Overview
- Description
- Slate: "Mainzer / SFP 186 / Buchenwald / Roll MM-8 / 4-16-1945". MS, shirtless thin man sitting against red barn wall at Buchenwald camp. Another man, older with a shirt on. German civilians walking inside camp, forced to confront the atrocities. Two inmates in striped uniforms seated on a bench against barracks. Civilians walk through an opening in wooden barricade/wall. Slate: "Mainzer / SFP 186 / Buchenwald / Roll MM-9 / 4-16-1945". Pile of corpses with barracks in background. Bodies on flatbed, faces, feet, from various angles. German civilians touring the camp, survivors peering over wall. Upset German civilians viewing bodies (same as earlier shot). Aerial view of town, bombs being dropped, fields, farmland, river. Pan up to sky. Brighter bombing of town. Countryside. More bombing. Soldiers (American?) filing out of barracks, standing in front of tent, waiting in line, getting rations. Two truckloads of soldiers drive away onto road. More bombing of train, more destruction. Closer shot of town. Bombing of industrial plant.
- Duration
- 00:18:24
- Date
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Event:
April 16-17, 1945
- Locale
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Buchenwald,
Germany
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
- Contributor
-
Producer:
United States. Army Air Forces.
Camera Operator: Arthur J. Mainzer
Camera Operator: Voelker
Camera Operator: Thomas
Camera Operator: Lindsay
- Biography
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Arthur Mainzer (1923-) was a cameraman in the 4th Combat Camera Unit of the 9th Air Force. The Combat Camera Unit was tasked with creating Air Force training films at Hal Roach Studios. After completing training at the Air Force Photo Technical School in Denver, CO and the First Motion Picture Unit in Culver, City, CA, Mainzer was deployed to Europe. He was filming bomb damage by the Allied Air Forces with Captain Ellis Carter when they heard about Buchenwald and drove there by jeep on April 13, 1945. Mainzer and Carter filmed conditions at the camp on Kodak color film stock using two handheld 16mm film cameras. The footage was then sent to headquarters in London for processing.
Physical Details
- Language
- Silent
- Genre/Form
- Unedited.
- B&W / Color
- Color
- Image Quality
- Good
- Time Code
- 07:01:12:00 to 07:19:36:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 849 Video: Betacam SP - color - NTSC - small
Master 849 Video: Betacam SP - color - NTSC - small
Master 849 Video: Betacam SP - color - NTSC - small
Master 849 Video: Betacam SP - color - NTSC - small- Preservation
Preservation 849 Video: Betacam SP - color - NTSC - small
Preservation 849 Video: Betacam SP - color - NTSC - small
Preservation 849 Video: Betacam SP - color - NTSC - small
Preservation 849 Video: Betacam SP - color - NTSC - small
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- Copyright
- Public Domain
- Conditions on Use
- To the best of the Museum's knowledge, this material is in the public domain. You do not require further permission from the Museum to reproduce or use this material.
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this from the National Archives and Records Administration in September 1994.
- Note
- This corresponds to the still photo we often discuss as having been rejected for use as the opening of the PE.
Mainzer was filming bomb damage by the Allied Air Forces with Captain Ellis Carter when they heard about Buchenwald and drove there by jeep on April 13, 1945. Mainzer and Carter filmed conditions at the camp on Kodak color film stock using two handheld 16mm film cameras. The footage was then sent to headquarters in London for processing.
USHMM replaced the online streaming video with a new, higher resolution digital file produced for the VHH project. The 16mm film source from NARA was scanned by the Austrian Filmmuseum in 2021. - Copied From
- 16mm
- Film Source
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 148
Source Archive Number: 18 SFP 9126 - Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 08:05:15
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