Escaped prisoners from French Guiana's penal colony are told by police at Port of Spain that they have to go somewhere else
Title Card: "Flee Devil's Island" / Title "Port-of-Spain, Trinidad" superimposed over pan shot of Port of Spain, Trinidad / boat arrives with seven men / CU beaching the craft / CU men pushing boat ashore / refugees shaking hands with local people / MS two men carry exhausted man off boat to shore / CU elderly man takes drink of water / Close pan of escaped prisoners sharing banana / CU tilt down of tattoo on man's chest / CU words tattooed on man's back "Born to suffer" / PAN prisoner helped into the constable's office / CU local police, prisoners who have come to this hospitable port for nourishment and rest, only to be told that they must go elsewhere / man giving money to the prisoners, shaking hands with them / little boat pulls away from dock / MS prisoners on boat being towed, waving their hats / WS broad horizon before them / Note: exact day not known
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Editorial #:
2217881136
Collection:
Sherman Grinberg Library
Date created:
January 01, 1938
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License type:
Rights-ready
Release info:
Not released.ÌýMore information
Clip length:
00:01:25:23
Location:
Trinidad, Spain
Mastered to:
QuickTime 10-bit ProRes 422 (HQ) HD 1920x1080 23.98p
Originally shot on:
35mm B/W Neg
Source:
Sherman Grinberg Library
Object name:
sr006649_01_01
- 1930-1939,
- Adult,
- Archival,
- Arrival,
- Banana,
- Black And White,
- Carrying,
- Crisis,
- Currency,
- Day,
- Devil's Island - French Guiana,
- Drinking,
- Emigration and Immigration,
- Escaping,
- Exhaustion,
- Film - Moving Image,
- French Guiana,
- French Overseas Territory,
- HD Format,
- Handshake,
- Hat,
- Healthy Eating,
- Horizon,
- Horizontal,
- Law,
- Leaving,
- Men,
- Nautical Vessel,
- Newsreel,
- Office,
- People,
- Police Force,
- Port Of Spain,
- Prisoner,
- Produced Segment,
- Real Time Video,
- Refugee,
- Resting,
- Senior Adult,
- Senior Men,
- Sharing,
- Shooting - Crime,
- Spain,
- Tattoo,
- Text,
- Tilt Down,
- Video with Sound,
- Water,
- Waving - Gesture,