[Cz-L] Czernowitz Movies

From: Jane Reifer <cluttercontrol_at_earthlink.net>
Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 22:04:14 EDT
To: <ls2307_at_columbia.edu>, "'Czernowitz Genealogy and History'" <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
Reply-To: cluttercontrol_at_earthlink.net

Hello,

I don't know of a home movie, but there is a bit of a newsreel about
Czernowitz from 1922 available from Archive Films at 212-822-7800. It's the
very last item on the following list.

Good luck,

Jane Reifer
Searching: REIFER, REISCH, HOROWITZ, ROESSLER from Czernowitz



File Number: GC-1922-4
Year: 1922
Color: B/W
Type: Newsreel

Description:
2 Gaston Vidal, Under Secy.-of-State and the boxer, George Chearpentier are
present for the beginning of construction on the Buffalo stadium.

3. Mister Silvain, Director of the Comedie Francaise, places a poem on the
grave of Moliere on the occasion of the tricentennial of his birth.

4. The cross-country race Biscot Challenge held at Clamart (Seine et Oise
France) was won by the Athletic Group of Montrouge.

5. In Brussels, The Counters Mathieu of Noailles was received at the Royal
Academy of the French Language of Belgium.

6. The Pope Benoit XV has died (Portrait of the Pope by Abbot Corbiere).

7. The hull of the ocean liner Victory was examined in dry dock.

8. In Buenos Aires the School of Artillery has its annual ceremony of
pledging to the flag.

9. Roumania - The engagement of King Alexander of Serbia with Princess
Mariola of Roumania are celebrated in Sinaia.

2nd frame
9. The arrival of King Alexander in Sinaia. The Pelisol castle where the
engagement takes place.

10. The silk industry in Japan is booming.

2nd frame

10. Report on different stages of the silk industry from the silkworm to the
fabric wearing.

11. Greece. Submarine bombs exploded aboard the Greek counter-torpedo boat,
Leon, claiming 50 victims.

12. Winter sports in Chicago where the championships in speed skating on ice
took place.

2nd frame

12. Artistic ice skating competition in Chicago.

13. USA - The battleship Milwaukee grounded for 6 years, is taken apart.

14. In Roumania, gymnastic festival at Czernowitz





  Do any of you have (or know of) home movies taken in
Czernowitz in the 1930's?

Leo Spitzer and Marianne Hirsch


Leo Spitzer
Professor of History
612 Fayerweather Hall

Received on 2005-05-03 23:44:21

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