Overview
- Description
- The scene opens on a big Red Cross flag in a cavernous room. The narrator says that this is the Red Cross center in Geneva. The camera pans down to show rows and rows of filing cabinets, where volunteers work with index cards in the file drawers. Signs indicate the departments for various countries. Workers in the correspondence section, where letters to and from prisoners and their relatives are routed. CU of a woman attaching a photograph of a man to a letter with a paperclip. Another view of the filing cabinets.
01:02:35 A few seconds of another part of this newsreel (Not ordered by USHMM) - Film Title
-
Ufa Auslandstonwoche 489
- Duration
- 00:00:57
- Date
-
Event:
1940-1941
Production: 1941 January
- Locale
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Geneva,
Switzerland
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Bundesarchiv Filmarchiv
- Contributor
-
Producer:
UFA
Physical Details
- Language
- German
- Genre/Form
- Newsreels.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Fair
- Time Code
- 01:01:46:00 to 01:02:43:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 2890 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
Master 2890 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
Master 2890 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
Master 2890 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large- Preservation
Preservation 2890 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 2890 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 2890 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 2890 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small- User
User 2890 Video: DVD
User 2890 Video: DVD
User 2890 Video: DVD
User 2890 Video: DVD
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- You do not require further permission from the Museum to access this archival media.
- Copyright
- Federal Republic of Germany. Bundesarchiv.
- Conditions on Use
- Researchers who wish to use this footage should contact the Bundesarchiv Filmarchiv at filmbenutzung@bundesarchiv.de to sign a release, or submit the online request form at: https://www.bundesarchiv.de/EN/Content/Downloads/request-for-use-av-material.pdf?__blob=publicationFile
- Copyright Holder
- Federal Republic of Germany. Bundesarchiv.
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased the film excerpts from the Imperial War Museum in October 2009.
- Copied From
- DigiBeta
- Film Source
- Imperial War Museums
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 5321
Source Archive Number: GWY 139-02 R2 - Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:58:21
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn1004416
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