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Five Cities

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 1992.266.1 | RG Number: RG-60.2480 | Film ID: 240

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    Five Cities
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    Overview

    Description
    Yiddish titles. English title: "Jewish Life in Krakow" Pan of city of Krakow, buildings, tram, street scenes, statues, city square with pigeons. Streetcars share tree-lined streets with horse-drawn carriages. People conduct business under umbrella-covered markets and arcaded market halls. Jewish children, impoverished housing in Jewish quarter. Scenes of the famous Remu Synagogue and the Alte Shul, an orphanage, a hospital, and the Jewish Community Council. Street scenes with Jews showing the vitality of the community. Several schools. Parks and schoolyards host sports, games and animated discussions. Groups of people, children, elderly. Orthodox Jews (men) go to synagogue. "The End"
    Duration
    00:10:02
    Date
    Event:  1939
    Production:  1939
    Locale
    Krakow, Poland
    Credit
    Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of The Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archives of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    Contributor
    Producer: Yitzhak Goskind
    Camera Operator: V. Kazimierczak
    Text Contributor: Asher Lerner
    Narrator:
    Producer:
    Biography
    In 1938 and 1939, Shaul and Yitzhak Goskind of Warsaw-based Sektor Films produced six short films about urban Jewish communities in Poland. One, about Łódź, is lost. The other five-on Bialystok, Cracow, Lwow, Vilna, and Warsaw-have survived and are now called "Five Cities." These low-budget 35mm films were made for Landsmanshaften groups in America for fundraising purposes. On the eve of war, the Goskinds sent the films to Joseph Seiden, the prolific director in New York who distributed Yiddish newsreels and feature films in the US and Europe.

    Physical Details

    Language
    Yiddish
    Genre/Form
    Documentary.
    B&W / Color
    Black & White
    Image Quality
    Good
    Time Code
    05:01:06:00 to 05:11:08:00
    Film Format
    • Master
    • Master 240 Video: One Inch - 1 inch - NTSC
      Master 240 Film: positive - 16 mm - b&w - print
      Master 240 Video: One Inch - 1 inch - NTSC
      Master 240 Film: positive - 16 mm - b&w - print
      Master 240 Video: One Inch - 1 inch - NTSC
      Master 240 Film: positive - 16 mm - b&w - print
      Master 240 Video: One Inch - 1 inch - NTSC
      Master 240 Film: positive - 16 mm - b&w - print
    • Preservation
    • Preservation 240 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Preservation 240 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Preservation 240 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Preservation 240 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    This archival media can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations.
    Copyright
    Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive
    Conditions on Use
    Third parties should contact the Spielberg Jewish Film Archive at jfa@savion.huji.ac.il for permission to reproduce and use the footage.

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    Administrative Notes

    Film Provenance
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased "Five Cities" on film from the Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive via the United Studios of Israel in February 1992.
    Film Source
    Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive
    File Number
    Legacy Database File: 2257
    Record last modified:
    2024-02-21 08:03:56
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