us-005578-irn1000243
type: RecordSet
date: 1946 October 03, 1946 (used 10/46)
has or had holder: us-005578
has or had identifier: 1
has or had identifier: 2
has or had some members with language: Silent
has record set type: Item
identifier: irn1000243
note: Cameraman's dope sheet available in departmental files. See Story 990, Film ID 919 for duplicate footage.
scope and content: 1150 Y (11:21:41): Prague, Czechoslovakia, October 3, 1946 (?). INTs, Jews worshipping in the Synagogue of Prague. MS, the rabbi opens the ark and takes out the Torah which is shown to the worshippers. LS, same as MS above. MS, Jews worshipping the Torah. The rabbi enters the center of the synagogue where the Torah is placed on a table. He opens it. MS, the rabbi opening the Torah for the ceremony. CU, the rabbi opening the Torah and demonstrating it, wide open, to the worshippers. LS, Jews leaving the synagogue after the ceremony. NOTE: The American Jews gave a Torah to the Czech Jews in Prague. This Torah is shown here during a ceremony celebrated in the oldest synagogue in Prague. 1150 Z (11:24:13): ANNUAL PILGRIMAGE AT VELEHRAD (prohibited during the German occupation). Shows the magnificence and variety of Czecholsovak costumes. Peasants in full dress leave a church. LS in an old street peasants in rich costumes walking in procession, singing and dancing. Several shots of peasants (boys, girls, children, women, and men). Walking in a procession in another part of the village. Same peasants on the stage among a huge crowd. Several shots of the show. Cameraman's dope sheet indicates that"All peasants came from each corner of Czechoslovakia"
title: March of Time -- outtakes -- Synagogue in Czechoslovakia; peasants