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  1. Farming, church service, soccer, orchestra, theater at Camp Westerbork

    MS, horse, pasture. CU, feeding horse. Little boy sitting on horse without saddle. WS, horse running through field. CU, sheep. 02:30:11 Moving train, shot from inside, piles of bricks in open wagons. Farming: young man plowing by hand. Horse-pulled plower. Pan of group of young men and women in black uniforms preparing soil for seeds, using cylindrical wooden tool. Women with yutta bags around their necks, filled with flower bulbs, throwing bulbs into pepared holes. CU, slow motion of working with wooden rower. 02:36:02: WS, same group of people resting, laying down in meadow. Pan, people r...

  2. Schema of inmates, soccer, train at Camp Westerbork

    Schema with camps and numbers of inmates. (**This most likely refers to where Jews were deported to from Westerbork. The numbers closely correspond to those in the Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, p. 1646): EINGANG 103.376; BERGEN BELS 3029; THERESIENSTADT 2470; NACH DEM OSTEN 91.545; INTERNIERURG 350; LAGER VUGHT 897. 03:02:30 Horse-pulled plowing tool, farm animals, preparing soil for seeding. 03:03:12 Slate: ...ALSO JETZT KOMMT...AH...SCHAUN SIE SICH'S MAL AN! Man and woman carrying large wooden board, unfinished barrack in BG. 03:03:35 Soccer match. [VQ deteriorates: jumpy, unstable "doub...

  3. Choir, church service, shoemakers, machinery at Camp Westerbork

    Slate: GEVAERT CINE-FILM. WS of outdoor wooden sign: INDUSTRIE, VERWALTUNG, HAUPTMAGAZIN, KLEIDER KAMMER. 03:12:15 WS choir, children and adults singing. Shots of conductor and piano player [VQ: washed out, unfocused]. 03:13:41 CU of two young girls singing in the choir with Star of David on one of girls' blouse. Christian religious service, wooden cross in front of minister dressed in black cloak with white collar. Two burning candles. Forced religious conversion? 03:14:25 Pan from minister and choir to room filled with people attending the choir performance. Minister reading from Bible? M...

  4. Camp Amersfoort, Netherlands

    MS Group of thin men with shaved heads in a poorly lit hall, German officers walking by [VQ: extremely poor, grainy, hardly visible]. Large pile of ropes, inmates de-tangling ropes. Men look malnourished and sick. Pan of men in white uniforms, Nazi officers, and people in suits (some are Red Cross officials) standing next to barbed wire. They are posing for camera, joking, and smiling. CU of inmates standing very still, looking exhausted and thin with patched numbers on their camp uniforms and armbands: CONTR AB [VQ: deteriorates again, jumpy, film appears damaged]. 03:26:33 Inmates cleanin...

  5. Jewish Ghetto in Amsterdam

    WS street with large street sign: JUDEN VIERTEL JOODSCHE WIJK. Another sign hanging sideways on a building: FUR WEHRMACHT VERBOTEN. DER KOMMANDANT DER STADT AMSTERDAM (Nazi headquarters in Amsterdam). Street scenes, well dressed man riding a bicycle. 03:32:01 CU of street sign: JUDENSTRASSE JOODSCHESTRAAT. People and children on street, some with Star of David on clothing. Woman pushing baby carriage, streetcar passing by sign: JUDEN VIERTEL JOODSCHE WIJK. Girls with Star of David on their coats eating ice cream. 03:32:39 MS open market with sign: TIJDENS MARKT VOOR JUDEN VERBODEN. Crowd of...

  6. Fundraising newsreel for postwar rehabilitation in the Netherlands

    Volkshertsel Amsterdam, 1945. Dutch newsreel containing retrospective footage from throughout WWII, aimed at inciting the Dutch public to give money to support government postwar rehabilitation programs. Narration of the misery of war, accompanied by scenes of people pushing their belongings in the street, soldiers scrambling, burned out buildings, and blindfolded corpses. A train arriving, followed by men walking out of the station under a Dutch flag, changes the tone to the present, and scenes outline various government programs ("Joodische Ontvangst Commissie"-- "Jewish Reception Committ...

