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  1. March of Time -- outtakes -- Szold funeral; Jerusalem; Shertok

    Crowd of people outside Hadassah Medical Organization. CU entrance. Nurses process for the funeral services of Henriette Szold, founder of the School of Nurses on Mt. Scopus. Towards Jewish cemetery. Shots of road, outside town. Crowd of men. Many people, Jerusalem seen in the BG. View of the mountains over the Dead Sea. Shots from hillside. Church of Nativity in Bethlehem. 06:19:49 Students walk under arcades which go from the library to the new University buildings in Jerusalem. Hebrew University, shot of Jeruslaem, churchs. 06:21:11 Inscription of an old Jewish tomb. La Jaffa gate and Je...

  2. March of Time -- outtakes -- Hebrew University

    Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Rector of the University, Professor L.A. Mayer of art and archaeoogy in the Middle East in his office. Joined by Dr. D.W. Senator, Administrator of the University, and Mr. Ibn Sahaw, registrar (re-shot 3 times). 06:26:41 Crowded lecture room. Physics lecturer writing on board. Course on English lecture. 06:28:51 People looking at manuscript page on which Einstein established the principle of relativity in glass box. Woman pointing and talking. 06:29:22 Professors in office, passing papers about the revival of the Hebrew language and literature in the modern wor...

  3. March of Time -- outtakes -- Mosque; Arabs in Palestine

    Road junction with Syrian and Transjordanian borders. Buses, signpost "Jerusalem Trans Jordan South" and "Frontier Syria". 06:32:45 Desert, cows, sea. People on beach. 06:33:24 Jassar Mosque at end of road, old market square in FG. Teachers walking. 06:34:19 Entrance, students walking up and down. Playing board games. 06:35:25 Reading mail. Street scenes with camels, busy 06:36:07 Men drinking tea/coffee. 06:36:45 Shot of busy square. Band walk past. 06:37:45 Arab women and children. 06:38:47 Shot of town. Street, countryside. 06:40:21 Men walking in FG, Khalissa Arab Market, merchants, but...

  4. March of Time -- outtakes -- Tel Aviv Schools

    Herzelia secondary school in Tel Aviv. First day of Mourning, of a week of mourning in memory of the millions of Jews tortured and killed by the Nazis, with a special ceremony at all schools in Palestine. Busy street, buildings. People exiting building en masse. 06:43:15 Lines of school children doing drills. Israeli flag. Women conducting girls singing hymn of Faith (brought from the ghetto). 06:44:35 Man reads oath from scroll to girls. Hebrew writing: "The remnant of Israel shall multiply on its soil. It shall rise. The hope of Israel shall never wane. His home shall be upbuilt and firml...

  5. Hitler, Speer, Karl Brandt, Himmler, Heydrich, Ribbentrop

    Reel 1 of the private motion pictures of Eva Braun (Seized Enemy Records). Film titles/locations include: Am Chiemsee, Wolfgangsee, Aschauer Weiher [pond], Woerthsee, Punktchen am Berg. B/W. Eva Braun swims with her parents and others at the Koenigsee, near Berchtesgaden. Scenes at waterfall. Munich, inside Eva Braun's home at Wasserburgerstrasse 12. INT, Eva Braun with family and friends, seated in front of large fireplace. Includes Ilse Braun and CU of Herta Schneider, her husband, and her oldest child. Koenigsee: The Schneiders pose on the edge of the lake for camera. INT at Berghof, Ber...

  6. Hitler's retreat: Goebbels, Himmler, Hitler, dogs, children

    Reel 2 of the private motion pictures of Eva Braun (Seized Enemy Records). COLOR Panoramic view from the terrace of Hitler's Berghof retreat, Haus Wachenfeld. Eva Braun greets Josef Goebbels as he arrives in a Mercedes-Cabriolet and comes upstairs to Berghof. Hitler with his physician, Dr. Karl Brandt. New arrivals up the steps to Berghof. Heinrich Himmler, Reinhard Heydrich, Karl Wolff, close views on the terrace. Also with one other man. Panning shots over mountains at sunset. Hitler using large magnifying glass to look at photograph; with Julius Schaub and Hermann Esser. Berghof, August ...

