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Mikhoels performs a Yiddish play in Moscow

Film | Digitized | RG Number: RG-60.4517 | Film ID: 3037

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    Mikhoels performs a Yiddish play in Moscow

    Overview

    Description
    HAS, LS set, production, actors in costume performing a play, likely for the Moscow State Yiddish Theater. 01:02:22 CU, Solomon (Shloyme) Mikhoels in makeup and costume on stage. 01:03:20 Actors on stage.
    Duration
    00:05:28
    Date
    Event:  1930s
    Locale
    Moscow, Soviet Union
    Credit
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, gift of Julien Bryan Archive
    Contributor
    Camera Operator: Julien H. Bryan
    Biography
    Julien Hequembourg Bryan (1899-1974) was an American documentarian and filmmaker. Bryan traveled widely taking 35mm film that he sold to motion picture companies. In the 1930s, he conducted extensive lecture tours, during which he showed film footage he shot in the former USSR. Between 1935 and 1938, he captured unique records of ordinary people and life in Nazi Germany and in Poland, including Jewish areas of Warsaw and Krakow and anti-Jewish signs in Germany. His footage appeared in March of Time theatrical newsreels. His photographs appeared in Life Magazine. He was in Warsaw in September 1939 when Germany invaded and remained throughout the German siege of the city, photographing and filming what would become America's first cinematic glimpse of the start of WWII. He recorded this experience in both the book Siege (New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1940) and the short film Siege (RKO Radio Pictures, 1940) nominated for an Academy Award in 1940. In 1946, Bryan photographed the efforts of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Agency in postwar Europe.

    Physical Details

    Language
    Silent
    Genre/Form
    Unedited.
    B&W / Color
    Black & White
    Image Quality
    Good
    Time Code
    01:00:02:00 to 01:05:30:00
    Film Format
    • Master
    • Master 3037 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
      Master 3037 Film: negative - 35 mm - nitrate - b&w - camera original
      Master 3037 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
      Master 3037 Film: negative - 35 mm - nitrate - b&w - camera original
      Master 3037 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
      Master 3037 Film: negative - 35 mm - nitrate - b&w - camera original
      Master 3037 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
      Master 3037 Film: negative - 35 mm - nitrate - b&w - camera original
    • Preservation
    • Preservation 3037 Film: positive - 35 mm - polyester - b&w - optical track - print - Kodak - 2302
      Preservation 3037 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Preservation 3037 Film: positive - 35 mm - polyester - b&w - optical track - print - Kodak - 2302
      Preservation 3037 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Preservation 3037 Film: positive - 35 mm - polyester - b&w - optical track - print - Kodak - 2302
      Preservation 3037 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Preservation 3037 Film: positive - 35 mm - polyester - b&w - optical track - print - Kodak - 2302
      Preservation 3037 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    You do not require further permission from the Museum to access this archival media.
    Copyright
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    Conditions on Use
    Sam Bryan transferred the copyright for the Julien Bryan Archive to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in April 2020. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum places no restrictions on use of this material and you do not require further permission from the Museum to reproduce or use this film footage.

    Keywords & Subjects

    Administrative Notes

    Film Provenance
    Russian collection
    Note
    Film dates to 1934 according to edge code. Also assigned number "1929 BIS" by Julien Bryan.

    The Moscow State Yiddish Theater production of "An Evening with Sholem Aleichem" featuring the one-act play "MazlTov" originally appeared on January 1, 1921. Stage and costumes were designed by Marc Chagall. In this mid-1930s film excerpt, Mikhoels appears almost exactly as he did in the early 1920s production. Note in particular the colorful dots Chagall brushed directly onto Mikhoels' hat. This film may show a mid-1930s re-production of "An Evening with Sholem Aleichem" on stage, but that needs to be confirmed. As a member of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, Mikhoels was killed on Stalin's orders in 1948 in Minsk.
    Film Source
    Sam Bryan and International Film Foundation
    File Number
    Legacy Database File: 4848
    Source Archive Number: JB 1929A
    Record last modified:
    2024-02-21 08:04:31
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