Overview
- Description
- October 18, 1947: Polish authorities at funeral of American soldiers in a Catholic Polish church. Clergy, US military, people on pews in church. 03:01:17 Coffin with American flag over it. Religious ceremony, including American Ambassador Stanton Griffis, Mr. and Mrs. Crocker, and Edward Raymond, Agricultural Attache at the Embassy. 03:02:14 American soldiers salute. Polish soldiers and Polish flag. Wreaths carried out. Clergy leave. 03:03:19 Putting wreaths in hearse. Polish officers shaking hands with American officers. 03:04:16 Military procession, coffin on road in Warsaw. 03:05:15 November 1, 1947. People buying flowers at entrance of main military cemetery in Warsaw. 03:05:55 Sign with Polish eagle and "Cmentarz Wojskowy" on pillar of main gate. People taking flowers into graveyard, planting flowers. Old woman reading Bible in front of her son's tomb. Armed guards and girls around symbolic tomb erected in the main alley of the cemetery. 03:07:08 Russian military cemetery near Łódź, horse and cart pass monument with hammer and sickle and red star. 03:07:43 Man weeding around tombs.
- Film Title
-
Hodgson's Poland
- Duration
- 00:08:01
- Date
-
Event:
October 18-November 1, 1947
Production: 1947
- Locale
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Warsaw,
Poland
Łódź [Litzmannstadt], Poland
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
Physical Details
- Language
- Silent
- Genre/Form
- Outtakes.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Good
- Time Code
- 03:00:05:00 to 03:08:06:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 54 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Master 54 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Master 54 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Master 54 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small- Preservation
Preservation 54 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 54 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 54 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 54 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
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- Copyright
- Public Domain
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- 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 the film excerpts from the National Archives and Records Administration in August 1997.
- Note
- Cameraman's dope sheet available in departmental files.
- Copied From
- 35mm
- Film Source
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 1823
Source Archive Number: 200 MTT 1479 L - Special Collection
-
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:45:30
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