Overview
- Description
- Reading of indictment at Nuremberg Trial. Courtroom at rest (pre-trial). Court rises as Tribunal enters. Dock showing Goering, Hess, Ribbentrop, etc. 01:01:58 Hess stares stonily (at camera). Hess looks around room, smirks and smiles as MP picks up Hess' earphones for him to hear. MS, MLS, defendants, judges, courtroom audience listening as Justice Lawrence (voiceover) speaks about giving defendants access to documents that will be used as evidence during the trial. (poor image quality-scratches on film, underexposed footage) 01:02:39 Lawrence continues stating, "Indictment shall now be read." Rear view of prosecutor reading indictment from the podium (poor image quality-underexposed) as well as the accusation of guilty. He names defendants, including: Funk, Streicher, Ley, Kaltenbrunner, Jodl, Bormann, von Ribbentrop, etc. 01:05:34 Goering looking bored, distracted. Hess fidgets. MLS, seated group of defendants' attorneys, dock in BG. 01:06:40 Indictment refers to the extermination of a certain group and utilization of Nazi control. Cut to Hess and Goering, slow pan across defendants' bench (uneven lighting in courtroom). 01:07:30 MS, Judge's bench. 01:07:57 WS, view of translators. 01:08:21 LS from back of courtroom, rear view of British prosecutor reading the indictment: Count 2 and Appendix B.
- Duration
- 00:08:02
- Date
-
Event:
11/20/1945
- Locale
-
Nuremberg,
Germany
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
- Contributor
-
Producer:
United States. Army. Signal Corps.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Genre/Form
- Unedited.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Poor
- Time Code
- 01:11:07:00 to 01:19:09:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 163 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 163 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 163 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 163 Video: One Inch - NTSC- Preservation
Preservation 163 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 163 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
Preservation 163 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 163 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
Preservation 163 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 163 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
Preservation 163 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 163 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
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- Copyright
- Public Domain
- Conditions on Use
- To the best of the Museum's knowledge, this material is in the public domain. You do not require further permission from the Museum to reproduce or use this material.
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this collection from the National Archives and Records Administration in November 1990. The footage was obtained as research for the Museum's Permanent Exhibition.
- Note
- Duplicate footage on Film ID 2277, Story 2419.
- Copied From
- 35mm
- Film Source
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 63
Source Archive Number: 111 ADC 5522 - Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:46:59
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