9.5mm film ‘Pathé Baby’ centenary 1922-2022: Happy Birthday Baby!
September Archive Streaming Programme: The Banality of Evil, selected by Anna Briggs
All the films featured in this month’s selection are from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum / Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive collection. They document the years leading up to, during and after World War II. Several of these films are featured in the Ephemeral Films Project: National Socialism in Austria (https://efilms.at//), where you can ‘watch the historic film through an innovative film player showing contemporary images, geographical mapping, and shot-level analysis.’
I recommend reading the ‘Description’, ‘About’ and ‘Administrative History’ notes for all films, as they shed light on familial relations between filmmakers, geographical and chronological links, as well as giving a broader historical context to these personal films.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum / Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive, filmmaker unknown, Fuchs family at the beach – home movies, 1933?
https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn1003333
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum / Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive, Johannes Vosskamp & Fritz Jasper, Journey into Blue, 1933
https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn1004459
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum / Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive, Johannes Vosskamp, Duisburg Nazi Party members go to Nuremberg for Reichs Party Day, 1935
https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn1004411
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum / Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive, Friedrich Apfelthaler, 1938. Hitler in Vienna, Herbert in Winter
https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn724926
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum / Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive, filmmaker unknown, City Hall, May 1, 1938
https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn724931
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum / Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive, Max Bandera?, National Socialist Motor Transport Corps [Part 1 of 3], 1938
https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn724922
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum / Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive, filmmaker unknown, Partisan shootings, Russia, 1941-1942
* warning – this film contains footage of atrocities *
https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn724932
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum / Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive, Friedrich Apfelthaler, Springtime in Vienna, 1942
https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn724929
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum / Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive, filmmaker unknown, A Film from Contemporary Life. Pictures from Russia, Summer 1942. The “Paradise”
https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn1004565
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum / Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive, Hans Wolfgang Lindemann, 35. Lukow – Bobruisk – Smolensk 1942
https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn560128
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum / Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive, Herbert Apfelthaler, RAD “Soldiers of Work”, 1943
https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn718542
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum / Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive, Moshe Shapiro, Untitled [Jewish family at DP camp in Italy], 1946-1947
https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn539095
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum / Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive, Moshe Shapiro, Untitled [Santa Maria di Leuca DP camp; Jewish family; protesting British policy against immigration], 1946-1947