Overview
- Description
- Outtakes (3 reels) of the Lourié plywood factory and daily family life in Vienna, Austria in 1929.
- Date
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Event:
1929
- Locale
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Vienna,
Austria
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Museum of Jewish Heritage
- Contributor
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Subject:
Leopold Lourié
Physical Details
- Language
- Silent
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Excellent
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- You do not require further permission from the Museum to access this archival media.
- Copyright
- Museum of Jewish Heritage
- Conditions on Use
- For permission to reproduce and use the materials, contact the Museum of Jewish Heritage at collections@mjhnyc.org with the subject line "Reference Inquiry" or "Licensing Request".
- Copyright Holder
- Museum of Jewish Heritage
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum digitized several amateur film originals from the Museum of Jewish Heritage (New York) collections in 2019-2020.
- Note
- Refer to MJH sound documentation videotape with Ms. Hilda Lourie (the wife of Leopold's son Paul) describing the activity and people appearing in the films.
- Copied From
- 35mm bw dupe neg
- Film Source
- Museum of Jewish Heritage
- File Number
- Source Archive Number: MI 92-0032M
Source Archive Number: MI 92-0034M
Source Archive Number: MI 92-0033M
Lender Number: IL2019.1.8 - Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
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- 2024-02-21 07:59:20
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Also in Lourié Family Collection
Extensive film coverage of the Jewish Lourié family before World War II. The family made extraordinary achievements in science, philosophy, theology, and the arts. The two small gauge 9.5mm home movies show a family visit to relatives in Belarus in August 1934. The 35mm film and outtakes show the Lourié plywood factory and daily family life in Vienna, Austria in the years 1929 and 1934.
Belarus, 1934
Film
Lourie family visits Pinsk and Deniskovichi, Belarus in August 1934. Outdoor market. Crowds walk and stand in the market. Three women with bundles on their backs walking in ankle-high water. Horse-drawn carts in the water. Men and women in boats/raft. Scenery and people on boats filmed from a moving boat. Car drives through shallow water and stops. People are helped onto the shore, men push the car in the water. Three men and one woman stand and talk.
Lourié & Co. factory in Vienna; Birthday celebration
Film
The Lourié plywood factory and daily family life in Vienna, Austria in the year 1929. "Ein Familienfilm aus dem Jahre 1929 Vienna, Part 1" "Hergestellt durch: Hans Brueckner Wien I. Operngassse 2." "Die Holzbearbeitungsfabrik LOURIE & CO. in Wien X." Lourié & Co. was founded in 1899 by Leopold Lourié. Pan of factory in the industrial neighborhood, tour of exterior, factory operations with businessmen. 01:07:56 The Lourié family celebrates the seventieth birthday of Leopold in the Dornbach neighborhood of Vienna. Garden party. Titles in German: 01:01:02 “Gegrundet 1899 Leopold Lourie” 01:01:15 “um 8 Uhr Morgens” 01:01:56 “Leopold Lourie im alter von 70 Jahren im Jahre 1929” 01:02:57 “Totalansicht dear Fabriksanlage” 01:07:22 “Die beiden ersten Mitabeiter: Prokurist Leopold Singer und Werkmeister Spandl” 01:07:58 “Die vorfeier des siebzigsten. Gerburtstages in Dornbach” 01:07:56 “Onkel Alexander 73 Jahre alt!” “Ende. Hans Bruener Film”
Lourié family life in 1934
Film
Title: "5 Jahre Spaeter". Lourié family life in Vienna in 1934. Automobile. 01:01:27 "In der Zwengalle” Lourié’s home address #17, film pans residential neighborhood from rooftop perspective, Leopold Lourié and wife host guests. Family scenes.
Visiting family in Pinsk, 1934
Film
The Lourié family visits relatives in Pinsk, Belarus in August 1934, including shots of the family's plywood factory in Pinsk. Woman looks at large plaques written in Hebrew, outdoors. Two pre-teen girls climb over large logs, walk out of a building and look at another building. Pan of the town of Pinsk and the family factory. Shoreline filmed from a moving boat, and men in canoes. On shore, one of the girls and a woman walk over as men bring large logs onto the shore. 5:02 Three men talk, one in a suit. Lourie plywood factory process: large logs, bark removed from smaller logs by two men with a hand tool, inside the factory a machine strips the logs into large sheets, workers handle and stack plywood, piles of plywood loaded onto train car (13:02), train moves out. 14:52 Fire-fighters line up and climb ladders. Workers eat outside. Men supervise factory activities. Girl walks on piles of logs.
