Appearance |
David Ben Gurion (Prime Minister, Israel);
Bechor Schalom Shitrit (Minister of Police, Israel);
David Remes (Minister of Transport, Israel);
Pinchas Rosen (Minister of Justice, Israel);
Perez Bernstein (Jewish Agency, Head of the Department of Trade and Industry);
Yehuda Leib Maimon (Minister of Religious Affairs, Israel);
Chaim Mosche Shapira (Jewish Agency, Director of the Immigration Department);
Moshe Sharett (Foreign Minister, Israel);
Paul Ivanovich Yershov (Ambassador, Sovjet Union);
Golda Meir (Minister of Labor, Israel);
James McDonald (Ambassador, USA);
Chaim Weizmann (President, Israel);
Yitzchak Gruenbaum (Minister of Interior, Israel);
Vera Weizmann (First Lady);
Yitzchak Meir Levin (Minister of Welfare, Israel);
Amin Tarif (Leader of the Druze cummunity);
David Arnon (Adjutant to the President);
Michael Simon (Chief of Protocol, Israel);
Berl Repetur (Histadrut leader);
Moshe Sneh (MP, Mapam);
Abraham Granovsky (KKL, Director);
Yisrael Rokach (MP, General Zionist Party, Mayor of Tel Aviv);
Pinchas Lavon (Histadrut, General Secretary);
Yosef Sprinzak (Speaker of the Knesset);
Aron Zisling (Minister of Agriculture, Israel);
Yaakov Maimon (?);
Amin Jarjura (?);
Trygve Lie (UN, General Secretary);
Abba Eban (Israel's Ambassador to UN) |
Bibliography |
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Contents (detailed) |
Shotlist (- ft):
Reel 1:
- 000 CREDITS
- 080 GVs: Israel countryside
- 140 GVs: Town built on a mountain
- 152 Man jumps into river
- 165 Street Scene in a city
- 185 British leaving
- 207 Union Jack lowered, Israeli flag raised
- 211 David Ben Gurion (Prime Minister, Israel) reading Declaration of Independence, Bechor Schalom Shitrit (Minister of Police, Israel), David Remes (Minister of Transport, Israel), Pinchas Rosen (Minister of Justice, Israel), Perez Bernstein (Jewish Agency, Head of the Department of Trade and Industry), Yehuda Leib Maimon (Minister of Religious Affairs, Israel), Chaim Mosche Shapira (Jewish Agency, Director of the Immigration Department), Moshe Sharett (Foreign Minister, Israel) are seen, intercut with crowds in streets, people standing by radio, listening, face of old woman, crowd listening, flags flying
- 392 Blessing by rabbis recited after declaration
- 410 Arab soldiers on horseback
- 420 Planes flying overhead, Tel Aviv
- 425 Air raid casualties
- 432 Arab troops getting into jeeps and tanks
- 448 Jerusalem
- 456 Air raids and explosions
- 494 Troops in combat and marching
- 526 IDF training
- 607 Digging trenches and putting up barbed wire
- 625 Soldiers with guns
- 650 Israelis occupying Jaffa
- 697 GVs: Acre
- 726 ENDS
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Reel 2:
- 000 Young people volunteering
- 033 CUs: New recruits
- 045 Soldiers on guard
- 075 Arab troops marching
- 085 Combat scenes
- 153 Arab legion in Old City-explosions
- 181 Burning buildings in Old City
- 210 Arab troops taking over Jewish Quarter
- 251 Jewish soldiers shooting from outside walls
- 318 GVs: Jerusalem streets
- 326 Trucks on Burma Road
- 385 Convoy arriving in Jerusalem
- 406 GV: Jerusalem
- 428 Men and women soldiers marching
- 483 Cavalry riding in desert
- 536 Aircraft flying and on ground
- 583 Planes taking off watched from the ground
- 656 Children presenting hospital plane
- 686 Navy on parade, reviewed by Ben Gurion
- 737 Troops in field and Israeli flag hoisted
- 845 Israelis entering Nazareth
- 872 ENDS
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Reel 3:
- 000 Paul Ivanovich Yershov (Ambassador, Sovjet Union) arriving and presenting credentials to Ben Gurion and Golda Meir (Minister of Labor, Israel)
- 053 James McDonald (Ambassador, US) greeted by Ben Gurion and Sharett
- 096 CU: Israeli coins minted
- 123 Chaim Weizmann taking oath as provisional president
- 162 Troops in action
- 216 Israelis in Beersheva
- 255 Troops in trenches and fighting in Negev
- 332 Egyptian POW's
- 350 Dead bodies
- 358 Wall posters: First elections, Weizmann, Ben Gurion, Yitzchak Gruenbaum (Minister of Interior, Israel) voting
- 411 Members entering first Knesset, Weizmann, Vera Weizmann (First Lady), first Knesset session, Ben Gurion, Shapira, Yitzchak Meir Levin (Minister of Welfare, Israel), Amin Tarif (Leader of the Druze cummunity), David Arnon (Adjutant to the President), Michael Simon (Chief of Protocol, Israel), Berl Repetur (Histadrut leader), Moshe Sneh (MP, Mapam), Avraham Granovsky (Granott) (JNF, Director), Yisrael Rokach (MP, General Zionist Party, Mayor of Tel Aviv), Pinchas Lavon (Histadrut, General Secretary), Yosef Sprinzak (Speaker of the Knesset), Gruenbaum, Aron Zisling (Minister of Agriculture, Israel), Remes, Yehuda Leib Maimon, Yaakov Maimon (?), Rosen, Amin Jarjura (?) are seen
- 455 Weizmann entering and being sworn in
- 460 Speeches in chamber, vote taken
- 500 Jewish POW's returning
- 536 Israeli troops in Eilat
- 564 Israel accepted into UN
- 616 Headlines of acceptance
- 637 Sharett speaking to assembly, Trygve Lie (UN, General Secretary) is seen
- 649 Israeli flag raised outside UN
- 690 Youth and soldiers marching, Ben Gurion, Abba Eban (Israel's Ambassador to UN) are seen
- 813 Mourners at graveside
- 842 Procession in forest, Ben Gurion speaking at ceremony and planting tree
- 880 GV: Trees
- 909 ENDS
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Reel 4:
- 000 CUs: Damaged buildings in settlements
- 035 Children playing on captured tank in Degania
- 053 Boy defender, who stopped tank, tending chickens
- 074 Wedding ceremony of two soldiers
- 105 Dancing at wedding
- 163 Truckloads of pioneers
- 185 Pioneers with picks
- 220 Settlement being erected
- 358 Settlers dancing
- 390 GV: Negev, and pioneers clearing rocks
- 421 Roadbuilding
- 455 Water pipes being laid
- 490 Field under plow
- 514 Water flowing
- 545 Pioneers in field
- 570 Reaping
- 638 Building in Beer Sheva
- 679 Shipload of immigrants disembarking
- 729 Flashback to Haganah ship "Exodus 1947" refugees being deported
- 781 New immigrants arriving
- 804 CUs: New arrivals in camps
- 837 Yemenite immigrants arriving by plane and kissing ground
- 876 CUs: New immigrants from different countries
- 933 ENDS
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- Reel 5
- 000 Invalids arriving by stretcher
- 013 Old people at home
- 038 People in streets
- 066 Clinic scene
- 102 Young children
- 134 Scenes in transit camp (Ma'abarot)
- 229 Immigrants arriving
- 240 CUs: Boys and girls in Youth Village kitchen
- 312 Children sitting outside
- 368 Working in field and playing music
- 404 Agricultural work in fields and farmyard
- 450 Fishing in lake
- 464 Factories, glass, textile
- 511 Cargo in docks at Haifa harbor
- 554 Building construction
- 570 GVs: Old housing
- 615 GV: Countryside
- 660 Tel Aviv: Dizengoff Circle
- 670 GV: Haifa
- 700 Ships arriving in Haifa
- 714 Immigrants arriving by boats
- 789 GV: Haifa
- 798 ENDS
Acc. to and adapted from Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive, Jerusalem |