Overview
- Description
- Life in Czechoslovakia, street scenes, urban life. VSs, monument of President Woodrow Wilson in park and traffic passing. Various shop windows with people looking in (grocery and butcher shops). City street, cars, streetcars, pedestrians. People reading newspapers in cases on the walls. Shop in Jewish quarter. Bata Shoe Co. store on the main street called Vaclavske, taken at night--neon sign of illuminated map showing London, Paris, New York, and Prague marked on it. VSs, buildings in old quarter of Prague. Building, churches, clocktower. Czech children on merry go-round, riding tanks and guns instead of horses. Construction work on tram line in streeet. People buying fruits and vegetables in open market. Women oversees stand, glances uncomfortably at camera. License plate CS. Jewish store, Ebrahim Lobe-EXT of synagogue and Jewish Town Hall. CU, clocks, one Hebrew going counter-clockwise. Statue of Golem. Statue of Rabbi Low. Open street, twin spires of Church of Tyn. Three general views of Prague and main street Vaclavske.
- Film Title
-
Czechoslovakia-Prelude to Conquest
- Duration
- 00:06:46
- Date
-
Event:
March 11-24, 1938
Production: 1938
- Locale
-
Prague,
Czechoslovakia
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
- Contributor
-
Producer:
March of Time, Inc.
Camera Operator: Rebiere
Physical Details
- Language
- Silent
- Genre/Form
- Outtakes.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Good
- Time Code
- 05:01:12:00 to 05:07:58:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 865 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Master 865 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Master 865 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Master 865 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small- Preservation
Preservation 865 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 865 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 865 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 865 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
- Outtake from edited March of Time story "Prelude to Conquest."
Cameraman's dope sheet available in departmental files. - Copied From
- 35mm, neg
- Film Source
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 1568
Source Archive Number: 200 MTT 638 A - Special Collection
-
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:50:41
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