ID

FBW000164      Short documentary

Country / Year

USA, 1947

Original Title

Report on the Living

Directed by

Paul Victor Falkenberg

Produced by

Educational Documentary Films, New York, NY; for American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, Inc. (JDC), New York, NY

Staff

Producer: Paul Victor Falkenberg; Script: Raphael Levy; On-screen commentary: Edward M.M. Warburg (JDC, Chairman); Supervision: Al Paul Lefton; Editing: Paul Victor Falkenberg; Singing: Pinchos Jassinowsky (Reverent)

Appearance

Edward M.M. Warburg (JDC, Chairman); Moses A. Leavitt (JDC, Executive Vice-Chairman and Secretary); Joseph J. Schwartz (JDC, National Council, Chairman); Josef Weil (Survivor)

Length

283,5 m / 25'50''

Format

16mm/sw/1:1,37

Dates

- 00 Apr 1947: Premiere

Remarks

1. In drei (engl./jidd./span.) Versionen produziert.

Abstract

Fundraiser. Record on the post-war conditions of 1.500.000 Jewish survivors in Europe made during the trip by Edward M.M. Warburg (JDC, Chairman). The film is composed of footage photographed for the JDC in Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, France, Italy and Germany.

Subject Terms

1940-1949; American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee; Bratislava; Briha; Budapest; American zone; Immigration; Fundraising; Hachshara; Haifa; Survivors of the Holocaust; Italy; Yiddish cinema; Jewish displaced persons; Kielce; Munich; New York, NY; Organization for Rehabilitation through Training; Palestine; Paris; Poland; Prague; Rome; Sports; TOZ; USA; United Nations; Warsaw; Warsaw (Ghetto); Central Committee of the Liberated Jews in the British Zone; Zettlitz

Holdings

- Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive, Jerusalem: 280,5 m / 25'34'; 16mm; engl. Version
- Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive, Jerusalem; U-MATIC/PAL; Outtakes; ohne Ton; s. REPORT ON THE LIVING [Outtakes 1] u. REPORT ON THE LIVING [Outtakes 2]
- YIVO Institute, New York; NY; 16mm; engl. Version
- National Center for Jewish Film, Waltham, MA: 283,5 m / 25'50'; 16mm; engl. Version
- National Center for Jewish Film, Waltham, MA; 16mm; engl. Version
- National Center for Jewish Film, Waltham, MA; 16mm; jidd. Version
- National Center for Jewish Film, Waltham, MA; 16mm; span. Version

Materials

- National Center for Jewish Film, Waltham, MA; Reklame, 2 S.
- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), New York, NY; Brief, Robert M. Jacobs (Bnai Brith Hillel Foundation) an JDC (18.11.1948), Typoscript, 1 S.
- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), New York, NY; Pressetext, Raphael Levy (25.04.1947), Typoscript, 2 S.
- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), New York, NY; Filmprotokoll, Typoscript, 25 S.

Bibliography

- N.N.: "Plight of Jews in Film. J.D.C. Offers 'Report on the Living' to Community Groups", in: The New York Times, 23.04.1947
- N.N.: Catalogue of Audio-Visual Materials. New York, NY: Jewish Center Lecture Bureau, National Jewish Welfare Board, 1949
- 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

Contents (detailed)

Shotlist (- ft):
- 000 CREDITS and Introduction
- 029 CU: Newspaper headlines of Edward M.M. Warburgs (JDC, Chairman) visit to Europe and map
- 046 Warburg introducing film
- 074 GVs: Fundraising committees at work
- 080 Map of europe
- 084 GV, Ext: JDC Headquarter in New York
- 089 Moses A. Leavitt (JDC, Executive Vice-Chairman and Secretary) in New York
- 093 Ext: JDC office in Rue du Teheran, Paris
- 099 CU: Joseph J. Schwartz (JDC, National Council, Chairman) in JDC Center, Paris
- 101 JDC truck near Arc de Triomphe
- 107 JDC trucks on road
- 119 Supplies being unloaded
- 129 Survivor statistics superimposed on European map
- 142 Survivors visitig martyrs graves
- 149 Candles burning in Rome catacombs
- 152 Congregation praying in Munich
- 155 Chazan singing
- 165 CUs: DPs in camps
- 184 CUs: Barefoot children
- 192 Allied tanks and burning swastika
- 199 Concentration camp inmates cheering allies
- 203 GV: UN session
- 207 GV: Refugee in DP camp
- 212 Warburg talking
- 245 Ruins of Warsaw Ghetto
- 265 Nurses tending babies in TOZ (Towarzystwo Ochrany Zdrowia [=Society for Health Protection of the Jewish Population in Poland]) clinic in 1938
- 275 Children exercising
- 282 GV: Post-war rubble
- 284 JDC workers packing clothes for DPs
- 290 Clothing distribution center
- 301 Man examined for Tuberculosis
- 306 Convalescents in hospital
- 320 Babies in clinic
- 335 Children playing in orphanage
- 360 Brushing teeth and going to bed
- 367 Refugees on road in Poland as a result of Kielce Pogrom, July 1946
- 381 Refugees crossing Czech border
- 392 JDC truck on road
- 403 GV: Transit station in Bratislava
- 410 Refugees at station collecting food
- 427 Waiting to board train for US zone in Germany
- 442 Train moving off
- 451 Prague streets
- 454 Ext, Int: Synagogue
- 459 Dedication of new Sifrei Tora
- 474 Schwartz and Warburg meeting in Paris
- 481 Children eating in orphanage
- 491 Man receiving loan in JDC office
- 503 Survivors in cooperative furniture factory
- 522 Women weaving
- 537 CUs: Women cloth
- 546 GV: Budapest
- 550 Bundles of clothes in JDC storehouse
- 566 DPs receiving food
- 576 Trucks on road to Germany
- 591 DPs in crowded barracks
- 606 Central Committee of Liberated Jews meeting
- 621 Woman teaching children outdoors
- 629 Men in Joinery workshop
- 641 DPs at Hachshara farm in Zettlitz
- 661 DPs working on Hachshara farm in Italy
- 672 Survivors relaxing in convalescents home
- 698 Boys getting into boat on beach
- 706 Practising knots
- 713 Rowing and casting nets
- 725 Children playing in Garden in France
- 742 Eating in dining room
- 757 Boys in workshop
- 778 Children at synagogue service
- 795 Warburg talking
- 837 Survivor Josef Weil talking
- 848 GV: Boats, seashore and Palestine
- 857 Man sowing in field
- 865 Man in workshop
- 879 Crowd watching boxing match
- 884 Children walking
- 891 Dancing hora
- 911 Appeal
- 920 END
Acc. to and adapted from Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive, Jerusalem

Credits

- 1. The American Jewish / JOINT DISTRIBUTION / COMMITTEE / Presents
- 2. REPORT ON THE / LIVING
- 3. Narrated by / EDWARD M.M. WARBURG / Chairman / Joint Distribution Committee
- 4. Written by / RAPHAEL LEVY
- 5. Traditional Chants by / REV. PINCHOS JASSINOWSKY
- 6. Film Supervision / AL PAUL LEFTON
- 7. Directed and Produced by / PAUL FALKENBERG
- 8. This story of the work of the Joint Distribution / Committee, today engaged in its greatest effort to / relieve human distress and suffering has been made / possible by the active and generous cooperation of / numerous individuals and institutions to whom the / makers of this film express their gratitude: / CANADIAN FILM BOARD / FILMOVA KRONIKA / Czechoslovakia / DIRECTION DU CINEMA / ECLAIR JOURNAL / ECLAIREURS ISRAELITE DE FRANCE / FEDERATION DES ASSOCIATIONS JUIVES / UNION DES JUIFS POUR LA RESISTANCE ET ENTR'AIDE / France / CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF LIBERATED JEWS - / UNITED STATES ZONE / Germany / JOINT RELIEF COMMITTEE / Hungary / S.A.C.I. / Italy / FILM POLSKA / Poland / UNRRA / U.S. ARMY SIGNAL CORPS / And to personnal of JDC area officers and / cooperating agencies throughout the world.
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- 1. You give to the / JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE / when you GIVE to the / UNITED JEWISH APPEAL / for $ 170.000.000 / on behalf of the / JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE / UNITED PALESTINE APPEAL / UNITED SERVICE FOR NEW AMERICANS
- 2. THE / END
Abschrift lt. Kopie: National Center for Jewish Film, Waltham, MA