Berestowitz, Poland: street scenes; people

Identifier
irn1002025
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1992.260.1
  • RG-60.0701
Dates
1 Jan 1920 - 31 Dec 1920
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Silent
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

Scope and Content

Intertitles appear in Yiddish and English. Scenes of small town with horse-drawn carts, people, houses, and dirt roads. "A Glimpse Around the Market" Similar scenes of town with peasants, horses, wagons, houses. "Peasant Youths out for a lark in the big city..." Five boys walk down dirt road, houses line the street. "When the pretty girls go walking, the boys go walking too." Pan of street with people and houses. "Shawls" "The Synagogue Center" VAR views of synagogue building. Men talk in the street, gesture at camera. MCU, woman in front of a house. MCU, family with children at sign reading ZYDOWSKA BIBLIOTEKA, I.L. PERECA. VAR shots of townspeople. "It's odd but they're really getting along...feminine friend" Elderly women chat. Family. "Photographed near his house" MCU, elderly man (rabbi?), shot from below. Young attractive woman lights a cigarette, townspeople glare at her. VAR shots of people, some posing in front of houses or stores.

Note(s)

  • See partial duplicate footage in Story 2571, Film ID 2334 with the same TC. JEA order #1666-W

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Genre

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