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Cracow

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 1996.166 | RG Number: RG-60.5083 | Film ID: 3891, 3892, 3893, 3894

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    Cracow

    Overview

    Description
    Scenes of Kraków, Poland, including Nisko, Piotrkow Trybunalski, Wieliczka, and Mielec.

    FILM ID 3891 -- White 85 Nisko 1-7
    00:20 A gloved hand holds up "Nisko 1” in front of a snowy backdrop. Snowy fields in a rural area. Simple wooden fence with low, grey buildings on the horizon. "Nisko 2” Snowy fields. Riverbank. “Nisko 2” The river. Snowy fields, with one tree, bare of leaves, in the middle. Two trucks drive along a road in the far-off horizon. More trees and the river. “Nisko 3” The river. Another snowy field. Trees; some appear to still have leaves. Patches of green grass are visible through the snow. Road sign: “Nisko 4, Rzeszow 63.” Paved roadway. A car drives along this road towards and past the camera. CU of the road sign. “Nisko 4” sign upside down in front of the shot. "Nisko 5” in front of the road sign. LS of the road sign. Shaky as the camera zooms in on a passing train. Street sign: “Janow Lub 16, Lublin 94.” Trucks. Snowy fields. INT of the car in which the cameraperson is riding. Image cuts out at 04:34.

    FILM ID 3892 -- White 85 Cracovie 99-103
    00:10 Crooked shot of low brick buildings, people walking along snowy sidewalks. “Wie 2 [Wielicka 2]” A large green and stone building with a big arched window. People in winter coats walk along the street in front. Truck. Family walks along the sidewalk; the woman pushes a stroller and they walk past a statue. Benches and stone buildings, including one with a tall spire. Many pedestrians. 01:45 Sound: a man says “It’s running.” "Cracovie 100” Bearded man with a cigarette in his mouth hits a boom mic with the sign. Parking lot and buildings. CU on sign: “Bohaterow Getta.” Snowflakes fall. Cars drive by. A woman runs across the street. A voice behind the camera says, “Stop.” More cars pass. Grey buildings, a parking lot, busy highway. Bearded man hits the boom with "Krakow, 100-A. Stop.” "Cracovie 101” Parking lot. Street. Silent. A streetcar. Buildings, a small square, many pedestrians. “Hotel Europejski” Pedestrians run to catch the streetcar. Large white building with columns. Yellow building with “PKP”sign. Pedestrians. Truck loaded with boxes. More pans. LS of the PKP building. INT of a car. Illegible slate. Image cuts out at 06:20.

    FILM ID 3893 -- White 85 Piotrkow Trybunalski
    00:20 People gathered outside of a low wooden building. Cows in a green field, farm. A tall red post with a sign: "Piotrkow Trybunalski.”The cameraperson walks forward. Shaky pan, then 360 view of farmhouses, cows, and a briefly-visible figure standing by the road. Image cuts out at 01:27.

    FILM ID 3894 -- Wieliczka and Mielec 1-6
    00:10 Driving along a snowy road; other cars and trucks. Signs: “Miasto I Gmina” “Wieliczka” “Turystow” “Wita” "Bochnia 30, Tarnow 72, Rzeszow 152, Medyka 250, Lwow 331.” Passing by trees and low houses. Brief INT of the car. “Mielec” windows of a building, sign: “Bar Starowmiejski.” Town square, surrounded by two-story buildings. Pedestrians. Red-brick building. People, bundled in warm clothing and hats, wait by a bus station shelter. Town square. Trucks, cars, and a tank. People board a bus. Driving on a rural road alongside train tracks and electrical towers. INT car. Two men riding in an open horse-drawn cart. Road sign: “Mielec.” The countryside from the inside of the car. Red-brick and wood farm-style buildings. Image cuts out at 06:20.
    Duration
    00:20:00
    Date
    Production: 
    1985
    Locale
    Krakow, Poland
    Credit
    Created by Claude Lanzmann during the filming of "Shoah," used by permission of USHMM and Yad Vashem
    Contributor
    Director: Claude Lanzmann
    Asst Camera: Corinna Coulmas
    Biography
    Claude Lanzmann was born in Paris to a Jewish family that immigrated to France from Eastern Europe. He attended the Lycée Blaise-Pascal in Clermont-Ferrand. His family went into hiding during World War II. He joined the French resistance at the age of 18 and fought in the Auvergne. Lanzmann opposed the French war in Algeria and signed a 1960 antiwar petition. From 1952 to 1959 he lived with Simone de Beauvoir. In 1963 he married French actress Judith Magre. Later, he married Angelika Schrobsdorff, a German-Jewish writer, and then Dominique Petithory in 1995. He is the father of Angélique Lanzmann, born in 1950, and Félix Lanzmann (1993-2017). Lanzmann's most renowned work, Shoah, is widely regarded as the seminal film on the subject of the Holocaust. He began interviewing survivors, historians, witnesses, and perpetrators in 1973 and finished editing the film in 1985. In 2009, Lanzmann published his memoirs under the title "Le lièvre de Patagonie" (The Patagonian Hare). He was chief editor of the journal "Les Temps Modernes," which was founded by Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, until his death on July 5, 2018. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/postscript/claude-lanzmann-changed-the-history-of-filmmaking-with-shoah
    From 1974 to 1984, Corinna Coulmas was the assistant director to Claude Lanzmann for his film "Shoah." She was born in Hamburg in 1948. She studied theology, philosophy, and sociology at the Sorbonne and Hebrew language and Jewish culture at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and INALCO in Paris. She now lives in France and publishes about the Five Senses. http://www.corinna-coulmas.eu/english/home-page.html

