United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000846
• English
• 1946
• Updated 1 year ago

Shots of the Allied Commission entering the camp in Karlovy Vary and being received by the Commandant of the camp at the entrance. LS the Czech-American Commission arriving at the camp and watching the unloading of the luggage. Dr. Kuchera, representative of the Minister of Interior; American Lt. Col. Fye; Miss Jinda Cermakova; Lt. Schoenbrunn; Col. Monzer walking to a place were German luggage is loaded. MS Commission speaking to Germans and looking at luggage. LS Germans loading luggage on lorries. LS distribution of milk to the German mothers for their babies in the camp. CU Mother with ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000847
• English
• 1946
• Updated 1 year ago

VSs, the late Thomas G. Masaryk, father of Czechoslovakia, at his desk signing a document presented to him by his secretary, Dr. Samal. MSs, CUs, same as above. CU, Masaryk talking with Edvard Benes. VSs, Masaryk in his library. HAS, pan of Prague. Pan, Prague Square with statue in picture at all times. Tracking shots of streets of old Prague. HASs, bridges in Prague. Tracking shots, statues in Prague. Tracking shots, street scenes in Prague. HAS, part of the city. MS, people walking on the street. LS, city, wipes to HAS of park. MS, from rear, people on park bench. LS, city, wipes to LS of...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000848
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

LS, war wrecked buildings in Prague, debris in FG, gutted windows of building, wrecked wall of church. LS, cathedral framed through building debris, destroyed rooftops. HAS, destruction in Prague. Pan, square with people walking. Pan, shots of devastation of buildings in Prague, steel skeletons. CU, workmen picking up shovels to clean up. CUs, picks, shovels, electric drills used to clear piles of debris. Men using torches to break down girders, tossing building bricks. Crane dragging broken concrete. Workers constructing factory, bricklayers, carpenters, skylight. CUs, machine tools.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000849
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

(Czech Newsreel Material) EXT shot of the raising and lowering of the Czech flag over Czech Palace. Two shots of voting tickets being collected from members of Parliament in Vladislav Hall at the castle. Travelling shot of Edvard Benes entering Czech Parliament, mounts rostrum and bows to applauding members of the National Assembly. MS of Benes on rostrum of Parliament, during the playing of the Czech anthem. Shots of members of the Czech Parliament standing at attention. MS of President Benes getting into his car at Town Hall Square. EXTs of Czech Cathedral, people entering by stairway, fl...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000850
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

01:01:15 568 S: Official at desk. Well-dressed men and women waiting to have their passports checked, visa?, immigration? Group of men standing/talking. Official recording passport information on a chart. Official at door checking eye color and visas. 01:05:18 568 U: Various shots of a group of men, waving hats. (staged)

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000851
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

(Leblay camera) Neville Chamberlain's trip to Berchtesgaden to see Hitler, 09/15/1938. VAR, Chamberlain at Heston Aerodrome, walking towards plane, delivering a speech into microphones. VAR, Lord and Lady Halifax, Herr Kordt, German Charge d'Affaires, and others. Chamberlain gets into plane. Plane taking off. (Leblay camera) Chamberlain returns to Heston Aerodrome from Berchtesgaden, 09/16/1938. Crowds of press awaiting Chamberlain's arrival. Lord and Lady Halifax awaiting arrival. Shots of plane arriving, Chamberlain getting out, reading King's message, delivering speech, surrounded by pre...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000852
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

Intertitle: "The German Situation: Ministers attend hastily summoned cabinet meeting at 10 Downing St." Count Hailshman. British Cabinet crisis on Hitler's Austrian grab. Chamberlain, Eden, Simon, Hoare, Hailsham, etc. arriving at 10 Downing St. for cabinet meeting. Photographers.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000853
• English
• 1938
• Updated 1 year ago

Bodleian Library; Ashmolean Museum. Bell being rung in Bodleian Library to announce closing time. CU Sir William Patrick reading large book. Men walking down aisle between book shelves. Students reading. VAR people studying. CU man reading ancient MSS. CU MSS. Foundation of building. Men digging sand away for foundations. Men waterproofing a wall. Men at work with barrows, shovels. General view of excavation, showing Sheldonian Theatre in BG. Old Ashmolean Museum: Shot of elaborate silver microscope made for George III. CU card describing microscope, with picture of George Adams, the maker....

