Overview
- Description
- Using Wall Camera: US Embassy, Post Office. Mail bags arriving from French post office. Mail being sorted. Clerk from Military Attache's office comes to collect mail. Asst. mail clerk J. Dawson Kiernan opens diplomatic pouch. Mail bags to be shipped to Moscow and Madrid. CU, Chief mail clerk E.L. Knack taking mail from diplomatic pouch and sorting. CU, EXT post office doors with sign, "Pouch Room - No Admittance" and "Mail Room - Bureau de Postes" Archive Vaults in basement of Embassy, Asst. Superintendent Anderson comes down corridor testing doors. CU Anderson opening and closing vault door in corridor of Archive vaults. Notorial Department, Four men sitting at desk of Vice-Consul John Wood. Visitor asks clerk re: notorization of document. Visitor signing document. CU sign, "Tax Returns" and clerk typing. CU board reading "American Passports, Registrations, Notorials, Mail Information." Passport Department, Two women presenting passports. Vice Consul Trowbridge receiving application for new passport from secretary, administers oath of allegiance to Miss Diana Reeve seated at desk. Bulletin board with man reading Quarantine regulations. Visitors Mail Department, two visitors asking for mail. CU, Clerk and mailboxes.
- Film Title
-
State Department
- Duration
- 00:08:26
- Date
-
Event:
1938 July 25
- Locale
-
Paris,
France
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
- Contributor
-
Producer:
March of Time, Inc.
Physical Details
- Language
- Silent
- Genre/Form
- Outtakes.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Fair
- Time Code
- 05:01:14:00 to 05:09:40:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 926 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Master 926 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Master 926 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Master 926 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small- Preservation
Preservation 926 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 926 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 926 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 926 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
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- Copyright
- Public Domain
- Conditions on Use
- To the best of the Museum's knowledge, this material is in the public domain. You do not require further permission from the Museum to reproduce or use this material.
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 September 1994.
- Note
- Cameraman's dope sheet available in departmental files.
- Film Source
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 1493
Source Archive Number: 200 MTT 665 O - Special Collection
-
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:44:00
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