March of Time -- outtakes -- The New School, NYC (University in Exile)
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12/14/1938
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March of Time -- outtakes -- The New School, NYC (University in Exile)
New School for Social Research, NYC. 03:11:34 CU of sign, EXT:"The New Schoo". 03:12:51 INT, people walking through lobby, information board. 03:13:43 CU, individual names and their subjects. View of faculty members meeting around table in front of mural, with the president of the New School, Alvin Johnson. There are various European exiles, including Leo Strauss, Frieda Wunderlich, Emil Lederer, and Max Wertheimer. (Full list of names is available in March of Time research files). 03:14:07 View of adult students in class. 03:16:52 People at a meeting.
Cameraman's dope sheets available in departmental files.
Emil Lederer (1882-1939), economist, social democrat active in Austria and Germany. He helped the flow of intellectual refugees out of Germany to the US, and became a dean of the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research until his death.
Leo Strauss (1899-1973), German-born Jewish political philosopher, emigrated to the US in 1937.
Max Wertheimer (1880-1943), one of the founders of gestalt psychology, born in Prague, taught in Germany, escaped in 1933 to the US.