Overview
- Description
- 1150 Y: Prague, Czechoslovakia, October 3, 1946 (?). INTs, Jews worshipping in the Synagogue of Prague. MS, the rabbi opens the ark and takes out the Torah which is shown to the worshippers. LS, same as MS above. MS, Jews worshipping the Torah. The rabbi enters the center of the synagogue where the Torah is placed on a table. He opens it. MS, the rabbi opening the Torah for the ceremony. CU, the rabbi opening the Torah and demonstrating it, wide open, to the worshippers. LS, Jews leaving the synagogue after the ceremony. NOTE: The American Jews gave a Torah to the Czech Jews in Prague. This Torah is shown here during a ceremony celebrated in the oldest synagogue in Prague.
1150 Z: ANNUAL PILGRIMAGE AT VELEHRAD (prohibited during the German occupation). Shows the magnificence and variety of Czechoslovak costumes. Peasants in full dress leave a church. LS in an old street peasants in rich costumes walking in procession, singing and dancing. Several shots of peasants (boys, girls, children, women, and men). Walking in a procession in another part of the village. Same peasants on the stage among a huge crowd. Several shots of the show. Cameraman's dope sheet indicates that "All peasants came from each corner of Czechoslovakia." - Film Title
-
Czechoslovakia-The Soviet's Neighbor
- Duration
- 00:07:08
- Date
-
Event:
1946 October 03
Censor: 1946
- Locale
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Prague,
Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
- Contributor
-
Director:
Jean Pages
Producer: March of Time, Inc.
Camera Operator: Marcel Rebiere
Physical Details
- Language
- Silent
- Genre/Form
- Outtakes.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Fair
- Time Code
- 04:06:58:00 to 04:14:06:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 919 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Master 919 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Master 919 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Master 919 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small- Preservation
Preservation 919 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 919 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 919 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 919 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
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- Copyright
- Public Domain
- Conditions on Use
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Keywords & Subjects
- Keyword
- AUSCHWITZ CEMETERIES CEREMONIES CHAPLAINS CHILDREN COSTUMES CROSSES CZECHOSLOVAKIA DANCING FLAGS JEWS LIDICE (ATROCITY) MARCH OF TIME PARADES PEASANTS RABBIS RELIGIOUS SERVICES (JEWISH) SINGING SPEECHES STREETS SURVIVORS (JEWISH) SYNAGOGUES TATTOOS THERESIENSTADT (TEREZIN) TORAH SCROLLS WOMEN
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this from the National Archives and Records Administration in September 1994.
- Note
- Cameraman's dope sheet available in departmental files.
See Story 2233, Film ID 871 for duplicate footage. - Copied From
- negative
- Film Source
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 1361
Source Archive Number: 200 MTT 1150 Y,Z - Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:36:13
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