March of Time -- outtakes -- Mass graves, monument, ceremony

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 1997.134.1 | RG Number: RG-60.1166 | Film ID: 51

Overview

Description: Somber looking men with flags. The bald man on whom the camera focuses and who gives the speech is Jozef Cyrankiewicz, head of the Polish Socialist Party and later head of the Polish government. An Auschwitz survivor, he had been active in the Polish resistance and was arrested in 1941. 06:18:47 Unidentified man speaking, crowd watches. 06:09:57 Tombstone uncovered, Cyrankiewicz places a medal on the stone. 06:21:32 Panning shot of huge crowd, with people visible through the empty window frames of the damaged buildings. 06:22:35 Coat of arms. 06:22:48 Unidentified man giving speech. 06:23:40 Banner, crowd. 06:24:31 Men sit on rubble watching. 06:24:45 People looking into pit, mass grave. 06:26:43 People stand around talking. 06:27:07 Monument. Many people looking into mass graves. Among them is Dimitri Kudryavtsev, who headed many of the Soviet and Polish-Soviet investigations of many camps, inlcuding Majdanek and Auschwitz. He is most likely the heavyset man wearing a hat whom the camera focuses on. He later points at and speaks to some of the others about the mass graves.
Film Title: Hodgson's Poland
Duration: 00:11:20
Date: Event: 10/11/1947
Production: 1947
Locale: Poland
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: Jimmy Hodgson

Language: Silent
Genre/Form: Outtakes.
B&W / Color: Black & White
Image Quality: Good
Time Code: 06:17:46:00 to 06:29:06:00
Film Format: Master
Master 51 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Master 51 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Master 51 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Master 51 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation
Preservation 51 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 51 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 51 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 51 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.

Keyword: ATROCITIES BANNERS CROWDS FLAGS GRAVES MARCH OF TIME MASS GRAVES MEMORIALS PITS POLAND POLES RESISTERS/RESISTANCE (POLISH) RUBBLE RUINS SOCIALISTS/SOCIALISM SPEECHES SURVIVORS (POLISH) WAR CRIMES COMMISSIONS

Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Film Provenance: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased the film excerpts from the National Archives and Records Administration in August 1997.
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: 1812
Source Archive Number: 200 MTT 1479 I
Special Collection: Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive