Eichmann Trial -- Session 70 -- Screening of films
Creator(s)
- J. Jonilowicz (Camera Operator)
- Milton Fruchtman (Producer)
- Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive
- Leo Hurwitz (Director)
- J. Kalach (Camera Operator)
- Rolf M. Kneller (Camera Operator)
- Emil Knebel (Camera Operator)
- F. Csaznik (Camera Operator)
- Capital Cities Broadcasting Corporation (Producer)
Biographical History
Emil Knebel was a cinematographer known for Andante (2010), Adam (1973), and Wild Is My Love (1963). He was one of the cameramen who recorded daily coverage of the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem (produced by Capital Cities Broadcasting Corp and later held academic positions in Israel and New York teaching filmmaking at universities. Refer to CV in file.
Scope and Content
Session 70. Cuts between the film footage entered as evidence and shots of Eichmann in the courtroom watching the footage. 00:01:06 The scene opens on the courtroom, there is no sound. 00:02:58 Eichmann is brought in. 00:06:09 Film footage is shown of people walking through a camp covered in snow (Auschwitz). Cut to Eichmann then back to footage of a crowd walking through the camp; inmates looking through barbed wire; another shot of the camp covered in snow. Eichmann in courtroom. Film: building with scaffolding around it, snow, train, industrial town. 00:07:17 Aerial shot pans across snow covered camp. Blue prints of Auschwitz. 00:07:38 Eichmann in courtroom. Blue prints of gas chambers. Camp. Many people lying in wooden bunk-beds. Shot of Auschwitz entrance -"Arbeit Macht Frei". People in wooden beds (repeated shot). Eichmann. Woman with rug around her. 00:09:50 Shots of photo album. 00:10:14 Footage of inmates through barbed wire fence, close-ups. Man speaking to camera, dead bodies, child and woman stood facing the camera. People walking past the camera, being carried. Eichmann. 00:11:49 People being asked questions, reading a piece of paper. 00:12:55 Person on stretcher. Horses and carts going past. 00:13:13 Cut back to courtroom, Eichmann. Return to film footage of men carrying the ill. Children walking past with nuns. 00:14:43 Children showing their tattooed numbers. 00:15:18 Dead body. People digging, skeletons. Gas chambers and Zyklon B. 00:16:03 Bodies lined up. 00:16:11 Footage of a group of men sitting around a table talking. Mass graves, soldiers approaching it, gallows with inmates explaining how it was used. 00:17:42 Bags of human hair. Piles of human hair, human teeth and pliers, spectacles, clothes, children's clothes are held up by Russian soldiers, shoes, toothbrushes, suitcases. 00:20:40 Mass graves, people crying, procession with brass band, nuns, coffins carried. Many coffins lined up and buried. 00:22:32 Man being inspected by a doctor; sick children being inspected. 00:23:29 Cuts out.
Note(s)
See official transcripts, published in "The Trial of Adolf Eichmann", Vol. I-V, State of Israel, Ministry of Justice, Jerusalem, 1994. Also available online at the Nizkor Project. *Blurred for a few minutes at 00:22:32, some drop out is evident in the picture.
Subjects
- EICHMANN, ADOLF
- AUSCHWITZ
- COURTS/COURTROOMS
- JUDGES
- FILMS
- TRIALS
- SURVIVORS
- WINTER
- WOMEN
- EICHMANN TRIAL
- CHILDREN
- SURVIVORS (JEWISH)
- ZYKLON B
- CONCENTRATION CAMPS (LIBERATION)
Places
- Jerusalem, Israel
Genre
- Film
- Unedited.