Overview
- Description
- Eleanor Roosevelt momentarily shown as fashion model. Narrator claims she personally propagated "swing." Narrator makes fun of "inferior" Black American's swing music and dancing and its cultural acceptance among whites. Jitterbugging, swing, and endurance dancing shown. Black baptism in river seen closeup. 02:03:08 Max Ernst and cubist and surrealistic "degenerate art," FDR speaks, and rabbis watch as Jewish War Veterans march. Baptism in river, pro-wrestling match, women wrestling, mud wrestling, and man jumps to death from building.
- Film Title
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Rund um die Freiheitsstatue -- Ein Spaziergang durch die USA [Trip Past Statue of Liberty]
- Duration
- 00:07:49
- Date
-
Production:
1942
- Locale
-
United States
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Bundesarchiv Filmarchiv
Physical Details
- Language
- German
- Genre/Form
- Propaganda.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Good
- Time Code
- 02:01:08:00 to 02:08:57:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 317 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 317 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 317 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 317 Video: One Inch - NTSC- Preservation
Preservation 317 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 317 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 317 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 317 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- You do not require further permission from the Museum to access this archival media.
- 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, or submit the online request form at: https://www.bundesarchiv.de/EN/Content/Downloads/request-for-use-av-material.pdf?__blob=publicationFile
- Copyright Holder
- Federal Republic of Germany. Bundesarchiv.
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 October 1992. The footage was obtained as research for the Museum's Permanent Exhibition.
- Note
- The Bundesarchiv/Transit number for this film is 49.
- Copied From
- 35mm DNC (P); b/w
- Film Source
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 1096
Source Archive Number: 242 MID 3158 R2 - Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:54:44
- This page:
- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn1000578
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