Agrojoint activities in Ukraine

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 2006.474.1 | RG Number: RG-60.4598 | Film ID: 2833

Overview

Description: Russian intertitles. Excerpt from a film about the Jewish settlements in Crimea and in Ukraine, funded by the Agro-Joint (American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee). Children in Larinow, a settlement in the Ukraine, run up the steps to a school. Children studying at their desks in a classroom and playing outside in the yard. Men ride horses down a dirt track. A woman carrying a child puts a letter into a mailbox. Men sit outside a building and read a Yiddish newspaper. The camera focuses on the sign on the building, which is in Russian and Yiddish. A group of women sit outside talking and eating sunflower seeds. Nice shots (although too fast) of a group of old men praying in a synagogue. Scenes of Jews shopping at an outdoor market, then people unloading grain at a co-op. Very nice interior shots of a man measuring cloth for a customer. Men unload grain from a wagon. The intertitles suggest that the outdoor market represents the old way of life and the co-op represents the new.
Film Title: Agrojoint
Duration: 00:03:26
Date: Event: 1929
Locale: Larinow, Soviet Union
Ukraine
Credit: Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Russian Archives of Documentary Films and Photographs
Contributor: Camera Operator: Y. Fogelman
Camera Operator: V. Ruikovich

Language: Silent
Genre/Form: Documentary.
B&W / Color: Black & White
Image Quality: Fair
Time Code: 01:09:37:00 to 01:13:03:00
Film Format: Master
Master 2833 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - PAL
Master 2833 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - PAL
Master 2833 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - PAL
Master 2833 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - PAL
Preservation
Preservation 2833 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2833 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2833 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2833 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large

Conditions on Access: This archival media can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations.
Copyright: Russian State Documentary Film and Photo Archive (Krasnogorsk)
Conditions on Use: Contact the Russian State Documentary Film and Photo Archive at Krasnogorsk at filmarchives@aha.ru for permission to reproduce and use this film.
Copyright Holder: Russian State Documentary Film and Photo Archive (Krasnogorsk)

Keyword: CHILDREN CHILDREN (JEWISH) JDC (JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE) JEWISH LIFE (PRE-WAR) JEWS MARKETS NEWSPAPERS PRAYING SCHOOLS SOVIET UNION SYNAGOGUES WOMEN

Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Film Provenance: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased a copy of this footage from the Russian State Documentary Film and Photo Archive (RGAKFD) in Krasnogorsk, Russia in August 2006.
Note: This is an excerpt. The total length of this film is approxmately 1713 meters.
Copied From: 35mm
Film Source: Russian State Documentary Film and Photo Archive (Krasnogorsk)
File Number: Legacy Database File: 4945
Source Archive Number: 13418 R. 6
Special Collection: Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive