Overview
- Description
- A War Department Film. Army-Navy Screen Magazine, no. 75
Reel 1: Masses of children wandering in war-ravaged cities begging, stealing, and scavenging for food. CUs mental and physically retarded children. Portraits of the "next generation", comparisons to fascist leaders of WWII. Empty fields marking the site of Lidice, Czechoslovakia. Women survivors of the Lidice massacre at gravesite. Nazi footage of Hitler Youth, Hitler, von Rundstedt speech. CUs starving children. Packed courtrooms at Nuremburg, Germany and trials of captured SS men. Hitler speech (narrated in English). Ruins of German cities, destruction. Emphatic narration of "rebirth" shown against images of disease, filth, lice, typhus, hunger, etc. Corpses piled up in concentration camps, cremation. - Film Title
-
Seeds of Destiny
- Duration
- 00:09:48
- Date
-
Production:
1946
- Locale
-
Germany
Lidice, Czechoslovakia
Japan
Nuremberg, Germany
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
- Contributor
-
Director:
Gene Fowler Jr.
Producer: United States. Army. Signal Corps.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Genre/Form
- Propaganda.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Fair
- Time Code
- 01:01:15:00 to 01:11:03:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 928 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 928 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 928 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 928 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large- Preservation
Preservation 928 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 928 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 928 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 928 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
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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.
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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
- Writer: Art Arthur
Film raised over $200,000,000 for UNRRA and won an Academy Award in 1947 for Best Documentary - Short Subjects. - Copied From
- 35mm; b/w
- Film Source
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 1500
Source Archive Number: 111 SM 75 R1 - Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 08:03:58
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