ID

FBW002136      Short documentary

Country / Year

Israel / USA, 1961

Original Title

Years of Destiny / Shnot Hahachra’a

Other Title(s)

Jahre der Entscheidung (German)
Los Anos del destino

Directed by

Lasar Dunner

Produced by

Lasar Dunner Production, New York, NY; for Keren Hayessod, Jerusalem

Staff

Producer: Lasar Dunner; Script: Al Rosenfeld, Lasar Dunner, Marc Siegel (Kommentar); Narration: Alexander Scourby (engl. Version), Llopis de Olivares (span. Version); Consultant: Emmy Herrmann

Mentioned

Theodor Herzl; Alfred Dreyfus (French officer); Eliezer Ben Jehuda (Founder of modern Iwrit); David Ben Gurion (Prime Minister, Israel); Yitzchak Ben Zvi (President, Israel); Arthur Ruppin (WZO, Director); Chaim Weizmann (President, Israel); Edmund Allenby (British officer); Arturo Toscanini (Conductor); Henrietta Szold (Youth Aliya); Harry S. Truman (President, USA)

Length

27'

Format

16mm/sw/1:1,37

Remarks

1. In vier (dt./engl./franz./span.) Versionen produziert.

Abstract

Filmed stills. Presents Zionism from Theodor Herzl to the early years after the proclamation of the State of Israel includes Herzl's biography; flashbacks in Palestine; the various aliyot; WWI and the Turkish occupation; opening concert of the Philharmonic orchestra; proclamation of the State; and Operation "Ali Baba", the aliyah from Iraq.

Subject Terms

1910-1919; 1920-1929; 1930-1939; 1940-1949; Aliya; Aliya Bet; Briha; British Army; British Mandatory Regime; World War I; Exodus 47 (Ship); Refugee ships; Hagana; Haifa; Survivors of the Holocaust; Israel; Jewish displaced persons; Youth Aliyah; Palestine; United Nations; World War II; Cyprus

Holdings

- Deutsches Filminstitut – DIF, Frankfurt am Main: 282 m / 25'42''; 16mm; dt. Version
- Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive, Jerusalem: 256 m / 23'20''; 16mm; span. Version
- Bundesarchiv - Filmarchiv, Berlin: 290 m / 26'26''; 16mm; dt. Version
- Israel Film Archive - Jerusalem Cinematheque, Jerusalem: 27'; 16mm; engl. Version
- Israel Film Archive - Jerusalem Cinematheque, Jerusalem; 16mm; engl. Version
- Israel Film Archive - Jerusalem Cinematheque, Jerusalem; 16mm; franz. Version
- Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive, Jerusalem; 16mm; engl. Version
- Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive, Jerusalem; 16mm; hebr. Version
- National Center for Jewish Film, Waltham, MA; 16mm; hebr. Version
- Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, Bonn; 16mm; dt. Version

Bibliography

- Koolik, Murry Wolf: A Content Analysis of Educational Films about Israel. (thesis), New York, NY: NYU, 1971
- Abraham F. Rad Jewish Film Archives (Hg.): Filmography. Catalogue of Jewish Films in Israel. Jerusalem: The Hebrew University, 1972
- N.N.: The Jewish Audio-Visual Review, New York, NY: National Council on Jewish Audio-Visual Materials; American Association for Jewish Education, 1973
- Abraham F. Rad Jewish Film Archives (Hg.): Catalogue of Films. Jerusalem: The Hebrew University, 1976
- N.N.: Jewish Film Directory. London: Flicks Books, 1992

Contents (detailed)

