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Five Cities

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 1992.266.1 | RG Number: RG-60.2478 | Film ID: 238

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    Five Cities
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    Description
    Yiddish titles. English title: "Jewish Life in Lwow." Pan, overview Lwow city nestled in a valley. Large buildings, city square, monuments, trams, busy street traffic, pedestrians, promenade, important buildings, marketplace. Stylish men and women promenade through modern Lwow, also known as Lemberg. MSs, shopping for wares and sellers at marketplace. Parks and pavilions, public spaces, busy streets, people. 04:05:58 Scenes in the old and well-established Jewish community, following groups of well-dressed and Orthodox Jews, street scenes, daily activities, and showing the landmarks: Yad Haruzim Trade Union Building, Old Ghetto, softly curving exterior of the Modern Temple, the orthodox school, Moorish-looking Lazarus Hospital, grave of the "Golden Rose" and the Nowosci Theater. Large, thriving marketplace. Crowds watching a street performer. VAR shots of marketeers. Pan of city. "The End"
    Film Title
    Jewish Life in Lwow
    Duration
    00:10:16
    Date
    Event:  1939
    Production:  1939
    Locale
    Lviv (Lvov), Poland
    Ukraine
    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
    Narrator: Asher Lerner
    Producer: Shaul Goskind
    Text Contributor: Asher Lerner
    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
    04:01:15:00 to 04:11:31:00
    Film Format
    • Master
    • Master 238 Video: One Inch - 1 inch - NTSC
      Master 238 Film: positive - 16 mm - b&w - print
      Master 238 Video: One Inch - 1 inch - NTSC
      Master 238 Film: positive - 16 mm - b&w - print
      Master 238 Video: One Inch - 1 inch - NTSC
      Master 238 Film: positive - 16 mm - b&w - print
      Master 238 Video: One Inch - 1 inch - NTSC
      Master 238 Film: positive - 16 mm - b&w - print
    • Preservation
    • Preservation 238 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Preservation 238 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Preservation 238 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Preservation 238 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. Both the Spielberg Jewish Film Archive (Jerusalem) and the National Center for Jewish Film (Massachusetts) claim copyright to this 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.
    Note
    John E. Allen, Inc. (an archive now located at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC) holds the only 35mm nitrate copy of this footage, which likely entered John E. Allen, Inc. before the Goskins gave rights to Spielberg Jewish Film Archive.
    Film Source
    Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive
    File Number
    Legacy Database File: 2255
    Record last modified:
    2024-02-21 08:00:29
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