  7. Berghof: Sepp Dietrich, Eva's family, dogs, colleagues

    Reel 3A of the private motion pictures of Eva Braun (Seized Enemy Records). COLOR. Scenes taken from an airplane. Woman with two young children. Gen. Joseph (Sepp) Dietrich, Chief of Waffen SS, CUs on terrace reading documents, playing with Albert Speer's children, holding little girl on lap. Eva with members of family. Scenes of a town. B/W. People conversing possibly on a moving train, including Otto Dietrich, Dr. & Mrs. Morrell, Braun sister, and a woman in suit and tie. COLOR. Scenes of dogs playing on terrace. Black Scottie with German Shepherd pups; black Scottie pups. B/W. Puppie...

  8. Eva Braun & family on holiday cruise

    Reel 3B of the private motion pictures of Eva Braun (Seized Enemy Records). B/W. Scenes in a mansion. Water, mountains, people. Eva Braun and companions on board a large steamer at sea, probably the ship Milwaukee, during a trip to Norway and Denmark. COLOR. Woman walking down street, stops in front of window of Hamburg-Amerika Line. Reflection of Eva in window holding camera. Woman walking into salon, getting out of car. B/W. Group of men and women walking out to airplane in the rain. Markings on plane: D-ACVH. Getting onto plane. Scenes taken out window of plane while still on ground. COL...

  9. Eva Braun with her family; Berchtesgaden terrace on Easter

    Reel 4 of the private motion pictures of Eva Braun. (Seized Enemy Records.) COLOR. Scenes of buildings, boats, in Copenhagen. Eva with her family on a boat. Scenes of city and the water. Women selling fish. Out at sea, military boats, other boats. Hands from deck of boat in Nazi salute. Docking, man shaking woman's hand. Scenes in countryside taken from car. Herta Schneider and her two children on Berchtesgaden terrace playing with Easter toys. Women and children playing with rabbits. Woman in a rowboat. Children playing, scenes with dog. Military man with wife and toddler. Woman playing wi...

  10. US Army Air Force; Dachau; Munich destruction

    MS, CUs four P-47s in flight. P-47s buzz countryside, pull up at airfield, in flight again. CU mechanic works on P-47 engine. MCU crew chief in cockpit of P-47. Crew chief uses air hose to clean engine. 10:06:25 Very dark shot with light inside an oven in Dachau crematory. CU tattooed prison number of Dachau inmate. CU man's sleeve is pulled up to show number tattooed on arm. CU painting of men hanging from arms as Nazi officials look on. CU painting showing forms of torture in Dachau. CU address and signature of artist. MS of Feldturnhalle in Munich with white lettering on side of building...

  11. Anti-fascist and anti-racist educational film made by US Army Signal Corps

    An American film dramatizing the destructive effects of racial and religious prejudice. The film was made to make the case for the desegregation of the US Armed Forces. Reel 1: shows a fake wrestling match and crooked gambling games with narration: "There's a good old-fashioned word for people like this. We call them suckers." An agitator addresses a street crowd; he almost convinces an American man in the audience until he begins to talk to a Hungarian refugee from Germany. A Nazi speaker harangues a crowd in Germany denouncing Jews, Catholics, and Freemasons. Reel 2: A German unemployed w...

  12. Efforts to combat antisemitism

    Documentary on efforts by a teacher and the YMCA to combat antisemitism among children. Sixth-grade boys in New Haven, CT refuse to play with a Jewish boy; teacher asks help from male secretary of the New Haven YMCA; YMCA forms a boy's club, open to everyone; boys finally become good friends.

  13. March of Time -- outtakes -- Street scenes, singing/dancing in beerhouse

    Street scenes in Yorkville, New York ("Little Germany"). "Cafe Hindenburg." Pedestrians. "Barber shop" "Platzl Dance" "Rudi's and Maxl's Brau-Haus" Store windows. Newspaper stand. "86 St. Garden" theater with English titles. "Europe" theater. Ticket window. "Deutsche Plassen." INT, women and men dancing and singing, drinking beer, accordion, at table [with SOUND]. The crowd is singing Bavarian songs: "Ein Prost, ein Prost der Gemuetlichkeit" and "Wenn am Sonntagabend die Dorfmusik Spielt." Theater. Neon signs for delicatesen. EXT, "Brau-Haus." "86 St. Garden" Deli, CUs meats and cheeses.

