of a shelter they carved into the side of a rock face. Man tends a very meager garden.
Sands of Sorrow - Palestine Arab Refugees
Huge crowd of Palestine Arab refugee children at an outdoor school. Pan across heads of children. CU of boys singing. Group of girls in class. Crowds of girls run together towards camera.
Sands of Sorrow - Palestine Arab Refugees
Torn tents at a Palestine Arab refugee camp. LS of row of tents, lots of sand and dust blowing. CU of jugs being filled with water. Women walk with large square containers of water balanced on their heads.
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Men fill spray tanks with DDT. Palestine Arab refugee tents are sprayed with DDT in an attempt to control outbreaks of malaria.
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Palestine Arab refugee mother sits next to a sick child inside a tent. CU of child.
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Two Palestine Arab children sitting on the ground. They appear to be malnourished with distended stomachs.
Sands of Sorrow - Palestine Arab Refugees
Huge crowd of Palestine Arab refugees wait for vaccines. Kids receive disease inoculations. People waiting for their turn to see a doctor.
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Sick men in infirmary tent.
Sands of Sorrow - Palestine Arab Refugees
Islamic man praying outside tent at Palestine Arab refugee camp.
Sands of Sorrow - Palestine Arab Refugees
Sick children in bed.
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Group of Palestine Arab refugee men walk through the street with a body on a stretcher. The person may be deceased.
Sands of Sorrow - Palestine Arab Refugees
Palestine Arab refugee infants receive medical attention from relief doctors. Doctor examines a baby. Nurse gives penicillin shot to baby. Nurse helps a mother with her newborn baby.
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CU of Palestine Arab refugee children.
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Woman speaks to the camera about the relief efforts being carried out by United Nations.
Sands of Sorrow - Palestine Arab Refugees
Tents at refugee camp. Refugees crowded around a truck waiting for food distribution. Food being given to people.
Sands of Sorrow - Palestine Arab Refugees
Woman speaks to the camera about the relief efforts being carried out by United Nations. She encourages people to make donations.
Sands of Sorrow - Palestine Arab Refugees
Titles: "There's the story of three-quarters of a million people. Theirs is a humanitarian problem. Their plight is desperate. If they are to survive, relief on a far greater scale that now being extended must be forthcoming as soon as possible."