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000854
• English
• 1938
• Updated 1 year ago

563 AA (02:01:14) Studio scenes. Exchanging US dollars and German marks. Drawing: "Design for Summer Camp, German American Bund, Fritz Kuhn, National Chairman." Der Stuermer, CUs of antisemitic drawings. Reading "Mein Kampf." Newspaper clippings re: zoning code for Bund Camp (September 1937). Christmas ornaments of a Jew hanging. More US newspaper clippings, CUs headlines, antisemitic caricatures. 563 EE (02:09:08): Maps of Africa, US, Germany, and Western Europe.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000855
• English
• 1938
• Updated 1 year ago

665 NN (02:10:57) Various shots in the State Department library. Man with books. CUs document, treaties signed by officials. People in library, CUs books. Pan right to card catalog. Sign, "Library - US Department of State - For the use of the Department - Not open to the Public." CUs treaty. 665 OO (02:14:48) Men typing at desks, telegrams with Secretary of State emblem. Office in Paris? Sign, "Passports Applications and Information. Renewal and Amendments." Passport office. CUs woman filling out paperwork, passport application. Sign, "Division of Communications and Records." INT, office, m...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000856
• English
• 1938
• Updated 1 year ago

665 PP (02:20:15) Sign, "Diplomatic Pouch and Mail Section." Man carrying bundle to mail section. Sorting packages and mail. CU, Buenos Aires, Rome, Berlin, and Shanghai bins. CUs mail. Woman at gate. Sign, "Positively No Admittance." Men gather at desk, looking at map. Interamerican Highway highlighted on map. "Division of Near Eastern Affairs" sign. Man pointing at map. CUs, map, Ethiopia. 665 QQ (02:27:02) "Division of Far Eastern Affairs." Men at desk, in office, talking. CU, draft telegram for Shanghai. Men in office. Department of State Division of European Affairs notebook. Telegraph...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000857
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

563 E: In office of German American Bund - staff at desk, going through papers. CUs, Fritz Kuhn. Sign, "Reichsgruendungs Feier." Staff prepares recruitment mailing. Folding pamphlets which read, "Purpose and Aims of German American Bund." "JOIN" letters. CU, poster for Bund event at Yorkville Casino on January 16, 1938. Men reading newspapers in office. VAR takes, man walks into office, communicates with secretary and uniformed German American Bund, heiling. 03:05:11 563 F: In office of German American Bund, file cabinets, staff, mailing, answering telephone, typing. MSs German newspapers a...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000858
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

563 J: (shot in the studio) January 12, 1938. INT, two Nazi censors at work going through outgoing mail. CU, letter being opened. CU, letter placed back in envelope. 563 K: New York City, January 8, 1938. LS, Nazi propaganda workshop with artist making posters. CU, German drawing on bench of one of the artists. CU, finished poster held by Nazi officer. CU, poster only. MS, artist working, wall filled with German posters. MS, posters on wall. CU, folders inserted in envelopes by Nazi soldier. 03:13:00 563 L: New York City, December 24, 1937. EXT, main entrance to the Grand Central Palace. MS...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000859
• English
• 1946
• Updated 1 year ago

(Czech Newsreel Material) Railway station sign: Petrovice. MS of locomotive passing camera. CU of Marshall Tito of Yugoslavia seated in train, talking with his under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Clementis. Other men talking in group. LS of crowd in Czech station. LS of Tito in window of train acknowledging throng's greeting. Train moving off. Crowd waving. Tito at window. Train into station in Prague. Tito off train's steps, greeted by Prime Minister Fierlinger and others. Shots of crowd at station waving to Tito. Car driving off from station. Huge poster on building with Tito's ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000860
• English
• 1946
• Updated 1 year ago

