 Hello? Just before the film we are providing that we are with Caronea Fenoy also and Alvar, Martínez Vidal and they are here in the conference. So they are the experts of this film in different sites and they are going to say two words about the film because the film is of course a very old film of propaganda and they need a presentation of the research and the original also of the films. And Caronea as you know she is working in the national coptempo in Madrid as you could see but also she is a researcher as she did a master degree about Thuniga who was the director of this film and Alvar of course it is a very important and famous historical medicine professor from the University of Valencia but she did a lot of research on medical approaches and about this hospital in France during the Second World War also after the Second World War and just giving the floor to them to say two words very short to the film because after the film we have to run away for the downstairs. There is a little bit rain. Killlow bring us the rain. And there will be the tonight gala. Ok, thank you. So let me... Is it ok? I think it's working. Ok, thank you. So let me start by saying that this is in my opinion a very rare propaganda film which was premiered in Chicago in 1947 and both the film and its director which appears here as Thuniga have remained almost unknown for many decades even if at the time it received the support from transnational propaganda networks including not only international relief organizations and NGOs but also the support of a high number of international and renowned intellectual artists like Pablo Picasso depicted in the film and many Hollywood artists as well. I would like just to mention that Thuniga is also one of the pioneers in the scientific film photography in Spain and very recently it's been discovered that he kept in secret a photographic collection very interesting for researchers on remembrance including a series of wonderful pictures by Walter Router. It is thanks to my colleague Alvaro Maitínez that we can see this film again. This is a film on the Spanish Republican exiles in France which are depicted as the first world fighters against fascists but most unfairly we can see how these survivors are suffering hardships of every kind. It presents a clear message on why the audience had to support the Spanish Republicans in exiles because they were the big losers in spite of their great sacrifices fighting first against Franco and immediately after against the Nazi regime at the end of the second world war II they were the most neglected of all the refugee groups in the world at that time. The film shows some overwhelming scenes on the medical care offered in France by the international relief organizations to the Spanish survivors and was addressed to the Canadian and mainly the American audience as the producers of the film were the two NGOs the Unitarian Service Committee with headquarters in Boston but also operated in France and in other countries the joint anti-fascist refugee committee chaired by Dr. Edor Barsky who was a sergeant in New York and a former medical chief of the Lincoln Brigade during the Spanish Civil War. I would like to highlight that Barsky and also his secret report were the first victims of the American witch hunt by the House of Anti-American Activities Committee as they refused to disclose the list of donors to the Spanish anti-fascist refugees to which they have provided support. The film is in the framework of a proper campaign by the president of the Spanish Republican Regime in exile which is depicted here as well José Jirar with the aim to obtain to raise funds and also to obtain support against Franco and Guillermo López that was his original name had worked as a filmmaker for the Spanish Communist Party newsreels and other newsreels for local authorities and as the war ended he was sent to several French concentration camps and cooperated with the French resistance but he managed to escape just before being deported to Germany he settled down for a few years in France and then he fled to Argentina and went to hiding under the name of Guillermo Suniga just to end with this the film is presented by Quentin Reynolds he was an American journalist and a writer a declarer enemy of the Nazi regime he was a very well known face for the audience of this film as he had star many newsreels as a war correspondent of the second civil war thank you Morales in the middle of this documentary there are some sequences only a couple of minutes devoted to a small hospital in Toulouse, France which was then a hospital because that was the name of the street where it was located of course no relation to the capital of Poland originally in the fall of 1944 it was a clinic for the Spanish guerrillas of the French resistance against the Nazi invaders but with the end of the war this center was transformed into a civil hospital open to the Spanish republican refugees in Toulouse thanks to a team of health workers also refugees led by a Catalan doctor Josep Torrubia the documentary shows the medical care that the hospital despite its painful conditions offered to the survivors returning from the Nazi concentration camps to the south west of France the humanitarian aid provided from the North American to that precarious hospital the largest stocks of penicillin than a very expensive and scarred drug in France so doctors working at that Toulouse hospital systematically reported to their counterparts in the United States their clinical observations resulting from the administration of penicillin in patients who had infectious diseases mainly venereal and tuberculosis finally it should be noted that the head of this article department of this hospital was a woman Doctora Maria Gomez who during the Spanish Civil War had worked in a military hospital in Barcelona nevertheless during the screening of the documentary when she is performing surgical operation you may notice that her name is replaced by that of the director of the hospital Drubia in order to make it more acceptable to the American public next you have the opportunity to watch this documentary thanks many thanks