POW’s Wait To Go Home (1956)

Lydda, Israel. SV. Wounded Egyptian prisoners, one being carried on stretcher and being placed into an ambulance to be taken to Lydda Airport for conveyance to Cairo. CU. Israeli sign on ambulance - David’s Star. SV. Convoy of ambulances leaving the hospital with the wounded. GV. Lydda Airport. SV. Ambulance arriving. LV. People around the ambulances also waiting for the planes to arrive from Cairo to take them away. CU. Interior of the ambulance showing two prisoners blindfolded as they were not allowed to leave the ambulances until the planes arrived. SV. Top shot, Doctor Louis Guillard, local representative of the international Red Cross, addressing the correspondents (2 shots). SV. Egyptian prisoner with amputated leg being wheeled in pushchair back to hospital. SV. Interior, Egyptian prisoners of war waiting on their hospital beds (2 shots). (.) (Title scene D.) FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FA