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Crowd outside of synagogue in Moscow

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 2014.534 | RG Number: RG-60.1833 | Film ID: 4169

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    Crowd outside of synagogue in Moscow

    Overview

    Description
    People of all ages stand on the steps outside of Choral Synagogue in Moscow, located at Bolshoy Spasoglinishchevskiy lane, 10, during the High Holidays. Multiple people wear the tallit. A man using crutches moves down the front steps of the building, unable to use the lower part of his right leg. People move out of the synagogue, men put out their hands, begging for money and some give. As more people file out of the synagogue, the beggars continue to put out their hands, becoming very aggressive with one woman. She attempts to push them back. People stand in the streets while others keep moving out and down the steps. CU of some Jews.
    Duration
    00:04:10
    Date
    Event:  Fall 1934
    Locale
    Moscow, Soviet Union
    Credit
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, gift of Peter Gessner
    Contributor
    Camera Operator: Robert J. Gessner
    Biography
    Robert Gessner was born on October 21, 1907 in Escanaba, MI. He obtained a B.A. from the University of Michigan in 1929 and a M.A. from Columbia University in 1930. He started teaching at New York University in 1930. He married Doris Lindeman on May 27, 1938 and had two children, Peter and Stephen. Mr. Gessner was a screen playwright and the author of several books, including "Massacre" (1931); "Broken Arrow" (1933); "Some of My Best Friends are Jews" (1936); "Treason" (1944); "Youth is the Time" (1945). He was a pioneer educator in motion pictures as an art form. Gessner founded the Motion Picture Department (now Cinema Studies) at NYU in 1941, the first four-year film curriculum leading to a B.A. degree in motion picture studies in the United States. He finished his book "The Moving Image, A Guide to Cinematic Literacy" before he died in June 1968.

    Physical Details

    Language
    Silent
    Genre/Form
    Amateur.
    B&W / Color
    Black & White
    Image Quality
    Good
    Film Format
    • Master
    • Master 4169 Film: positive - 16 mm - b&w - reversal original - B-wind - Kodak
      Master 4169 Film: positive - 16 mm - b&w - reversal original - B-wind - Kodak
      Master 4169 Film: positive - 16 mm - b&w - reversal original - B-wind - Kodak
      Master 4169 Film: positive - 16 mm - b&w - reversal original - B-wind - Kodak

    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
    Conditions on Use
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum places no restrictions on use of this material. You do not require further permission from the Museum to reproduce or use this film footage.

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    Administrative Notes

    Film Provenance
    Robert Gessner was a Jewish American screenwriter and author of several books. He traveled to several European countries in 1934 and took films and photographs of his trip. His son, Peter, donated the collection to the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in November 2014.
    Note
    Robert Gessner published a book in 1936 about his overseas travels called "Some of my Best Friends Are Jews"

    See RG-60.1824 and RG-60.1832 for more footage of the Moscow Choral Synagogue.
    Film Source
    Mr. Peter Gessner
    Record last modified:
    2024-02-21 08:00:37
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