On the eve of World War I, Jews in European ghettos and market towns were transfixed by a new sensation: motion picture images from Palestine. Many had never seen a movie before and some cried as they escaped the cold Russian landscape for a moment, on a celluloid pilgrimage to the land of milk and honey.
Director: Noah Sokolovsky.
Cinematographers: Miron Osipovich Grosmann, Miron Osip Grossman.
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Something more like a home movie rather than a documentary but with footage that I have never seen before. It portrays a lively,well-disciplined ,hard working community building cities,creating agricultural communities,and from what I can see having lots of children. There is with its many scenes of ordered marching and parades a feeling that Europe was happily left behind.
Uimitor. Multumesc pentru acest film extraordinar
It is in films like this that I really feel my lack of appropriate education holding me back. I’ve seen a number of silent documentary pictures by now–from the Dixon-Wanamaker Expedition to Crow Agency (Joseph K. Dixon and Roland Dixon, 1908) to Cologne (Raymond W. Dowidat and Esther Dowidat, 1939)–and I never quite know how I should be viewing, understanding, or absorbing them. I am glad for the rare opportunity to see documents of the past, but my degree is in narrative, not historical, studies, and I’m never quite sure what to take away from silent documentaries. I can tell that I’m supremely lucky to be witnessing such rare jewels of cinema, but I haven’t the background to appreciate these sorts of things in any further detail. I suppose that my willingness to watch and try to learn is, at least, a good start. If anyone reading this knows of any sort of book or resource that could give me a proper grounding in how to watch films like this properly and/or an introduction to this film in particular, I would be grateful if you could leave a reply to this comment with a recommendation.
One curious observation: Just after the 37-minute mark, in one of the shots of worshippers on their way to the Wailing Wall, a great many people begin to hide their faces from the camera so as not to be photographed. No one before or after this shot does such a thing, not even others on their way to (or at) the Wailing Wall. I haven’t the faintest idea why only in this shot do people seem camera-shy. Again, my lack of subject-matter background seems to be causing me trouble.