Title:OBSTFELD FAMILY LIFE IN POST-WAR HOLLAND [Allocated Title]
Film Number:MGH 5224-3
Other titles:AMATEUR FILM BY ABRAHAM OBSTFELD [Alternative Title]
Summary: Amateur film shot by Mr Abraham Obstfeld (a Dutch Jew whose family survived the war in hiding) recording family life in post-war Amsterdam.
Description: A baby sitting in a bed, then being held by a woman. Two women in a park. Henri and other children playing in a playground. Shots of a family group (the film is so over-exposed it is not possible to identify people). A pro-Israel demonstration, with members of the Jewish Youth organisations, in the area around the Concertgebouw (Concert Hall), Amsterdam (14th or 15th May 1948). A meeting inside the Concertgebouw to celebrate the Declaration of Independence by the State of Israel, with portrait of Theodor Herzl on stage in background. Family walk towards the camera along a very wide street. More shots of a baby and mother? at home. A man laying in bed. Various scenes of Henri and his mum and dad playing in a park.
Alternative Title:AMATEUR FILM BY ABRAHAM OBSTFELD [Alternative Title]
Colour:B&W
Digitised:No
Object_Number:MGH 5224-3
Sound:Silent
Access Conditions:NON-IWM
Featured Period:
Production Date:1948
Production Country: Netherlands
Production Details: Obstfeld, Abraham (Production individual)
