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Celebrating May Day

Film | Accession Number: 2009.205.1 | RG Number: RG-60.4939 | Film ID: 2879

Crowd marching (summer attire), swastikas, acrobat on high-wire at Prater Garden (most likely). Maypole. Fireworks.

Image
Film Title
Amateuraufnahmen Wien, Fruehjahr 1938
Film Alternate Title
Amateur shots in Vienna, Spring 1938
Duration
00:00:57
Date
Event:  1938 May 01
Locale
Vienna, Austria
Language
Silent
Genre/Form
Amateur.
Credit
Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Österreichisches Filmmuseum

About This Film

Contributor
Camera Operator: Walter Nitsche
Biography
At the time of the Anschluss, Walter Nitsche was 20 years old and a student at the Höhere Staats-Gewerbeschule at Schellinggasse 13 in Vienna's 1st district. He graduated from school in June 1938 and shortly thereafter took up a job as a local construction supervisor at the "Road Administration of the Province of Lower Austria." At the end of November 1938, he was drafted into the Wehrmacht. Walter Nitsche became an American prisoner of war in 1944, from which he was released on June 1, 1946. It is unlikely that Nitsche was a member of the NSDAP or one of its sub-organizations. Research in this regard in archives and private documents was fruitless and nothing is known about this within the family.
B&W / Color
Black & White
Image Quality
Mixed
Time Code
01:02:56:00 to 01:03:53:00
Film Format
  • Preservation
    • Preservation 2879 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
    Preservation 2879 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Special Collection
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive

Keywords and Subjects

Administrative History

Legal Status
Permanent Collection
Film Provenance
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received a HDCam copy of the original 9.5mm film from the Austrian Film Museum in May 2009. The donation to the Austrian Film Museum included six additional reels of 9.5mm footage.
Copied From
9.5mm Pathex, pos, b/w, silent
Film Source
Österreichisches Filmmuseum
File Number
Legacy Database File: 5342
Source Archive Number: Sig. 0019-0174

Rights and Restrictions

Conditions on Access
This archival media can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations.
Copyright
Österreichisches Filmmuseum
Conditions on Use
For permissions, contact the Film Museum at kontakt@filmmuseum.at

 
Record last modified: 2022-07-28 21:59:27
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