Duplicate footage on Film ID 301, Story 613. Viewed with Radu Ioanid 3/8/02. Description edited, as Radu determined that only the scene following the intertitle on Gypsies is relevant to that group. Radu commented that these are nomadic Gypsies, who were among the Gypsy groups deported to Transnistria in the spring and summer of 1942, under Antonescu. The earlier scenes are of peasants.
Consists mostly of views of social and economic conditions in Italy, Hungary, and Rumania. With English intertitles. Part 3 shows activities at the Romanian oil fields at Ploesti and Moreni. Vendors of drinks/fruit: MS of men and women seated on slabs with posts all about them. Next to them are baskets of fruit and pails. Wagon with log on it passes in front of them. MCU of same group as woman walks by with basket. MS, 2 men with pole that has basket at each end are selling to a third man. One man has pole on shoulder, other has pole on ground. Man buying fruit having his bag weighed. 11:44:32 to 11:45:58 Romanian Sinti. Intertitle:"Gypsies of Romani". MS woman in kerchief doing wash in what looks like carved out wooden log which is sitting on wagon cart. Tents in BG. Two women standing, woman sitting with child to left, man on seat in front of stove or fire, another woman on right at pile of cut branches. Man and several woman smoking cigarettes. Oil derricks in distant background. Romanian oil fields of Balcoi and Bustenari.
Romanian oil fields; Roma/Sinti in the area