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Poverty in Smolensk

Film | Accession Number: 1991.260.1 | RG Number: RG-60.0287 | Film ID: 202A

VAR extreme poverty in Smolensk, USSR. Sick young children and babies lying in poorly-lit, grim room. Flies crawl on them. They are tended by two kerchiefed women. EXT pans of more young children, naked, on cloths on the ground. They are emaciated, crying or sleeping, crawling with flies. Ragged children, women, and men (probably refugees), walk along a dirt road in rural town, carrying bundles, some leading dray horses, cows. (Some children smile, they are walking toward camera.)


Film Title
Deutsche Wochenschau
Duration
00:01:49
Date
Event:  Summer 1941
Censor:  1941 August 06
Locale
Smolensk, Soviet Union
Language
German
Genre/Form
Newsreels.
Credit
Accessed at US Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Bundesarchiv

About This Film

B&W / Color
Black & White
Image Quality
Good
Time Code
04:02:10:00 to 04:03:59:00
Film Format
  • Master
    • Master 202A Video: One Inch - 1 inch - NTSC
  • Preservation
    • Preservation 202A Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Special Collection
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive

Keywords and Subjects

Administrative History

Legal Status
Permanent Collection
Film Provenance
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this from the Bundesarchiv in Berlin, Germany in September 1991. The footage was transferred at Bibo TV in Germany and obtained as research for the Museum's Permanent Exhibition.
Note
BA shotlist indicates this is Reel 2A, not Reel 3.
Copied From
35mm; b/w
Film Source
Bundesarchiv (Germany). Filmarchiv
File Number
Legacy Database File: 860
Source Archive Number: DW 570/33/41 R3

Rights and Restrictions

Copyright
Copyright. Federal Republic of Germany. Bundesarchiv.
Conditions on Use
Researchers who wish to use this footage should contact the Bundesarchiv Filmarchiv at filmbenutzung@bundesarchiv.de to sign a release. The online request form is available at: https://www.bundesarchiv.de/EN/Content/Downloads/request-for-use-av-material.pdf?__blob=publicationFile
 
Record last modified: 2020-04-29 10:33:55
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