“Kurhaus Nikolaiken” sign along the water in East Prussia. Film is heavily scratched. Traveling in a boat, woman standing on bridge. 01:10:06 The Tannenberg Memorial in Hohenstein where Hindenburg was buried in 1934. Various shots of the complex with two large statues of soldiers, wreaths. Tourists wander around. Brief shot of HJ boys exiting doorway […]
Margaret Siegal Weiss (the donor, age 12) and her father Morris (42) spent six weeks visiting family in Zborow from July to August 1936.;01:25 Arrival in Zborow during the summer of 1936. Margaret (the donor) stands next to her Aunt Minke Pasternak. Mountains (from plane window?). Village, main square and street on market day. MS, […]
Title: “Der 8. Regimentstag des Bundes ehem. 172er am 28-30 Juli 1934 in Dcsseldorf”. Second title frame reads: “Film Aufnahmen von Hans Vosskamp Fritz Jasper”. Animated cards and titles throughout. Two men holding a sign before a newspaper kiosk on a city street. Former soldiers of the 172nd Regiment from World War I gather in […]
EXT, VS of unidentified town in France, in the vicinity of Verdun, France. Horses and carts pass by, townspeople move about the streets. Three Americans (David Glick, his wife, and an unidentified woman) standing in front of a monument and memorial to the fallen in World War I. The monument is in a town square, […]
This home movie from the Orris Brown Collection captures scenes of the Texas Centennial Exposition at the Texas State Fair Grounds in Dallas in 1936. It was the first world’s fair south of the Mason-Dixon Line. At a cost of $25,000,000, the central exposition was built, occupying fifty buildings, including The Hall of Negro Life, […]
This home movie captures scenes of Plano’s Yousefi family vacationing to Washington DC and visiting the National Mall in 1980. There they see the Jefferson Memorial, Lincoln Memorial, Washington Monument, White House, Reflection Pool, and the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum.
This home movie captures scenes of Dealey Plaza in the days after President Kennedy
This home movie captures scenes of Dealey Plaza after President Kennedy
This home movie captures scenes of a football game and of Dealey Plaza in Dallas the day after President John F. Kennedy’s assassination in 1963. In Dealey Plaza, the Strawn family documents the Texas School Book Depository building and the 6th floor window, as well as images of mourners leaving flowers and large floral arrangements […]