ID

FBW002956      Docudrama

Country / Year

USA, 1952

Original Title

To Save One Life

Directed by

[?]

Produced by

Hadassah, the Women's International Zionist Organisation of America, Inc., New York, NY

Staff

Producer: Hazel Greenwald; Script: Mina Brownstone; Camera: Stephen L. Sharff; Editing: Stephen L. Sharff; Sound editing: Harry Glass; Sound: Lucille Berkson; Technical, var: Wolf Elkin (Electrician); Music: Jacob Weinberg

Cast

Odette Francis; Cynthia Amias; Ramona Francis; Yardana Segal; Mary Lou Hennessey; Ralph Bellamy

Length

320 m / 29'10''

Format

16mm/farbe/1:1,37

Abstract

Two young orphaned Yemenite sisters who are helped to find a new life in Israel by Hadassah's Youth Aliyah program. The two girls are taken to a children's village where the psychiatrist who found them assists them in adjusting with other boys and girls.

Subject Terms

1950-1959; Israel; Youth Aliyah; Ma'abarot

Holdings

- Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive, Jerusalem: 320 m / 29'10''; 16mm

Bibliography

- Antonini, Josephine S.: Educational Film Guide. 1954-1958, New York, NY: H.W. Wilson Company, 1958

Contents (detailed)

Shotlist (- ft)
- 000 Ralph Bellamy introduced film (missing frame)
- 037 TITLES
- 058 Child psychologist in Jerusalem with shots of letter-writing
- 098 Haifa
- 103 Leaving Jerusalem for Alonei Yitzchak
- 127 Lod, arrival of Eastern immigrants
- 150 Arrival of children
- 154 Transit camps, Youth Aliya group leaves transit camps
- 225 Incident at transit camps, children who also want to go to Youth Aliya
- 270 Transit camps scenes, Hadassah hospital at Rosh Ha'ayin
- 376 Road, scenery
- 387 Alonei Yitzchak village, Tamar's acceptance into the group
- 468 Classroom in village, formal studies, fields
- 511 Livestock
- 535 Dramatic sequence - accept sister in village?
- 565 Tamar in her room
- 590 Kindergarten
- 640 Erev Sabbath, Kabbalat Sabbath, dancing, singing
- 678 Tamar's Yemenite dance
- 717 Passover preparations
- 746 Dramatic sequence involving sister
- 765 Youth Aliya staff meeting, Tamar runs away
- 857 Looking for Tamar
- 880 Transit camps, find Tamar
- 921 Seder at Alonei Yitzchak village, sisters re-united
- 1025 Social worker's letter-writing
- 1040 Sisters at Seder
- 1050 ENDS
Acc. to and adapted from Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive, Jerusalem