Amateur film club visits Dachau, 1942

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 2010.208.1 | RG Number: RG-60.1283 | Film ID: 2899

Overview

Description: Title onscreen indicates that the footage shows an outing of the Munich amateur film club to Dachau, 1942. See Stories 1282, 1284, and 1285 for related footage. Very bluish color. A slate reads: "Special train (Sonderzug) for the amateur film club leaves at 7:45 am for Dachau." Members of the film club ride the train to Dachau. A clock indicates that they are arriving at Dachau train station at 8:19. They arrive at the station and begin filming in the residential/commercial areas of the town (NOT the camp). It appears to be summertime, based on their clothing. Club members film using a tripod and hand-held cameras. A woman in a dirndl serves them cake outdoors. They film a toddler with puppies. Shots of the town: a belfry, town or castle walls, old homes, a church with pedestrians nearby, vistas.

00:24:06 Members of the club stand outside a building housing an art exhibit. The club stops at a beer garden ( CU of the bar indicates that it is the Schlossberg brewery), and then goes for a swim, taking and posing for playful shots of themselves and others diving and lounging about. They use reverse motion photography to show a man diving into the river and then coming back out of the water onto the diving board. Children play in a pool of mud. Special-effects shots of alcohol disappearing from glasses.
Duration: 00:04:28
Date: Event: 1942
Locale: Dachau, Germany
Credit: Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of La Camera Stylo

Language: Silent
Genre/Form: Amateur.
B&W / Color: Color
Black & White
Image Quality: Fair
Time Code: 00:21:38:00 to 00:26:06:00
Film Format: Master
Master 2899 Video: Digital Betacam - PAL - large
Master 2899 Video: Digital Betacam - PAL - large
Master 2899 Video: Digital Betacam - PAL - large
Master 2899 Video: Digital Betacam - PAL - large
Preservation
Preservation 2899 Video: Betacam SP - b&w and color - NTSC - large
Preservation 2899 Video: Betacam SP - b&w and color - NTSC - large
Preservation 2899 Video: Betacam SP - b&w and color - NTSC - large
Preservation 2899 Video: Betacam SP - b&w and color - NTSC - large
User
User 2899 Video: DVD - b&w and color
User 2899 Video: DVD - b&w and color
User 2899 Video: DVD - b&w and color
User 2899 Video: DVD - b&w and color

Conditions on Access: This archival media can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations.
Copyright: La Camera Stylo
Conditions on Use: Contact La Camera Stylo at info@lcs-film.de for permission to reproduce and use this footage.
Copyright Holder: La Camera Stylo

Keyword: CAMERAS CHILDREN CHURCHES DOGS EXHIBITIONS MUSEUMS RIVERS TRAIN STATIONS TRAINS

Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Film Provenance: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased the film excerpts from La Camera Stylo in July 2010.
Copied From: 8mm
Film Source: La Camera Stylo
File Number: Legacy Database File: 5474
Special Collection: Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive