ID

FBW000160      Short documentary

Country / Year

USA / Palestine, 1945

Original Title

Histadrut. Builder of A Nation

Directed by

Paul Victor Falkenberg

Produced by

Educational Documentary Films, New York, NY; for National Labor Committee for Palestine, New York, NY/Tel Aviv / Histadrut, Tel Aviv

Staff

Producer: Paul Victor Falkenberg; Script: Paul Victor Falkenberg; Music: Karol Rathaus; Musical direction: Max Goberman; Narration: Harold Gordon; Consultant: Samuel Kurland

Appearance

David Ben Gurion (Jewish Agency)

Length

259,08 m / 23'41'' oder 225,25 m / 20'32''

Format

16mm/sw/1:1,37

Dates

- 00 May 1945: Premiere, New York, NY (Museum of Modern Art)

Remarks

1. In engl. Sprache.

Abstract

Describing the history of Histadrut and the many ways it influenced life in Palestine.

Subject Terms

1920-1929; 1930-1939; 1940-1949; Immigration; Exile films; General Federation of Workers in the Land of Israel; Palestine; Purim; Tel Aviv

Holdings

- National Center for Jewish Film, Waltham, MA: 225,25 m / 20'32''; 16mm

Materials

- Queens College, Rosenthal Library, New York, NY: Rathaus Archive; div.
- Queens College, Rosenthal Library, New York, NY: Rathaus Archive; Partitur

Bibliography

- Dyck, Richard (als: r.d.): "Bauleute einer Nation. National Labor Committee for Palestine zeigt Werden und Wirken der Histadrut im Film", in: Aufbau (New York, NY), Jg. 11, Nr. 20, 18.05.1945
- Lubinski (Lubinsky), Kurt (als: K.L.): "Das Beispiel der Histadrut", in: Aufbau (New York, NY), Jg. 11, Nr. 27, 06.07.1945
- N.N.: Catalogue of Audio-Visual Materials. New York, NY: Jewish Center Lecture Bureau, National Jewish Welfare Board, 1949
- Krahn, Frederic A.: Educational Film Guide, Ed. 11, New York, NY: H.W. Wilson Company, 1953
- Fox, Stuart: Jewish Films in the United States. New York, NY: K.G. Hall, 1976
- Loewy, Ronny: "Die Welt neu zusammenfügen. Paul Falkenbergs Filme einer 'Displaced Society'", in: Filmexil (Berlin), Nr. 8, November, 01.11.1996
- Schüssler, Martin: Karol Rathaus. Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / Bruxelles / New York / Wien: Peter Lang, 2000

Contents (detailed)

Shotlist (- ft):
- 000 View of fields
- ----- New buildings going up
- ----- Young man working in the fields
- ----- Woman feeding chickens
- ----- More people in the field
- ----- People from different countries, "a new society rooted in the old soil in Palestine"
- ----- View of (unidentified) city
- ----- Daily life of a Histadrut worker, people taking care of the different aspects of life on a farm
- 270 Purim Festival in Tel Aviv, parade, floats, dancing in the streets
- 326 Guns
- ----- Tanks
- ----- Explosion
- 348 Symbolic march to Masada
- ----- View from the top of the mountain
- ----- Traditional song and dances
- 368 David Ben Gurion (Jewish Agency) at meeting (no sync)
- ----- People volunteering for battle, no conscription in Palestine at that time
- ----- Drilling
- ----- Women changing tires, repairing jeep
- ----- Women driving ambulance
- ----- Women who stayed behind (on the farms) picked up all the chores and jobs previously done by the male fellow workers
- ----- Immigrants arriving in Israel by boat (no specific location)
- ----- Sign in front of building: "Shalom - Good luck with you"
- 702 View of settlement (no location) and new city
- ----- Symphony
- ----- Schools
- ----- Shops
- 738 Parade
- ----- New buildings
- ----- Fishing industries
- ----- Factories
- 850 THE END

Credits

- 1. THE NATIONAL / LABOR COMMITTEE / FOR PALESTINE / Presents
- 2. HISTADRUT / Builder of a Nation
- 3. Narrator / Harold Gordon
- 4. Special Consultant / Dr. Sam Kurland
- 5. Music conducted by / Max Goberman
- 6. Original Score / by / Karol Rathaus
- 7. Written and Produced / by / Paul Falkenberg
Abschrift lt. Kopie: National Center for Jewish Film, Waltham, MA