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Kan family postwar in US: Robert's child

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 2002.183.1 | RG Number: RG-60.4435 | Film ID: 2478

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    Kan family postwar in US: Robert's child

    Overview

    Description
    Color. Robert gets into a car, out of the car, and walks to the house. Robert walks out of a house with a boy. They walk down the sidewalk and wave. LS, mother in the doorway of the house. She then walks toward the camera. The boy gets into a car and sits in the driver's seat. 01:07:06 City skyline. Boy plays with children on a sidewalk, children line up for the camera. 01:07:56 Robert holds the hand of a younger child in a blue snowsuit who looks and waves at the camera. Robert and his wife, seen earlier, walk down the sidewalk with the children.
    Duration
    00:02:38
    Date
    Event:  1949-1954?
    Locale
    New York, NY, United States
    Credit
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, gift of Robert F. Kan and Betsy Klein
    Contributor
    Subject: Robert F. Kan
    Biography
    Born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Robert Kan and his family escaped the Nazis on May 13, 1940 and emigrated to Queens, New York via the Dutch East Indies. He received a BA in Economics from Hofstra Univeristy and worked for thirty years for the US government at the Department of Commerce, the Atomic Energy Commission, the National Science Foundation, and the American Embassy in Tokyo. After retiring from the government, he became a Certified Financial Planner. He was a lifelong Boy Scout and accomplished philatelist. He was married for 58 years to Francisca Verdoner Kan and had three daughters, Jeanette, Susan, and Eleanor.

    Physical Details

    Language
    Silent
    Genre/Form
    Amateur.
    B&W / Color
    Color
    Image Quality
    Good
    Time Code
    01:05:32:00 to 01:08:10:00
    Film Format
    • Master
    • Master 2478 Film: positive - 16 mm - b&w and color - reversal original
      Master 2478 Video: Betacam SP - color - PAL - small
      Master 2478 Film: positive - 16 mm - b&w and color - reversal original
      Master 2478 Video: Betacam SP - color - PAL - small
      Master 2478 Film: positive - 16 mm - b&w and color - reversal original
      Master 2478 Video: Betacam SP - color - PAL - small
      Master 2478 Film: positive - 16 mm - b&w and color - reversal original
      Master 2478 Video: Betacam SP - color - PAL - small
    • Preservation
    • Preservation 2478 Film: negative - 16 mm - polyester - b&w and color - internegative - A-wind
      Preservation 2478 Video: Betacam SP - color - NTSC - small
      Preservation 2478 Film: negative - 16 mm - polyester - b&w and color - internegative - A-wind
      Preservation 2478 Video: Betacam SP - color - NTSC - small
      Preservation 2478 Film: negative - 16 mm - polyester - b&w and color - internegative - A-wind
      Preservation 2478 Video: Betacam SP - color - NTSC - small
      Preservation 2478 Film: negative - 16 mm - polyester - b&w and color - internegative - A-wind
      Preservation 2478 Video: Betacam SP - color - NTSC - small

    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.

    Keywords & Subjects

    Administrative Notes

    Film Provenance
    The Kan family collection of 16mm films was jointly donated by siblings Robert F. Kan and Betsy Klein to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in May 2002.
    Note
    Title handwritten on film label for all of Film ID 2478:
    "Graduation Betsy Robs
    Silver Point
    Donald-Kew Gardens 1949
    Kinderen Joe Colland Joplin Feb 1950
    Ellison 1954"
    Not sure which titles correspond to Stories 4434-4438. The donor has not identified people in footage.
    Film Source
    Robert F. Kan
    Ms. Betsy Klein
    File Number
    Legacy Database File: 4759
    Record last modified:
    2024-02-21 08:02:11
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