ID

FBW002111      Short documentary

Country / Year

Israel / USA, 1970

Original Title

Make Deep Their Roots

Directed by

Lasar Dunner

Produced by

Lasar Dunner Production, New York, NY; for Keren Kayemeth Le-Israel (KKL) (=Jewish National Fund / Jüdischer Nationalfonds [JNF]), Jerusalem

Staff

Producer: Lasar Dunner; Script: Herbert Freeden; Camera: Chanania Baer

Mentioned

Mordechai Anilewicz (Warsaw Ghettow fighter) (Statue)

Length

214,3 m / 19'32''

Format

16mm/farbe/1:1,37

Remarks

1. In zwei (engl./hebr.) Versionen produziert.

Abstract

Fundraiser. A Keren Kayemeth Le-Israel (KKL) (=Jewish National Fund [JNF]) Blue Box prizewinner visits Israel and sees for herself the work of the JNF in reclaiming the land of Israel over the past 70 years.

Subject Terms

1960-1969; 1970-1979; Fundraising; Haifa; Survivors of the Holocaust; Israel; Jerusalem; Jewish Agency; Jewish displaced persons; Jewish National Fund; Tel Aviv; Warsaw (Ghetto); Warsaw ghetto uprising; Cyprus

Holdings

- Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive, Jerusalem: 214,3 m / 19'32''; 16mm; engl. Version
- Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive, Jerusalem; 16mm; ? Version
- Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive, Jerusalem; 16mm; ? Version
- Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive, Jerusalem; 16mm; ? Version

Bibliography

- Abraham F. Rad Jewish Film Archives (Hg.): Filmography. Catalogue of Jewish Films in Israel. Jerusalem: The Hebrew University, 1972
- Abraham F. Rad Jewish Film Archives (Hg.): Catalogue of Films. Jerusalem: The Hebrew University, 1976

Contents (detailed)

Shotlist (- ft):
- 000 El Al plane landing
- 023 Passengers getting off, including Chana
- 040 Chana greeted by JNF representative
- 045 CREDITS
- 057 Chana driving through countryside with guide and looking at trees
- 087 GVs: Old City walls in Jerusalem
- 104 CU: David's Tower
- 108 JNF building
- 113 Chana and guide entering
- 135 CU: Map of JNF projects
- 141 Money being put into blue boxes
- 145 CUs: Shapira's and Herzl's blue boxes
- 159 Stills of European refugees and blue box in Cyprus camp
- 169 Mother putting money in box before lighting Sabbath candles
- 195 Street scenes in London, Paris and other cities, intercut with blue boxes
- 217 Chana and guide examining Golden Books
- 259 CU: Statue of Mordechai Anilewicz (Warsaw Ghettow fighter)
- 265 CUs: Golden Books
- 284 Cultivated fields
- 297 Children on kibbutz
- 302 CUs: Golden Books
- 307 Land being cleared
- 313 Tourists arriving to inspect them
- 321 CUs: Books on shelves
- 348 Chana and guide at Western Wall
- 385 Walking in Old City streets
- 420 In crowded Tel Aviv streets
- 484 Chana swimming in pool
- 504 GV: Haifa
- 527 Loading in docks
- 564 GV: City
- 574 GV: Negev
- 581 Settlers working
- 584 Land being cleared
- 595 Road
- 602 Cultivated fields
- 609 Agricultural machinery in field
- 615 GV: Settlements
- 622 Landscape
- 632 Chana. CUs: Blue boxes
- 645 Land being cleared intercut with blue boxes
- 656 Chana planting tree
- 703 ENDS
Acc. to and adapted from Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive, Jerusalem