Set of three scene stills for the British film, “Mr. Emmanuel,” released in the United Kingdom in October 1944, and in the United States in January 1945. Scene stills are photographs taken on or off the set of a motion picture and are then used as marketing and advertising tools. “Mr. Emmanuel” was based on a 1939 novel of the same name, written by Louis Golding. The film centers on a Jewish man who had become a naturalized British citizen and travels to prewar Nazi Germany to search for the mother of an orphaned boy. While there, he winds up in a concentration camp. He is eventually released with the help of the daughter of an old friend, who is the mistress of an ambitious Nazi officer. Shortly after the film premiered in the United States, the Soviet army liberated the Auschwitz camp complex on January 27, 1945. Although “Mr. Emmanuel” depicts the title character in a camp, it paled in comparison to the horrific conditions and experiences of actual victims shown in the news and video footage. This object is one of more than 1,200 objects in the Cinema Judaica Collection of materials related to films about World War II and the Holocaust as well as Jewish, Israeli, and biblical themes.
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The scene stills were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2018 by Ken Sutak and Sherri Venokur.
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.1 Black-and-white, photographic scene still from the movie, “Mr. Emmanuel,” printed on white photographic paper with a border around all four sides. The photograph depicts a scene inside a home, with flowered wallpaper and heavy drapes. An older man is standing in front of a table, with his hands on a large metal coffee urn with a tap on the front. Surrounding the urn on the table are miscellaneous dishes, utensils, and papers. There is a white number in the lower right corner, and in the lower margin are the film credits, copyright information, and printing information. The paper is slightly discolored, and the upper right corner is deeply creased. Depicted: Felix Aylmer as Isaac Emmanuel .2 Sepia-toned, photographic scene still from the movie, “Mr. Emmanuel,” printed on white photographic paper with a border around all four sides. The photograph depicts an older man from mid-thigh, standing in right profile. He is standing in a room with painted brick walls, looking towards a window, the barred shadow of which appears on the wall in the background. He is wearing a black suit and white shirt that is open at the collar. The man’s left hand is holding the collar of his shirt, and he wears a distressed expression on his face. There is a white number in the lower right corner, and in the lower margin are the film credits, copyright information, and printing information. On the back, there are two hand stamps in black ink: a number in the center, and the actor’s name at the bottom. There are many small linear small cracks throughout the surface of the image. Depicted: Felix Aylmer as Isaac Emmanuel .3 Black-and-white, photographic scene still from the movie, “Mr. Emmanuel,” printed on white photographic paper with a border around all four sides. The photograph depicts an older man from mid-thigh, standing in right profile. He is standing in a room with painted brick walls, looking towards a window, the barred shadow of which appears on the wall in the background. He is wearing a black suit and a white shirt that is open at the collar. The man’s left hand is holding the collar of his shirt, and a distressed expression on his face. There is a white number in the lower right corner, and in the lower margin are the film credits, copyright information, and printing information. On the back, the actor’s name is handwritten in pencil. The paper is slightly discolored. Depicted: Felix Aylmer as Isaac Emmanuel .2 back, center, stamped, black ink : 6095 .2 back, bottom center, stamped, black ink : FELIX AYLMER .3 back, top left corner, handwritten, pencil : AYLMER, FELIX
Set of three scene stills for the British film, “Mr. Emmanuel” (1944)
The Cinema Judaica Collection consists of more than 1,200 objects relating to films about World War II and the Holocaust as well as Jewish, Israeli, and biblical subjects, from 1923 to 2000, from the United States, Europe, Israel, Canada, Mexico, and Argentina. The collection was amassed by film memorabilia collector Ken Sutak, to document Holocaust-and Jewish-themed movies of the World War II era and the postwar years. The collection includes posters, lobby and photo cards, scene stills, pressbooks, trade ads, programs, magazines, books, VHS tapes, DVDS, and 78 rpm records. Sutak organized these materials into two groups, “Cinema Judaica: The War Years, 1939–1949” and “Cinema Judaica: The Epic Cycle, 1950–1972” and, in conjunction with the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion Museum (now the Dr. Bernard Heller Museum in New York), organized exhibitions on these two themes in 2007 and 2008. Sutak subsequently authored companion books with the same titles.
.1: Height: 10.125 inches (25.718 cm) | Width: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) .2: Height: 10.125 inches (25.718 cm) | Width: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) .3: Height: 10.125 inches (25.718 cm) | Width: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm)