Overview
- Description
- Filmed version of Yiddish State Art Theater (Moscow) production of King Lear, starring Solomon Mikhoels as Lear and Benjamin Zuskin as the Fool. Wide shots of curtained stage and opening of curtains to reveal throne. Grand entrance for Lear. MS of Lear giving speech in Yiddish, daughter and Fool on either side of throne. King Lear's first speech in the play (Act I, Scene 1), refers to dividing the kingdom in three... that strife may be prevented... : "Meantime we shall express our darker purpose. Give me the map there."
- Duration
- 00:01:42
- Date
-
Event:
1930s
- Locale
-
Moscow,
Soviet Union
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Chronos-Media Filmarchiv
- 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
- Yiddish
- Genre/Form
- Unedited.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Fair
- Time Code
- 04:03:04:00 to 04:04:46:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 140 Film: 35 mm
Master 140 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 140 Film: 35 mm
Master 140 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 140 Film: 35 mm
Master 140 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 140 Film: 35 mm
Master 140 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large- Preservation
Preservation 140 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 140 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 140 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 140 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- This archival media can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations.
- Copyright
- Chronos-Media GmbH
- Conditions on Use
- Contact Chronos-Media at info@chronos-media.de for permission to reproduce and use this footage.
- Copyright Holder
- Chronos-Media GmbH
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this collection of film documents from Chronos-Media GmbH in Potsdam, Germany in 1989. Film and Video staff ordered videotape transfers in November 1991.
- Note
- Original film can label reads "Chronos / Dokuments / Akt 1".
Obtained from the Axelbank Collection at Chronos. - Film Source
- Chronos-Media GmbH
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 644
- Special Collection
-
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:54:00
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