us-005578-irn614181-irn693001
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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 depicts a woman with dark, curly hair wearing light-colored trousers and a dark jacket. She is standing with one foot on top of a sand dune while looking off into the distance. She is resting a rifle on her thigh, and wearing a bandolier full of cartridges over one shoulder. In the background is a sky full of wispy clouds. A white number is printed in the bottom left corner of the image, and copyright information is printed in black in the bottom margin. On the back, there is a number handwritten in pencil in the top right corner, and a caption handwritten near the bottom. The corners of the photograph are lightly stained. Depicted: Märta Torén as Sabra .2 Black-and-white photographic scene still with a white margin on all four sides. The photograph depicts a woman with dark, curly hair wearing a dark jacket with a bandolier full of cartridges over one shoulder. She is leaning over the top of a sand dune, in three-quarter left profile, looking off into the distance. She is holding a rifle in her hands, resting one arm on top of the dune. In the background is a sky full of wispy clouds. A white number is printed in the bottom right corner of the image, and copyright information and a circular company logo is printed in black in the bottom margin. On the back, there is an indiscernible handwritten ink marking in the top right corner, and a caption handwritten in the center. Depicted: Märta Torén as Sabra .3a Black-and-white photographic scene still with a white margin on all four sides. The photograph depicts three men and a woman on top of a sand dune, with a sky of wispy clouds in the background. On the left, a man is laying on his stomach, propped up on his forearms, and pointing a pistol into the distance. Next to him, another man is standing hunched over, and holding up a pistol. The third man is kneeling on the sand, slightly in front of the others, and aiming a sub…
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date: 1949 August 24
has or had holder: us-005578
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has or had some members with language: eng
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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: irn693001
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record resource extent: .1: Height: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) | Width: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) .2: Height: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) | Width: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) .3: Height: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) | Width: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) .4: Height: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) | Width: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) .5: Height: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) | Width: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) .6: Height: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) | Width: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) .7: Height: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) | Width: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) .8: Height: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) | Width: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) .9: Height: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) | Width: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) .10: Height: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) | Width: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) .11: Height: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) | Width: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) .12: Height: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) | Width: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm)
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scope and content: Set of twelve scene stills for the film, “Sword in the Desert,” released in the United States in August 1949. Scene stills are photographs taken on or off the set of a motion picture and are then used as marketing and advertising tools. The film follows an American cargo ship captain who finds himself stranded in a Jewish settlement after smuggling a group of illegal Jewish immigrants to British-controlled Palestine. Initially self-interested and unsympathetic to the refugees, the captain has a change in heart after he is captured, imprisoned, and later escapes with them. “Sword in the Desert” was the first film made in Hollywood that depicted the Jewish struggle to establish the state of Israel in May 1948. Britain was given control of Palestine following World War I, and severely restricted the immigration of Jewish refugees who wanted to establish a new Jewish State. This led many refugees to enter the country via “illegal” or “clandestine” immigration on ships. The mass immigration of refugees also led to bitter clashes between the Arab locals and the Jewish paramilitary organization, the Haganah. The film received some criticism for portraying the British as villains, and not showing any of the conflict with the Arab population. In England, the film was perceived as anti-British and sparked outrage and several violent incidents. “Sword in the Desert” also established a new archetype of a rough-and-tumble female character that can hold her own with the Haganah fighters. 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 twelve scene stills for the film “Sword in the Desert” (1949)