Shotlist (- ft):
- 000 CUs: Israelis, agricultural work and urban Israel
- 040 CREDITS
- 058 Theodor Herzl's coffin arriving and reburied in Jerusalem
- 083 CUs: Herzl
- 095 19th century Vienna
- 112 Paris in the 1890's
- 124 CU: Herzl
- 127 Alfred Dreyfus's (French officer) dishonorable discharge
- 140 French trials
- 154 CU: Dreyfus
- 156 CUs: Herzl
- 160 CU: Cover of "The Jewish State"
- 176 GV: Basle
- 190 First Zionist Congress
- 207 Second Zionist Congress
- 215 Herzl in Palestine
- 220 GVs: Palestine ca. 1905
- 230 Chasidim
- 235 Old City
- 237 Western Wall
- 243 Arab Shepherds
- 247 Barren land
- 250 Early pioneers
- 266 CU: Eliezer Ben Yehuda (Founder of modern Hebrew)
- 269 Map of Palestine
- 277 CU: Cover of "Altneuland"
- 284 CU: Herzl
- 294 Herzl's funeral, 1904
- 302 Second aliya pioneers
- 341 CU: David Ben Gurion (Prime Minister) and Yitzchak Ben Zvi (President)
- 345 Jewish watchman in Arab dress
- 363 Jaffa
- 366 Arthur Ruppin, first director of WZO office in Jaffa
- 368 Pioneers
- 373 Sand dunes and ground-breaking of Tel Aviv, 1909
- 390 Degania
- 394 Settlers working on land
- 400 WWI headline
- 403 Jews deported by Turks
- 407 Chaim Weizmann (President)
- 415 Balfour Declaration
- 421 Edmund Allenby (British officer) entering Jerusalem
- 432 Armistice headline
- 437 British Mandate established
- 441 1920 London Conference
- 449 Third aliya pioneers
- 457 Agricultural work
- 469 Settlements in Jezreel Valley
- 476 Road building
- 480 Industrial plants
- 485 Agricultural work
- 490 Immigrants arriving by ship
- 499 Nazis in Germany
- 511 German refugees
- 524 Work on settlement
- 534 Palestine Philharmonic Orchestra poster
- 536 Arturo Toscanini conducting opening concert, 1936
- 553 Youth Aliya children
- 560 Henrietta Szold (Youth Aliya)
- 564 Youth Aliya children in village
- 580 Arab riots
- 583 Hagana training
- 595 New settlements
- 607 1939 White Paper
- 615 Jews rioting in Palestine
- 621 WWII
- 623 Invasion of Poland in newspaper headline
- 626 Jews fighting in British Army
- 632 Jewish Brigade headquarters
- 635 Headline of German surrender
- 637 Concentration Camp survivors
- 645 Refugees and illegal immigrant ships
- 667 Refugees deported to Cyprus
- 684 Arrivals on beach
- 688 British soldiers
- 691 New settlements in Negev
- 702 Weizmann and Harry S. Truman (President, US)
- 704 UN
- 712 Arabs at UN
- 714 Bomb damage in Jerusalem
- 730 Declaration of Independence
- 745 War of Independence
- 756 Arab troops surrendering
- 766 CU: Palmach members
- 771 Immigrant ships arriving
- 800 Immigrants at work
- 813 Knesset
- 817 More immigrants arriving
- 840 ENDS
Acc. to and adapted from Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive, Jerusalem

Credits

- 1. YEARS / OF / DESTINY
- 2. Presented by / KEREN HAYESOD / UNITED ISRAEL APPEAL / Story by / AL ROSENFELD / and / LASAR DUNNER / Consultant / EMMY HERRMANN / Narrated by / ALEXANDER SCOURBY / Written by / MARC SIEGEL / Directed and Produced / by / LASAR DUNNER
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- 1. THE END / A / LASAR DUNNER / Production
- 2. The Photos of this film are in the main / from archives of the / Keren Hayesod - United Israel Appeal / Jerusalem, and from the / Zionist Archives, / Jerusalem and New York
- 3. Our appreciation is extended / to the Zionist Archives / for their advise and assistance / and to: / American Jewish / Joint Distribution Committee / American Embassy - New York / French Embassy - New York / General Federation of Jewish Labor / Israel Government / Press Information Office / Israel Philharmonic Orchestra / Jewish Agency - Jerusalem / Jewish National Fund - Jerusalem / New York Public Library
Original-Vor/Nachspann (engl. Version), Abschrift lt. Kopie: National Center for Jewish Film, Waltham, MA