Trims; outtakes from Jonny's Gang comedy film
Creator(s)
- Walter Hausner (Camera Operator)
- Elizabeth Hausner
Biographical History
Walter Hausner (April 24, 1914-February 5, 2003) was a member of the Austrian amateur film society in Vienna. His father, Ferdinand (1883-1957) owned a firm for fabrics and fashion articles with factories in Vienna and Jihlava, Czechoslovakia with business partner Siegfried Furst. Walter’s mother, Wilhelmina Bloch, died from cancer in 1937. Walter and Ferdinand managed to leave Vienna together just before the plebiscite in March 1938 on a plane which was brought down in Berlin. The Nazis required Ferdinand to supply an inventory of his assets. His friend and fashion designer, Claire Rennai, had a visa to go to the United States and married Ferdinand to help him get out of Austria. Walter made it to England where he had planned to establish another factory for the family textile firm. He was interned as an enemy alien. Walter later served in the British Army, where he met a singer, Irene Jones (1921-2014) performing for the troops. They married and emigrated to the New York region in 1948.
Scope and Content
Reel contains quick, unrelated trims and cuts filmed by Walter Hausner. WH logo (reversed). Side view of man in dark sweater vest, observing the tennis game from above. VAR quick cuts of athletes in the tennis match. Side/close view of woman, with athletes and court in BG. More shots of the spectators, some smoking. Two athletes walk up the stands towards the camera. Soccer team, playing and posing for the camera. The Hausner friends ski outdoors in winter. Czech troops in uniform with weapons parade the streets in Prague, spectators with umbrellas, shop signs, cobbled streets/tram lines. A series of outtakes from Hausner’s “Jonny’s Gang” movie interspersed with unrelated scenes. From Jonny’s Gang: men in undergarments, women walking along the sidewalk, and the brawl. Tennis. More of Jonny’s Gang. The friends of Hausner ski, tall pines. More outtakes from Jonny’s Gang: the beach fight and saving the victim. 01:04:09 Woman poses for camera outdoors on a ping-pong table. Crowd at riverbank, seen from behind. Woman walks her dog on a city street, CUs of another young woman. More skiing, falling like dominos, and snowball fights. 01:05:36 Street views of the Pantheon in Paris. Film ends 01:05:43
Subjects
- SPORTS/GAMES
- JEWISH LIFE (PRE-WAR)
- FAMILIES
- ACTORS
- AUSTRIA
- WINTER
Places
- Vienna, Austria
- Paris, France
- Prague, Czechoslovakia
Genre
- Amateur.
- Film