Book burning
Overview
- Description
- Paramount News Issue 84. University students collect and burn "un-German" books. Various INT CUs as black-listed works are gathered. CU, books to be destroyed. 01:02:08 Night scenes showing torchlight procession and books being thrown into bonfire (familiar scenes). Various shots. At night, crowd gathered outside building. Lights directed at building, parade, crowd heiling.
- Film Title
-
Germans Burn Books
- Duration
- 00:02:30
- Date
-
Event:
1933
- Locale
-
Berlin,
Germany
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of The Sherman Grinberg Film Library
- Contributor
-
Producer:
Paramount News
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Newsreels.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Fair
- Time Code
- 01:01:15:00 to 01:03:45:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 2639 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Master 2639 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Master 2639 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Master 2639 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
- Sherman Grinberg Film Library
- Conditions on Use
- Contact Sherman Grinberg Film Library at lance@shermangrinberg.com for permission to reproduce and use this footage.
- Copyright Holder
- Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this from Grinberg Film Libraries in 2002. The footage was obtained as research for the Museum's special exhibition in 2003 on Nazi bookburning, "Fighting the Fires of Hate."
- Note
- Grinberg record indicates that there is supposed to be sound, an off-screen voice explaining the destruction of the condemned books written by world-famous authors as well as crowd cheering. The USHMM version does not have sound.
- Copied From
- dupe neg
- Film Source
- Sherman Grinberg Film Library
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 3897
Source Archive Number: PMN 3028 - Special Collection
-
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 08:00:25
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