Overview
- Description
- Aerial views of Germany and Belgium from USAF airplane. Snow-capped mountains. INT plane with male pilot (US soldier) chewing gum, controls. CU passenger (US soldier & presumably the cameraman). More aerial views, including Liege, Belgium, the city of Cologne, Rhine River, smokestacks, farmland, railroad tracks, the Cologne Cathedral, and castles along the Rhine. 01:07:48 Passenger deplanes and pilot waves to camera as he gets back into the plane. Airport (USAF base?), MSs large airplane. Brief shot of an interchange with two US soldiers, civilians in BG. Small airplane takes off.
- Film Title
-
Rhein River-Dachau -- amateur
- Duration
- 00:06:23
- Date
-
Event:
1947-1950?
- Locale
-
Germany
Cologne, Germany
Liege, Belgium
- Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, gift of Alexander Katlan
Physical Details
- Language
- Silent
- Genre/Form
- Amateur.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Mixed
- Time Code
- 01:02:12:00 to 01:08:35:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 2831 Film: positive - 8 mm - b&w - reversal original
Master 2831 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
Master 2831 Film: positive - 8 mm - b&w - reversal original
Master 2831 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
Master 2831 Film: positive - 8 mm - b&w - reversal original
Master 2831 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
Master 2831 Film: positive - 8 mm - b&w - reversal original
Master 2831 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small- Preservation
Preservation 2831 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 2831 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 2831 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 2831 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
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- Copyright
- Public Domain
- Conditions on Use
- To the best of the Museum's knowledge, this material is in the public domain. You do not require further permission from the Museum to reproduce or use this material.
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Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- Alexander Katlan donated this film to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in July 2006 in memory of his father Dr. Nathanial R. Katlan. Mr. Katlan purchased the film at an estate sale in New York, and the original creator is therefore unknown.
- Note
- Original label on can: "Rhein River-Dachau"
- Film Source
- Alexander Katlan
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 4905
- Special Collection
-
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:48:09
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