Five Cities
Overview
- Description
- Yiddish titles. English title, "Jewish Life in Vilna" Pan, overview of the city of Vilna, showing broad streets, traffic, large buildings, pedestrians. Shows Vilna's famous landmarks: the Strashun Library, Shnipeshiker Cemetery, and the YIVO Institute. Elderly woman prays. In Jewish quarter, clocks displayed on EXT of buildings, Yiddish signs, narrow streets with shops, people engaged in the rituals and realities of daily existence at work selling wares on the street, resting. Men with horses and buggies wait for passengers at square. CUs, children. Street scenes, pedestrians, shops, signs, main square. Old and young relax in park. Diving, swimming, kayaking, boat on river. HAS, city of Vilna. "The End"
- Film Title
-
Jewish Life in Wilno
- Duration
- 00:09:38
- Date
-
Event:
1939
Production: 1939
- Locale
-
Vilna,
Lithuania
- 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
- Fair
- Time Code
- 02:01:06:00 to 02:10:44:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 242 Video: One Inch - 1 inch - NTSC
Master 242 Film: positive - 16 mm - b&w - print
Master 242 Video: One Inch - 1 inch - NTSC
Master 242 Film: positive - 16 mm - b&w - print
Master 242 Video: One Inch - 1 inch - NTSC
Master 242 Film: positive - 16 mm - b&w - print
Master 242 Video: One Inch - 1 inch - NTSC
Master 242 Film: positive - 16 mm - b&w - print- Preservation
Preservation 242 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 242 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 242 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 242 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.
- Film Source
- Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 2259
- Special Collection
-
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 08:03:56
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