  14. March of Time -- outtakes -- Various signs/posters

    CU, poster "Boycott Nazi Goods and Services." "Boycott Nazi Germany" pin. CUs, poster. CUs, German papers and magazines. "Der Stuermer." CU, "16 Droysenstrasse" door plate; "Karl Reimer" door plate. Poster, "Bekanntmachung" dated 15 July 1937? with text: Wegen Hochverrates am deutschen Volke wurden heute hingerichtet: Joachim Klauser, Heinz Kuhnert, Wolfgang Bart. CUs posters: "Hitler Jugend - Hitler Youth"; "Arbeitsdienst - Labor Service"; "Jungmaedels - Young Girls"; "Schutz Staffel - Black Shirts"; "Kraft durch Freude - Strength through Joy." Newspaper headlines about trial of religious ...

  15. March of Time -- outtakes -- Hitler in Prague and Berlin

    Hitler on train from Vienna to Prague waving out of window. Hitler in car in Prague street kissing baby. Nazi flags in Berlin. Hitler returns to Berlin from Prague, getting off train. Night shots of crowd. Troops in Berlin. Hitler at window with crowd below (night shot). Fireworks for conquest of Czechoslovakia at night in Berlin.

  16. March of Time -- outtakes -- Willkie speech at anti-Nazi, anti-Hitler demonstrations in NYC

    845 A (09:20:58): "Stop Hitler" Unity Rally, Manhattan Center, New York city. Various shots of Wendell Willkie speaking at the rally. Various shots of audience listening and applauding speech. EXT, night shot of canopy: Manhattan Center / Welcome / Stop Hitler Unity Rally / Wendell Willkie July 17th. 9:26:38 Interior view of hall, people in balconies, flag-draped, and sign: "Defend America / Fight for Freedom." 845 B (09:27:31): Various shots of Wendell Willkie's studio speech, "The Fate of Freedom." U.S. flag background. (Sound better on this section) Several takes. "Ladies and gentlemen, ...

  17. March of Time -- outtakes -- FDR declaration of war speech

    US Capitol, Washington, DC. Various shots of President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivering his declaration of war speech. Clark reading resolution. Reaction shots, members cheering and applauding. Speaker of the House, Samuel Rayburn, calling House to order.

  18. March of Time -- outtakes -- Orchestra; art gallery; press conference in Tel Aviv

    Men and women going to see "The Palestine Orchestra." CU, poster with date January 25, 1945. 05:40:01 Woman at piano, talking to man. CU pianist, her hands. 05:41:56 People arriving outside Katz Art Gallery. CU, poster advertising sculpture exhibition by S.C. Stutzer. Busts in the gallery. 05:43:14 Men in workshop, printing. Newspaper printing machine. Men in office. EXT, press building, vendors leaving with newspapers on their bicycles. 05:46:50 Conference of Arab-Jewish press in Tel Aviv. Jewish and Arab journalists of Tel Aviv and Arab journalists from Jaffa meet with Dr. W.M. Clyde, adv...

  19. March of Time -- outtakes -- Jewish refugees, Jewish Agency, Jewish Brigade in Palestine

    Young Jewish refugees, having escaped the Germans, arrived at the Athlit Camp near Haifa wanting to join the Jewish Brigade. Yellow stars pinned to coats and vests. General shot of the recruiting. Several young Jews stand before the table to sign up. MS, Jews signing up, Yellow Star of David is apparent. General shot of young Jews entering the Recruiting Department of the Jewish Agency of Tel Aviv. CU, sign of recruiting bureau in Hebrew and English. The Mobile Jewish Brigade of Tel Monte - a special armed Jewish brigade authorized by the English authorities to defend the settlement (create...

  20. March of Time -- outtakes -- Arrival of Romanian refugees

    Arrival of 600 Romanian Jewish refugees (liberated by Russians) near Haifa [coming from concentration camp in Trans-Dniestrie]. LS ship docked. MS refugees wave handkerchiefs. Authorities go aboard. LS ship with soldiers carryng arms; ambulances in FG. Unloading baggage with Commandant Morgan, Sea Transport Naval Officer, in FG. Refugees exit ship down gangplank; elderly, mothers with children. Filled baggage wagon passes in front of ship. Young refugees dance the "Hora" on the bridge of the ship. Refugees pass crowded train and board another. Arrival of train in Athlit camp. Members of the...