Placing grave markers at Lidice, postwar
Overview
- Description
- Amateur footage. Opening shot, LS from high angle to green valley below, many Czech flags, on tall flagpoles waving in the valley below. People gathered in the valley, milling about. MCU, women, children and a nurse, with their backs to the camera standing outside of what appears to be a rescue or ambulance vehicle, the vehicle is bright red with a blue stripe, lettering on the truck is illegible due to poor image quality. MCU, a man and two women seated on a horse drawn carriage, they are all wearing shawls, their heads are covered and they look away from the camera. VS, men, women and children milling around in the field. CU, 3 women wearing kerchiefs, they smile awkwardly for the camera. LS, crowd of people in the valley. MS, young woman and older woman putting a cross in the ground (grave marker). Once the marker is placed, the older woman poses next to it. There is writing on the cross, but it is illegible due to the poor image quality.
- Duration
- 00:01:25
- Locale
-
Czechoslovakia
Lidice, Czechoslovakia
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of The National Center for Jewish Film at Brandeis University
Physical Details
- Language
- Silent
- Genre/Form
- Unedited.
- B&W / Color
- Color
- Image Quality
- Fair
- Time Code
- 01:14:39:00 to 01:16:03:26
- Film Format
- Master
Master 2319 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - color - NTSC
Master 2319 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - color - NTSC
Master 2319 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - color - NTSC
Master 2319 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - color - NTSC
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- This archival media can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations.
- Copyright
- National Center for Jewish Film
- Conditions on Use
- Contact NCJF at pontius@brandeis.edu for permission to reproduce and use this film.
- Copyright Holder
- National Center for Jewish Film
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this video collection from the National Center for Jewish Film for general reference in July 2000.
- Copied From
- 16mm, silent
- Film Source
- National Center for Jewish Film
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 2719
- Special Collection
-
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 08:02:40
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn1001282
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