1150 P: Prague, Czechoslovakia. LS American Ambassador Laurence Steinhardt driving his car up to the Czech Palace entrance. LS Steinhardt and secretary, William Kugeman, walking in the lobby of the Palace going to Minister's office. LS Steinhardt and Kugeman walking in lobby of Czernin Palace. LS Mr. Jean Masaryck, Foreign Minister, who was reading Czech papers, stands up, goes to door, and welcomes Mr. Steinhardt. MS Steinhardt and Masaryck in office discussing the results of the elections. CU Steinhardt speaking and smoking. CU Masaryck listening, talking, and smoking. Shots of both men t...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000861
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

First Meeting of the Constituent Assembly Elected on May 26, 1946. LS exterior of Parliament. LS entrance of Parliament. In FG the Russian Pennon on the Ambassador's car. LS the facade of Parliament. LS one of the lobbies of Parliament. Shots of the civil servants placing sheet of paper and pencils on the places of the members of the Government. Shot of the coat-of-arms of Czechoslovakia above the seat of the president of the Chamber of Deputies. LS Deputies entering and taking their seats. MSs British and Russian Ambassadors speaking and shaking hands before the sitting of the Constituent ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000862
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

July 13, 1938. Silent: US Embassy. EXT of embassy. Shot of flag being hoisted at embassy (taken from Place de la Concorde). CU street sign "Rue Boissy D'Anglas". CU street sign "Avenue Gabriel" on other corner. Main entrance to embassy at 2 Avenue Gabriel. Cars driving in and out. Leblay camera: US embassy, EXT. Dr. Serge Voronoff and wife enter embassy. Voronoff's chauffeur and Pekinese dog. Ambassador Bullitt arriving in car, shaking hands with Walter Lippmann who remains in car. CU Ambassador's car's license plate CD - 5F. Wall camera, Mag. 8: US Embassy, INT, Main entrance hall. Shot, t...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000863
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

Using Wall Camera: US Embassy, Post Office. Mail bags arriving from French post office. Mail being sorted. Clerk from Military Attache's office comes to collect mail. Asst. mail clerk J. Dawson Kiernan opens diplomatic pouch. Mail bags to be shipped to Moscow and Madrid. CU, Chief mail clerk E.L. Knack taking mail from diplomatic pouch and sorting. CU, EXT post office doors with sign, "Pouch Room - No Admittance" and "Mail Room - Bureau de Postes" Archive Vaults in basement of Embassy, Asst. Superintendent Anderson comes down corridor testing doors. CU Anderson opening and closing vault doo...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000864
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

665 P: Using Camereclaire: US Embassy, Ambassador's Office. (Sequence depicting daily morning routine.) Ambassador William C. Bullitt enters office, sits at desk, rings for personal secretary Carmel Offie, lights Camel cigarette. Offie enters with cables and mail, converses with Ambassador. Ambassador reads mail. CU Ambassador at desk, talking on phone with Minister of Finance Marchandeau, reading Embassy document addressed to French Foreign Office, signing document, standing at bay window overlooking Place de la Concorde, talking with First Secretary and Acting Consul General Robert D. Mur...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000865
• English
• 1938
• Updated 1 year ago

665 NN Various shots in the State Department library. Man with books. CUs document, treaties signed by officials. People in library, CUs books. Pan right to card catalog. Sign, "Library - US Department of State - For the use of the Department - Not open to the Public." CUs treaty. 665 OO Men typing at desks, telegrams with Secretary of State emblem. Office in Paris? Sign, "Passports Applications and Information. Renewal and Amendments." Passport office. CUs woman filling out paperwork, passport application. Sign, "Division of Communications and Records." INT, office, man at desk. Typing. Mo...