Overview
- Description
- Shot of Caldas da Rainha (30 miles from Lisbon), residence for all refugees living in Portugal, many of whom were Jewish. VS of cattle fair. 02:45:32 Refugee works garden, woman spreads wash. EXT of Cafe Boccage, then packed INT [cafe is meant to replicate artists' cafe in Montparnasse, "La Rotonde"]. INT of Hotel Lisbonse where refugees meet to talk, play cards, sit on sofas, and chat. At 02:46:14 is a side view of Isaac Margosis at the extreme right in the glasses talking to the people playing cards. VS. Quick EXT shot of Jews leaving improvised synagogue as young boy looks at doorway.
- Film Title
-
Portugal-Europe's Crossroads
- Duration
- 00:02:36
- Date
-
Event:
1942-1943
Production: 1943 October
- Locale
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Caldas da Rainha,
Portugal
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
- Contributor
-
Producer:
March of Time, Inc.
Subject: Isaac Margosis
- Biography
-
Isaac Margosis is the father of the Museum survivor-volunteer Michel Margosis. Isaac Ben-Seef Margosis was born in Odessa on December 5, 1898 and studied under the foremost Hebrew poet of the day, Chaim Nachman Bialik. He became an active Zionist and settled in Brussels where he edited and published two weekly papers, the Jewish "Yiddishe Voch" and the French "Notre Opinion." Isaac was in Switzerland covering the World Zionist Congress when war broke out in September 1939. Isaac attempted to get visas in Vichy, but the efforts failed. As a journalist his life was most in danger since he had been publishing editorials denouncing fascism and despotism. Isaac escaped to Portugal in 1940, where he was relocated to Caldas da Rainha, and did not see his family again for several years. Isaac came to the United States in 1946.
Physical Details
- Language
- Silent
- Genre/Form
- Outtakes.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Fair
- Time Code
- 02:44:32:00 to 02:47:08:00
- 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
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- Copyright
- Public Domain
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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
- Outtake from edited March of Time story "Portugal-Europe's Crossroads."
Cameraman's dope sheet available in departmental files. - Copied From
- Video Master
- Film Source
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 1103
Source Archive Number: 200 MTT 994 H - Special Collection
-
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:47:59
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