Visiting prewar Athens
Creator(s)
- Mr. Larry Confino
- Martin Elias
- Sam H. Elias (Camera Operator)
Scope and Content
[Problem with film scanning at head of film reel, likely due to shrinkage or broken splice] MS, friends. They bid farewell at a train station. Large group of young children elders. A friend on a busy city street in Athens tips his hat to the camera. Cars in the BG. Sam H. Elias in dark suit walks in a paved garden, waving at the camera. His friend returns, sitting against a flowerbed. MS, Sam Elias again, smoking by a statue. He walks up the steps of a columned government building in Athens. Three Greek soldiers walk by [film transfer problem, some shots repeat]. A sailor and two other men stand by a deer’s cage in the zoo.
Note(s)
Footage from the Sam H. Elias Collection was featured in the 2016 documentary "Trezoros" directed by Larry Confino and Lawrence Russo. The film illustrates the Greek Sephardic community of Kastoria. Of the 1000 Jews who lived in Kastoria before the Holocaust, only 35 survived.
Subjects
- STREETS
- CITIES
- AUTOMOBILES
- TRAIN STATIONS
- SOLDIERS/MILITARY (GREEK)
- JEWISH LIFE (PRE-WAR)
- JEWS
- SEPHARDIC JEWS
- GREECE
Places
- Athens, Greece
Genre
- Film
- Amateur.