St. Louis in Cuban Harbor

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 1991.252.1 | RG Number: RG-60.0014 | Film ID: 3

Overview

Description: Universal Newsreel, Vol. 11, No. 777, Part 2A. Release date, 05/28/1939.
Various MLS of ship St. Louis (shot from sea level looking up to bow). At harbor. From starboard, people at rail. MS well-dressed and good looking men in white jackets, uniforms stand on ground/dock. LS "St. Louis" on side of ship. LS ship pulling out of harbor (backwards). People standing around on land.

Intended narration according to UN Motion Picture Release: "907 Jewish refugees from Germany aboard the liner Saint Louis, who were refused admission into Cuba as the liner rode at anchor for days or cruised in West Indian waters, now have a new ray of hope. They are to be permitted to land on the Isle of Pines and stay for a while in a Cuban concentration camp. But their plight is still pitiful. Men, women and children without a country."

Newsreel footage also includes the following parts:
02:20:25 (no title)
02:21:25 Rome, Italy
02:21:53 Edmonton, Alberta
02:22:18 Lourdes, France
02:22:33 Grand Coulee Dam, WA
02:23:20 Barberton, OH
02:23:46 (no title)
02:24:27 Birmingham, AL
02:25:32 Keller, WA
02:26:04 New York, NY
02:26:36 Westbury, NY
Film Title: Cuba Opens Doors to Refugees
Duration: 00:00:29
Date: Event: 1939 May 28
Locale: Havana, Cuba
Credit: Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
Contributor: Producer: Universal News

Language: Silent
Genre/Form: Newsreels.
B&W / Color: Black & White
Image Quality: Fair
Time Code: 02:20:56:00 to 02:21:25:00
Film Format: Master
Master 3 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 3 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 3 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 3 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Preservation
Preservation 3 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 3 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 3 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 3 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large

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Copyright: Public Domain
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Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Film Provenance: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this from the National Archives and Records Administration in March 1991. The footage was obtained as research for the Museum's Permanent Exhibition.
Note: See textual records in USHMM files that include related newspaper articles, press releases, and cameraman's dope sheets.
Copied From: 35mm b/w print
Film Source: United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
File Number: Legacy Database File: 97
Source Archive Number: 200 UN 11-777-2A
Special Collection: Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive