Overview
- Description
- Montage showing in contrast the peaceful life in Germany before and life in Germany during Hitler. Two barefooted, weary men sleeping in park. Woman walking through alley looking in garbage cans. Children in slum street. Boys training in the Nazi Farm Corps. LS, fountain in park. CU, plow breaking ground. 01:12:30 Night scenes: Nazis on the march; burning of books. 1 shot of fires inside synagogue (authentic?). Jews being beaten in streets. HS, German troops, Wehrmacht, on parade. (Good) Montage: Activity in German factory; Montage, German Luftwaffe and Panzer attack. Tanks superimposed over corpses of civilians. Burning cities. Pans, women running through the ruined streets of the Berlin city. Women and children running through bomb-wrecked street. Pans, devastated area in large German city. LS, bomb wrecked street heaped high with rubble; 01:14:44 lone man walking through. German digging potatoes in gardens; watering gardens, ruins in bg. Women clearing rubble. 01:15:31 Newspapers produced by M.G. roll off presses. Binding of booklets. Sculptured head of Goethe superimposed over books by Goethe and Schiller. "How will it be? Like this? or like that?" Many contrasting images, including bookburning in '33. "The choice is ours. It's up to you. It's up to everyone who loves peace and freedom."
- Film Title
-
It's Up to You (Zeigt Film)
- Duration
- 00:05:30
- Date
-
Production:
1948
- Locale
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Berlin,
Germany
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
- Contributor
-
Producer:
United States. Army. Signal Corps.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Genre/Form
- Documentary.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Good
- Time Code
- 01:11:30:00 to 01:17:00:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 2570 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
Master 2570 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
Master 2570 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
Master 2570 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large- Preservation
Preservation 2570 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2570 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2570 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2570 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.
- 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.
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this from the National Archives and Records Administration in 2002.The footage was obtained as research for the Museum's special exhibition in 2003 on Nazi bookburning, "Fighting the Fires of Hate."
- Copied From
- DBVT; b/w
- Film Source
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 3651
Source Archive Number: 111 ADC 10139 - Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:44:46
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