Five Cities
Overview
- Description
- Yiddish titles. English title, "A Day in Warsaw" Pan, overview of city of Warsaw, street scenes, pedestrians, important modern multistoried buildings, cars, city square with pedestrians. Contrasted with old market square, narrow streets, Jewish quarter, including Zamenhof Street and the commercial Nalewki Steet where 400,000 Jews lived before WWII, and Jewish institutions, such as the community council, hospitals, schools and synagogues. Scenes of the modern parts of the city with large buildings, autos, and trucks meet with horse-drawn carriages, crowds, pushcarts, and porters in the bustling commercial district. Yiddish theater. Marketplace, overviews and CUs, chickens, children, clothing, bread, peddler. Zamenhof. Gensza cemetery. Poster for "Habima." Lines of pushcarts. Many exit synagogue after Sabbath services, and families pour into Krashinsky Park where children play and adults spiritedly debate the issues of the day. Yiddish newspapers. Crowds of Orthodox Jews in streets, shops closed for Sabbath. "The End"
- Film Title
-
A Day in Warsaw
- Duration
- 00:09:33
- Date
-
Event:
1938
Production: 1938
- Locale
-
Warsaw,
Poland
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of The Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archives of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Contributor
-
Producer:
Yitzhak Goskind
Camera Operator: V. Kazimierczak
Text Contributor: Asher Lerner
Narrator:
Producer:
- Biography
-
In 1938 and 1939, Shaul and Yitzhak Goskind of Warsaw-based Sektor Films produced six short films about urban Jewish communities in Poland. One, about Łódź, is lost. The other five-on Bialystok, Cracow, Lwow, Vilna, and Warsaw-have survived and are now called "Five Cities." These low-budget 35mm films were made for Landsmanshaften groups in America for fundraising purposes. On the eve of war, the Goskinds sent the films to Joseph Seiden, the prolific director in New York who distributed Yiddish newsreels and feature films in the US and Europe.
Physical Details
- Language
- Yiddish
- Genre/Form
- Documentary.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Good
- Time Code
- 01:30:38:00 to 01:40:11:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 241 Video: One Inch - 1 inch - NTSC
Master 241 Film: positive - 16 mm - b&w - print
Master 241 Video: One Inch - 1 inch - NTSC
Master 241 Film: positive - 16 mm - b&w - print
Master 241 Video: One Inch - 1 inch - NTSC
Master 241 Film: positive - 16 mm - b&w - print
Master 241 Video: One Inch - 1 inch - NTSC
Master 241 Film: positive - 16 mm - b&w - print- Preservation
Preservation 241 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 241 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 241 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 241 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- This archival media can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations.
- Copyright
- Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive
- Conditions on Use
- Third parties should contact the Spielberg Jewish Film Archive at jfa@savion.huji.ac.il for permission to reproduce and use the footage.
- Copyright Holder
- Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased "Five Cities" on film from the Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive via the United Studios of Israel in February 1992.
- Note
- See also Story 801, Film ID 514 for some duplicate footage.
- Film Source
- Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 2258
- Special Collection
-
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 08:06:00
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