Berestowitz, Poland: street scenes; people
Overview
- Description
- Intertitles appear in Yiddish and English. Scenes of small town with horse-drawn carts, people, houses, and dirt roads. "A Glimpse Around the Market" Similar scenes of town with peasants, horses, wagons, houses. "Peasant Youths out for a lark in the big city..." Five boys walk down dirt road, houses line the street. "When the pretty girls go walking, the boys go walking too." Pan of street with people and houses. "Shawls" "The Synagogue Center" VAR views of synagogue building. Men talk in the street, gesture at camera. MCU, woman in front of a house. MCU, family with children at sign reading ZYDOWSKA BIBLIOTEKA, I.L. PERECA. VAR shots of townspeople. "It's odd but they're really getting along...feminine friend" Elderly women chat. Family. "Photographed near his house" MCU, elderly man (rabbi?), shot from below. Young attractive woman lights a cigarette, townspeople glare at her. VAR shots of people, some posing in front of houses or stores.
- Duration
- 00:04:08
- Date
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Event:
1920
- Locale
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Berestowitz,
Poland
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Cinema Arts, Inc.
Physical Details
- Language
- Silent
- Genre/Form
- Unedited.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Good
- Time Code
- 00:09:41:00 to 00:13:49:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 250 Video: U-matic - 3/4 inch - NTSC
Master 250 Video: U-matic - 3/4 inch - NTSC
Master 250 Video: U-matic - 3/4 inch - NTSC
Master 250 Video: U-matic - 3/4 inch - NTSC- Preservation
Preservation 250 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 250 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 250 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 250 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- This archival media can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations.
- Copyright
- John E. Allen, Inc.
- Conditions on Use
- For permissions, contact John E. Allen, Inc. at jeainc@gmail.com with specific footage requests. Rates are based upon distribution and duration of use.
- Copyright Holder
- John E. Allen, Inc.
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this from John E. Allen, Inc. in March 1992. The footage was obtained under order numbers 1666-w, 1666.2-w, and 1666.4-w.
- Note
- See partial duplicate footage in Story 2571, Film ID 2334 with the same TC.
JEA order #1666-W - Copied From
- b/w nitrate
- Film Source
- John E. Allen, Inc.
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 2647
Source Archive Number: 1624-1-2 (Berestowitz) - Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:58:38
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