Overview
- Description
- Excerpt from "Genocide" documentary film. Still photos and archival footage fade into one another. Immigration. Refugees. Einstein on boat. 06:21 Chamberlain. Boycott. Newspaper headlines. Kristallnacht (the audio recording of C. Brook Peters reporting the events of Kristallnacht was recreated for the film - it is NOT an original radio broadcast) Destruction of synagogues. Newspaper headlines. Propaganda posters. 06:22:55 Einsatzgruppen murder (long, graphic). Military trucks, peasants. Mass graves at Belsen, bulldozers. German civilians forced to confront atrocities.
***Other parts of the film may be recreations.**** - Film Title
-
Genocide
- Duration
- 00:04:10
- Date
-
Production:
1981
- Locale
-
Belsen,
Germany
Germany
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of David Haspel & Associates
- Contributor
-
Producer:
Wiesenthal Center
Physical Details
- Language
- Silent
- Genre/Form
- Documentary.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Mixed
- Time Code
- 06:20:30:00 to 06:24:40:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 158 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 158 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 158 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 158 Video: One Inch - NTSC- Preservation
Preservation 158 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 158 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 158 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 158 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
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- Conditions on Access
- You do not require further permission from the Museum to access this archival media.
- Conditions on Use
- The Museum is in the process of determining the possible use restrictions that may apply to material(s) in this collection.
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased the collection from various sources in 1988. Footage was obtained as research for the United States Holocaust Memorial Campaign's promotional video called "A Campaign to Remember" by David Haspel & Associates.
- Note
- The Wiesenthal Center produced the Academy Award-winning documentary "Genocide" in 1981. It is narrated by Elizabeth Taylor and Orson Welles and introduced by Simon Wiesenthal.
Excerpt, starting from 20 minutes into the documentary. USHMM Wild Collection contains entire film "Genocide" with narration. - Copied From
- 35mm; b/w
- Film Source
- David Haspel & Associates
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 2019
- Special Collection
-
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 08:08:30
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