    Physical Details

    Language
    Silent
    Genre/Form
    Outtakes.
    B&W / Color
    Color
    Image Quality
    Excellent
    Film Format
    • Master
    • Master 3892 Film: negative - 16 mm - silent - color - original negative
      Master 3894 Film: negative - 16 mm - silent - color - original negative
      Master 3891 Film: negative - 16 mm - silent - color - original negative
      Master 3893 Film: negative - 16 mm - silent - color - original negative
      Master 3892 Film: full-coat mag track - 16 mm - acetate
      Master 3894 Film: positive - 16 mm - silent - b&w - workprint
      Master 3891 Film: positive - 16 mm - silent - b&w - workprint
      Master 3893 Film: positive - 16 mm - silent - b&w - workprint
      Master 3892 Film: positive - 16 mm - silent - b&w - workprint
      Master 3892 Film: negative - 16 mm - silent - color - original negative
      Master 3894 Film: negative - 16 mm - silent - color - original negative
      Master 3891 Film: negative - 16 mm - silent - color - original negative
      Master 3893 Film: negative - 16 mm - silent - color - original negative
      Master 3892 Film: full-coat mag track - 16 mm - acetate
      Master 3894 Film: positive - 16 mm - silent - b&w - workprint
      Master 3891 Film: positive - 16 mm - silent - b&w - workprint
      Master 3893 Film: positive - 16 mm - silent - b&w - workprint
      Master 3892 Film: positive - 16 mm - silent - b&w - workprint
      Master 3892 Film: negative - 16 mm - silent - color - original negative
      Master 3894 Film: negative - 16 mm - silent - color - original negative
      Master 3891 Film: negative - 16 mm - silent - color - original negative
      Master 3893 Film: negative - 16 mm - silent - color - original negative
      Master 3892 Film: full-coat mag track - 16 mm - acetate
      Master 3894 Film: positive - 16 mm - silent - b&w - workprint
      Master 3891 Film: positive - 16 mm - silent - b&w - workprint
      Master 3893 Film: positive - 16 mm - silent - b&w - workprint
      Master 3892 Film: positive - 16 mm - silent - b&w - workprint
      Master 3892 Film: negative - 16 mm - silent - color - original negative
      Master 3894 Film: negative - 16 mm - silent - color - original negative
      Master 3891 Film: negative - 16 mm - silent - color - original negative
      Master 3893 Film: negative - 16 mm - silent - color - original negative
      Master 3892 Film: full-coat mag track - 16 mm - acetate
      Master 3894 Film: positive - 16 mm - silent - b&w - workprint
      Master 3891 Film: positive - 16 mm - silent - b&w - workprint
      Master 3893 Film: positive - 16 mm - silent - b&w - workprint
      Master 3892 Film: positive - 16 mm - silent - b&w - workprint

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    You do not require further permission from the Museum to access this archival media.
    Copyright
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Yad Vashem, State of Israel
    Conditions on Use
    Third party must sign the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's SHOAH Outtakes Film License Agreement in order to reproduce and use film footage. Contact filmvideo@ushmm.org

    Keywords & Subjects

    Administrative Notes

    Film Provenance
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased the Shoah outtakes from Claude Lanzmann on October 11, 1996. The Claude Lanzmann Shoah Collection is now jointly owned by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Yad Vashem - The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority.
    Note
    Claude Lanzmann spent twelve years locating survivors, perpetrators, and eyewitnesses for his nine and a half hour film Shoah released in 1985. Without archival footage, Shoah weaves together extraordinary testimonies to render the step-by-step machinery of the destruction of European Jewry. Critics have called it "a masterpiece" and a "monument against forgetting." The Claude Lanzmann SHOAH Collection consists of roughly 185 hours of interview outtakes and 35 hours of location filming.

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    Claude Lanzmann
    Record last modified:
    2024-02-21 07:51:20
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