us-005578-irn614181-irn692986
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physical characterisitics and technical requirements: .1 Black-and-white photographic scene still with a white margin on all four sides. The photograph is taken from a low-angle and depicts a man in a dark coat and hood. He is standing in a wood building with open rafters and bunks partially visible on the right side. Behind him, a person is sitting on a set of steep stairs, curled over, with their eyes closed. Several other people are also partially visible in the background. The film title and credits are printed in black in the bottom margin. The top corners are torn and there are numerous pinholes throughout the margins. On the back, there are two sideways, black ink stamps in the center. Depicted: Unidentified .2 Black-and-white photographic scene still with a white margin on all four sides. The photograph depicts a perspective shot inside a long, wooden structure with low rafters. At the far end of the room stands a woman in a white coat with a Star of David badge on the breast. Numerous people wrapped in white, gray, and striped lengths of lightweight cloth are sitting and laying on the floor, filling most of the available space. The film title and credits are printed in black in the bottom margin. There are several pinholes in each corner and a horizontal crease along the bottom margin. On the back, there are two black ink stamps in the center. Depicted: Blanka Waleská as Dr. Hana Kaufmanová, others unidentified .3 Black-and-white photographic scene still with a white margin on all four sides. The photograph depicts a dark scene inside a building with cement walls and metal stairs. A woman with short, dark hair is sitting on the stairs, looking at a man who is standing at the foot. Projected on the wall behind them are large shadows of two people wearing brimmed hats. In the top left corner of the image is another person obscured by shadows and descending the stairs. In the bottom right corner, children are huddled together in a group. The film title and credits are printed in black in the bottom margin. There …
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date: 1949 March
has or had holder: us-005578
has or had identifier: 4
has or had identifier: 3
has or had identifier: 2
has or had identifier: 1
has or had some members with language: ces
has or had some members with language: fra
has record set type: Item
history: The scene stills were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2018 by Ken Sutak and Sherri Venokur.
history: 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.
identifier: irn692986
is or was included in: us-005578-irn614181
record resource extent: .1: Height: 12.000 inches (30.48 cm) | Width: 9.500 inches (24.13 cm) .2: Height: 12.000 inches (30.48 cm) | Width: 9.500 inches (24.13 cm) .3: Height: 9.500 inches (24.13 cm) | Width: 12.000 inches (30.48 cm) .4: Height: 9.500 inches (24.13 cm) | Width: 12.000 inches (30.48 cm) .5: Height: 9.500 inches (24.13 cm) | Width: 12.000 inches (30.48 cm) .6: Height: 9.500 inches (24.13 cm) | Width: 12.000 inches (30.48 cm) .7: Height: 9.500 inches (24.13 cm) | Width: 12.000 inches (30.48 cm)
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scope and content: Set of seven scene stills for the Czechoslovakian film, “Daleká cesta” (“Distant Journey”), released in Czechoslovakia in 1949. Scene stills are photographs taken on or off the set of a motion picture and are then used as marketing and advertising tools. “Daleká cesta” follows a Jewish doctor in Prague who marries a Christian colleague, but is forced to quit her hospital job after the Germans invade the region. Her parents are forced to relocate to Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in German-occupied Czechoslovakia. Eventually, she and her husband are sent to separate camps, and she begins working as a camp doctor in Theresienstadt. The film incorporates German propaganda and documentary newsreel footage that marks the passage of time throughout the narrative. The film received approval from the Film Censorship Bureau and premiered in communist Czechoslovakia in March 1949, but the Minister of Information severely restricted publicity and distribution for it, due largely to the director’s style of aggressive expressionism. Alfred Radok, the director, was half-Jewish, and escaped from a detention camp near the end of the war, and his father and grandfather both died in Theresienstadt. 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.
title: Set of seven scene stills for the film “Daleká cesta” (1949)