  7. Dutch newsreel

    Title: "NATO Berlin-Toen en Nu...?" Aerial view of Berlin, busy streets and promenades, well-dressed people in cafes, Brandenburg Gate, streetcars, group of children with school bags on their backs cross street. 03:38:58 Explosions, ruins, Nazi monument with sign: "Unsere Mauern brachen aber unsere Herzen nicht." (no sound from this point). Rising Nazi flag, parade at Brandenburg Gate, smiling women carrying small Nazi flags, German soldiers marching, large crowds, man attaching Nazi flag to storefront, Nazi banner around truck, ruins with flags hanging above, woman puts sign on top of ruin...

  8. German victories in East before invasion of W. Europe

    Reel 2: Vehicles move on an autobahn. British troops parade and drill. British recruits join up. Hitler reviews German troops. War material rolls from a German factory. Hitler rides through Vienna and across the Czech border. German troops and tanks parade. German refugees flee Polish oppression. Hitler speaks in the Reichstag. Panzer units invade Poland. Hitler looks through an artillery periscope. German railroads transport war material. Newspaper headlines proclaim the war. German naval units cruise off Norway, paratroops land in Norway. German planes fly over Norwegian mountains. Hitler...

  9. Truman and Berlin Conference

    President Truman on board the Navy ship Augusta enroute to Berlin Conference. Casual shots of Truman waving to a crowd in Antwerp. Truman on parade in Europe. Truman getting on plane, various shots of plane taking off and landing. Meeting of Truman and military leaders to discuss the primary goal of winning the war in Japan. Parades and processions of British Army and Navy. Discussion of Cairo Declaration. AVs of war ravaged Berlin. [Nazi footage-Hitler addressing crowds at 1930's Nazi rallies]. Truman raises the flag of victory over Europe. Various shots of American soldiers and civilians ...

  10. FDR speaks

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 7, No. 327, Part 1. Release date, 02/11/1935. Roosevelt, wearing a bowtie, reads script in front of camera. Shot of boy scouts huddled around radio in uniforms (also shot from inside the radio looking out). CU of boy scout, VS of scouts grouped together. On the occasion of the National Scouting Convention to be held in Washington, DC. Roosevelt invites scouts from other countries to attend the convention, speaks of scouting as an activity that goes beyond barriers of "race or creed," an important activity in all civilized countries.

  11. Bookburning; filming of Britain's books for safety

    (01:27:22) Part 3, "We Guard Britain's Books." 01:27:31 Berlin bookburning. Crowds at night, burning pyre of books, people tossing books onto the pyre [May 13, 1933 is date given by narrator.] Staged scenes of German book title pages (including H.G. Wells) being stamped with a swastika (swastika is reversed image). 01:27:50 AVs of England, aftermath of Nazi firebomb raids. CUs of books. VS of archivists photographing books on microfilm in England for shipment to the US. VS, crates of microfilmed books being loaded onto a freighter. VS, librarians at Library of Congress in Washington, DC cat...

  12. Book burning; Hitler & high Nazi officials

    Propaganda film about the background of World War II (Orientation Film No. 1). Opening shot, AV Hoover Dam. CUs of New York Times newspaper headlines regarding The League of Nations, Tariff Act, Isolationism and Prohibition. Narrator compares free democratic system to the Nazi regime. 01:30:28 Books freely read in USA, including Mein Kampf. 01:30:34 Scenes of German bookburnings in Berlin. Optical mix of flames with CUs of banned books, including Heinrich Heine, Remarque, Hemingway, Thomas Mann, and Mendelssohn music, to 01:30:54 . EXT of a Gothic style church, INT of Church, boys choir sin...

  13. Hitler comes to power

    Title: "Herbst 1932". Reports on activities and policies of the Nazis in Germany 1921-1933 (poor sound quality, fades in and out). Title: "Hitler's First Speech as Chancellor 30 January 1933". Title: "Goering, Named Prussian Minister of Interior by Hitler, Outlines His Program February 1933." Goering seated, speaks to camera, outlines program. Title: "Election Day in Bavaria, 5 March 1933." MCUs of citizens coming in and out of the election booth. Title: "Gewerkschaftshaus." VS of German soldiers and workers milling about the entrance way to a building. Title: "Election Day in Berlin, 5 Mar...

  14. Anti-Hitler demonstrations

    LSs, AVs, large group of men and women walking down a main thoroughfare in Chicago. MLSs as the men and women walk towards/past the camera, they are talking amongst themselves and some glance at the camera as they pass out of the frame. They are dressed warmly in fur coats and collars, hats, etc. marching to protest Hitler. A variety of banners are being carried, with slogans saying, "Down with Hitler-Avoid War", "Hitler Revives German Militarism", "Hitler's Henchman Goebbels Must not Greet the Centruy of Progress", "Join in the Jewish Protest Demonstration against Hitlerism, Today at 3:00 ...

  15. Anti-Hitler demonstrations

    Jewish War Vets parade to protest Nazi persecutions. MLSs to MSs, protesters gather in Washington Square Park. Many American and Palestinian flags, banners. Police on the sidelines trying to maintain order among the marchers. Some marchers are in uniform, others in civilian clothes, all marchers are men. They march uptown towards Central Park. VS, AVs of the parade route, crowds of bystanders line the streets. CU of banner, "HITLER CEASE BARBARISM". CU, tracking shot of the feet of protesters as they walk on the tram lines over cobbled streets. Protesters gather under tents in Central Park ...

  16. FDR and US congress; Huey Long; Father Coughlin

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 7, No. 356, Part 1. Release date, 05/22/1935. 01:58:21 Part 1A: "President reads bonus veto to joint Congress" Washington, DC. The President delivers the first personal veto speech in history to a joint session of Congress, explaining why he refuses to sign the Palman bill for the immediate payment of Adjusted Compensation certificates. Presidential motorcade to Capitol, shot from within a crowd of onlookers. CU of President Roosevelt, flanked by police officers. LS of Joint Congress standing and applauding. LS of Roosevelt speaking at podium to Congress. MCU, famil...

  17. Labor strike in Berlin

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 2, No. 97, Part 6. Release date, 12/01/1930. According to UN Motion Picture Release: News Paragraphs, Berlin, Germany. "Labor Strike Ends...." 140,000 workers. German metal workers returning to the factories. VS, workers filing into the factories, the street surrounding the factory; men, women and teenage boys visble in the crowds of workers entering the factory. Other parts of the newsreel include: 02:03:17 1: "New congress opens; favors jobless aid; red rioters quelled" 02:04:28 2: "Prize sprints stir jaded appetites of 6-day bike race fans" 02:05:22 3: "Leviathan...

  18. Jewish Religious Service

    MS, religious service in a synagogue. Rabbi and cantor singing, praying with open prayerbooks. CU, Rabbi (back of his head) with ark open before him. Camera pans the congregation, singing. MCU, cantor standing before large, arched windows, glare of light through window. Cantor seen mainly in profile, while singing turns occassionally toward and away from the camera.

  19. Arrest of Jews in Romania

    MCU, low angle, soldiers marching into a town. Cut to MCU, Jews with their hands in the air, emotional shot of a woman clinging to and hiding behind a man (presumably her husband or a relative), the man has his arms raised. MCU, men with their arms raised, being searched by Romanian soldiers. They open their jackets, check pockets, etc. MCU, low angle, a man sleeping, curled up on the ground, another man, or possibly a woman, covered in a blanket is curled up, sleeping next to him, a cat is visible cleaning itself in the background. Low angle pan of a street in the village.

  20. Inauguration of Jewish Hospital

    Opens with a number of intertitles, written in Romanian, describing the event. The inauguration of a Jewish Hospital on 1 September 1931. Men speak from a podium at the opening day activities. There are VS, panning the audience, made up of benefactors, etc. Many shots focus on the women in the audience, audience members stare directly at camera, often with a stern look. Each speaker is proceeded by an intertitle, giving their name, rank, affiliation with the hospital, etc. Some of the featured speakers are as follows: Dr. Iosif Sebestyen, President of the Hospital Committee; Dr. Sebestyen J...