Red Cross - Across Frontiers (1957)

International relief operations on behalf of the Hungarian population and Hungarian refugees following events in November 1956. Films produced for the European television programme of World Red Cross Day 8th May 1957. (League Film Library Catalogue, p. 55)
00:06 - Opening credits.
01:16 - Budapest uprising in October 1956: tanks in the streets, people fleeing, deaths, explosions, destruction and crowds protesting.
03:20 - Appeals and aid network are being set up and a lot of goods are shipped to Budapest from different countries around the world, such as food, material and financial aid: plasma, penicillin, antibiotics, clothes, sugar, milk, meat, etc.
04:44 - Donors are sorting, filling boxes, loading trucks, planes, boats and trains in order to take the aid to Hungary.
07:01 - Transport and delivery of aid items from October 1956.
09:17 - Borders are closed, people are trying to flee and cross the borders on foot. Aid can no longer enter Hungary.
10:05 - The International Committee of the Red Cross negotiates with the Soviet Authority and the Hungarian government for aid distribution.
12:13 - Distribution of relief items.
13:07 - Refugee center in Austria, where refugees are receiving food, clothes and nursing aid.
15:30 - Delivery of toys to children to celebrate Christmas.
16:11 - Intervention by the UNHCR to find new homes to the refugees.
16:58 - Conclusion and ending theme.
Year: 1957
Producer: IFRC, ICRC, RTS Radio télévision suisse, Georges Kuhne (Producer)
Director: François Bardet and Jean-Louis Roy
Copyright: IFRC, ICRC, RTS
Country: Austria, Hungary
Duration: 17:23 minutes
Language: English
Original format: 16mm, black & white, acetate film with optical sound and digitised in 2023. Applied noise reduction added a limiter. Slightly increased the brightness and contrast from 09:42 to 09:49.
Filename: c01190.mp4
League Film Library Catalogue No. 256, ID No. 1710, Component No. 1546
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