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The Hess Family in Germany and on vacation

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 2004.461 | RG Number: RG-60.3927 | Film ID: 2724

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    The Hess Family in Germany and on vacation

    Overview

    Description
    IM INNERSTEN WESTFALEN. Boy in suit, VAR shots. Dog, couple playing with dog in winter. Aerial shots. FREUNDE UND BEKANNT. Young couple. CU, man writing at desk. MERAN BEISCHLECHTEM WETTEN... Trees waving in the wind. ... UND BEI GUTEN. Aerial shots, landscape, women smelling blossoms on a tree, CUs blossoms. AM MONT BLAN. Snow capped mountains, people hiking/trekking. AUF DEM GENFER SEE. Homes on waterfront, views from a boat on the sea, men playing violins. GANZ KLEIN SIEHT DER SALEV VON GENF HER AUS! Pan riverside. UEBERHOLTES AUS AROSA. In small village, pedestrians, women, cats on chair. VOR DEM ON MARCH. Well-dressed pedestrians walking on a city street, shops, shop windows. ESCARGOTS. Snails at market. Man going down ladder, lab and machine, goat and two men in field with church in BG. Women in city square with pigeons. DIE BEVOELKERUNG DORT SPRICHT AUFF ENDER WEISE...SOERBSISCH! Man standing outside building in city. ALLES LEBT AUF DEN STRASSE. CU, child in street. STAEDTE UND LAENDER. City buildings in Prague, people at market, tram, church. AMUSEMENTS IN BRUESSEL. Amusement park. IM BOIS. DIE PROVINZLER-SIND ANGEKOMMEN. Group of people sitting in a circle in a park, celebrating a birthday. 06:13 CUs, AGH (Albert Günther Hess), the filmmaker. CUs, a woman. ANDERE WIEDER SITZEN AUF SEHR HOHEM ROSSE. Man on horse in a park. IM SCHWIMMBAD. MSs, woman doing somersault, crowd at beach, swimming, dog in water. Group of boys, shot from below. AKT=SCHLUSS Ende.
    Duration
    00:07:44
    Date
    Event:  1930s
    Locale
    Prague, Czechoslovakia
    Germany
    Brussels, Belgium
    Arosa, Switzerland
    Credit
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, gift of Marie Hammerling
    Contributor
    Camera Operator: Albert G. Hess
    Biography
    The Hess family was a prominent, assimilated Jewish family in Pirna, Germany. They owned a large chemical and lacquer manufacturing plant. Gustav and Hermine Hess had three children - Ilse, Manfred, and Albert. All were married in Germany and managed to escape the war. Ilse and her family moved to NY (she married Alfred Rosenstern and the name was later changed to Roston). Manfred, his wife Gertrud "Trude", and their daughters Ursula and Luise left Germany for England in 1939. Albert Günther Hess (AGH) and his family went to Belgium and later to the US.

    AGH was born on March 1, 1909. He studied music and law; still and motion picture photography was his lifelong hobby. In the 1930s, he made travel and family films on 9.5 mm. He was drafted by the US Army shortly after arriving in the US in the early 1940s. He was in a military intelligence unit, interrogated and translated for Nazi prisoners, interviewed Hermann Goering, and helped liberate Dachau (His photographs are available in the USHMM Photo Archives). In the 1950s, he returned to filming his family and documenting his travels. AGH married three times, first to Ilse Sobel (who appears in many of his early films and who - later in the US - went by the name Peggy Kaufman), next to Gisela Oppens (a refugee and the mother of the donor), and finally to Julia Kao. AGH was also a criminology professor, an airplane pilot, a boater, and a language enthusiast.

    Physical Details

    Language
    Silent
    Genre/Form
    Amateur.
    B&W / Color
    Black & White
    Image Quality
    Poor
    Time Code
    01:00:08:00 to 01:07:52:00
    Film Format
    • Master
    • Master 2724 Film: positive - 8 mm - b&w - reversal original
      Master 2724 Film: positive - 9.5 mm - original
      Master 2724 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
      Master 2724 Film: positive - 8 mm - b&w - reversal original
      Master 2724 Film: positive - 9.5 mm - original
      Master 2724 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
      Master 2724 Film: positive - 8 mm - b&w - reversal original
      Master 2724 Film: positive - 9.5 mm - original
      Master 2724 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
      Master 2724 Film: positive - 8 mm - b&w - reversal original
      Master 2724 Film: positive - 9.5 mm - original
      Master 2724 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
    • Preservation
    • Preservation 2724 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Preservation 2724 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Preservation 2724 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Preservation 2724 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    You do not require further permission from the Museum to access this archival media.
    Copyright
    Marie Brandes Hammerling
    Conditions on Use
    The Museum does not own the copyright for this material and does not have authority to authorize third party use. For permission, please contact the rights holder, Mrs. Marie Hammerling.

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    Administrative Notes

    Film Provenance
    Marie Hess Brandes donated her father's film to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in May 2004. This film was originally shot in 9.5mm. The donor created an 8mm reduction in the 1950s. Colorlab created a video transfer from the 8mm in 2004.
    Film Source
    Marie Brandes Hammerling
    File Number
    Legacy Database File: 4324
    Record last modified:
    2024-02-21 08:01:37
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