ID

FBW002163      Short documentary

Country / Year

Israel, 1956

Original Title

The Lachish Story / Sipur Lachish

Other Title(s)

Ultima Escala - Lajish

Directed by

Baruch Dienar

Produced by

Israel Motion Picture Studios Ltd., Herzlia / Tel Aviv; for Keren Hayessod, Jerusalem

Staff

Producer: Baruch Dienar; Production assistance: Paul Tyras; On-screen commentary: Lea Porat; Camera: Rolf Michael Kneller, Eli Levy; Editing: Ivan Lengyel; Sound: Dov Zimmer; Music: Frank Pelleg

Length

372,7 m / 34'

Format

16mm/sw1:1,37

Remarks

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

Further Remarks

- Kopierwerk: Berkey Pathe Humphries (Israel)

Abstract

Moroccan immigrants sail from France to Israel, and one family is seen adjusting to life in a new village in the Lachish region.

Subject Terms

1950-1959; Immigration; Haifa; Israel; Jerusalem; Tel Aviv

Holdings

- Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive, Jerusalem: 372,7 m / 34'; 16mm

Bibliography

- Antonini, Josephine S.: Educational Film Guide. 1954-1958, New York, NY: H.W. Wilson Company, 1958
- Abraham F. Rad Jewish Film Archives (Hg.): Catalogue of Films. Jerusalem: The Hebrew University, 1976
- Kronish, Amy: World Cinema: Israel. Trowbridge: Flicks Books, 1996

Contents (detailed)

Shotlist (- ft):
- 000 CREDITS
- 025 "The diary of Esther Okhayon"
- 030 Prayer for safe voyage being said on the deck of "S.S. Jerusalem"
- 061 Esther writing diary on deck
- 073 Israeli flag hoisted in transit camp - prospective immigrants sing "Hatikva"
- 109 Immigrants getting ready and leaving camp on buses
- 173 CU: Esther and members of her family on deck
- 205 GV: Sea
- 216 Children playing and other passengers passing time on board
- 253 Sea
- 258 Okhayon family talking to Jewish Agency official on board
- 269 Singing at a farewell party
- 306 Sea
- 310 CU: Esther gazing out of porthole
- 315 CU: Luggage
- 336 Passengers going up on deck with luggage
- 377 LV: Haifa bay and passengers looking out
- 391 GV: Ship sailing into harbor
- 396 Passengers dancing on deck
- 403 Ship sailing into bay
- 406 CUs: Passengers as ship sails into harbor
- 467 GV: Otsem village, Lachish
- 472 Bezalel putting up "Welcome" sign and going to meet trucks with wife, Chava
- 510 Trucks arriving; CUs: New immigrants
- 529 GV: Village
- 541 Bezalel and others standing to greet newcomers
- 547 Immigrants getting off trucks
- 579 Avraham and Sara moving into new house and examining unfamiliar equipment
- 718 Children in class
- 746 Walking past building
- 753 Bezalel pointing out agricultural area
- 758 GV: Otsem
- 771 CUs: Roman antiquities
- 784 Teacher explaining archeological remains
- 797 Children discovering ancient pot and running home.
- 817 Children meeting soldier
- 845 Avraham and Sara outside new home
- 875 Soldier coming home with children
- 878 Husband and wife sitting together outside
- 893 Bezalel and Chava at home mending ancient pot
- 937 Domestic science class
- 945 Adults learning Hebrew
- 950 Children in class
- 960 Kindergarten
- 966 Mothers with babies at clinic
- 981 Sara bathing baby at home, watched by family
- 1022 Avraham in fields and coming home from work
- 1083 Children greeting and climbing on wagon
- 1103 Sara and Avraham at home with baby
- 1161 Tea-table laid outside
- 1170 CU: Old man
- 1172 Bezalel and Chava putting up "Welcome" sign as others prepare to greet new arrivals
- 1197 Settlers running to meet trucks
- 1210 Bezalel and Chava going towards truck
- 1223 ENDS
Acc. to and adapted from Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive, Jerusalem