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#13458: REMEMBER US
Order1960-07-18, WNEW, 53 min.
- Adolf Hitler
- Steven Spielberg
- Phil Gries
- Quentin Reynolds
- Dr. Gisela Perl
- Sonia Weissman
- Janus T.
- Alain Resnais
- Leo Weissman
1 Results found for Remember Us Pages: [1] #13458: REMEMBER US 1960-07-18, WNEW, 53 min. Adolf Hitler, Steven Spielberg, Phil Gries, Quentin Reynolds, Dr. Gisela Perl, Sonia Weissman, Janus T., Alain Resnais, Leo Weissman A one-hour special report. Jewish survivors of Nazi atrocities and concentration camp horrors relate their past experiences. Quentin Reynolds is the host and narrator. "Nothing will remain of the Jewish question but a cemetery," predicted a Nazi official when Hitler's program to eliminate the Jews began in earnest in 1938. Many hundreds of cemeteries were filled before Allied victory halted the Nazi machine in 1945. " REMEMBER US" tells the story of the millions of European Jews who died in prison camps and ghettos during this period, and of those who survived. Past footage from Documentary films and the accounts of survivors are used to piece together a scenario of life and death as Typhus and starvation stalked the prisoners in the concentration camps, including Dachau, Breendonk, Auschwitz, and Buchenwald, and the ghettos of Europe. Survivors describe the resistance which met the Nazi decision to destroy the Warsaw ghetto in 1943, lengthy trips by cattle-car to extermination camps, capricious selection of gas chamber victims and the endless variety of tortures devised to bring about Hitler's "final solution to the Jewish question." Broadcast on TV on July 18, 1960 the "Remember Us" documentary which includes fragments from Alain Resnais' classic 32 minute documentary "Night and Fog" (1956), opens with Dr. Gisela Perl, a survivor of the Holocaust...a Romanian Jewish Gynecologist deported to Auschwitz in 1944 where she attended hundreds of women as an inmate gynecologist without the bare necessities to perform her work, delegated by Josef Mengele. She relates her ordeal and the ordeal of others. Dr. Pearl is best known for her published book in 1948, "I Was A Doctor in Auschwitz." Other interviews are spoken by Sonia Weissman (the donor's wife and a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto), Janus T (a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising), and Mr. Friedman (a survivor of Treblinka). The film goes on to use various well-known pieces of footage that exists in the USHMM film and video collection, such as German newsreel footage, Nuremberg War Crimes Trials as well as other war crimes trials, Mogilev gas van footage, etc. The film also incorporates well-known still photographs. There are images (and montages) of equipment used for medical experimentation, for example, a gynecological examination chair. At the conclusion of the film, narrator Quentin Reynolds warns that the Holocaust must be remembered least it be repeated. He then goes on to use the example of apartheid in South Africa as a [contemporary] parallel. This extraordinary documentary which aired only one time and repeated in the early morning hours, has been forgotten by the public for 60 years. It is not available anywhere except for an archived 16mm print donated as a gift by Leo Weissman to the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1999. A Variety Review described the film this way. "In the annals of TV there probably hasn't been a more gruesome documentary than 'Remember Us,' an hour-length depiction of the Nazi horror which ravaged 9 ,000,000 lives and left an open sore on humanity's conscience. No better telling has caught the diabolic character of the Nazi regime than ‘Remember Us,' a title which echoes and re-echoes when matched against the past and present. It is not easy to view and listen; a terrible reminder for an unsettled world." NOTE: It is interesting that 34 years later Steven Spielberg would initiate a six-year worldwide filming coordination, producing "Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation Project," begun in 1994 with the objective to film/video tape and preserve first-person survivor testimonies and encourage their use in education. In 1985, Phil Gries, founder and owner of Archival Television Audio, Inc. filmed a series of interviews with filmmaker Cluade Lanzmann which were televised each night for four consecutive nights after an installment of Lanzmann's nine-and-a-half-hour epic documentary SHOAH, broadcast on PBS in its entirety. Nine years later, in December of 1994, Gries worked on the documentary "Bringing the Holocaust Home," for the BBC. For many days Gries filmed inside the new United States Holocaust Museum, in Washington DC, which was closed to the public during filming sequences within the museum. This landmark institution opened its doors for the first time to the public the previous year (March 22, 1993). Half - a- year later Phil Gries was hired to film 15 interviews (July-September 1995)...65 hours of footage with holocaust survivors for the Spielberg Survivors of the Shoah project at the inception of Spielberg's visionary undertaking. Most of the sit-down interviews, conducted by social workers, averaged two hours long. Some of them lasted four hours long. It was ALWAYS an emotional experience for subject and all others involved in the filming. Today, twenty-five years later,112,000 thousand hours (52,000 separate interviews) of interviews have been conducted around the world and are preserved in The Visual History Archive. The material is digitized, and fully searchable via indexed keywords, and hyperlinked to the minute at the USC SHOAH FOUNDATION in Southern California. REMEMBER US (1960), in many respects one of the first of such documentary retrospectives of the horrors of the Holocaust, remains a most hard hitting and compelling reminder and retelling of the horrors of Adolf Hitler's "solution to the Jewish question."
1976-03-27, ABC, 60 min.
- Goldie Hawn
- Ann-Margret
- Rona Barrett
- Lee Grant
- Jack Nicholson
- Walter Matthau
- Lily Tomlin
- Ronee Blakley
- Bill Murray
- Steven Spielberg
- Michael Douglas
- Louise Fletcher
- Al Pacino
- Brian Doyle-Murray
- Christopher Guest
- Verna Fields
- Harold Ramis
- Ken Kesey
- Ivan Passer
- Saul Zaentz
- Milos Forman
Rona Barrett looks at the Oscar nominees for 1975 in this live pre-Oscar special.
1977-04-08, WNBC, 58 min.
- Tom Snyder
- Richard Dreyfuss
- Steven Spielberg
- Robert Shaw
- Sidney J. Sheinberg
- Richard Zanuck
- Naura Hayden
- Nora Hayden
"The Tomorrow Show" with Tom Snyder is NOT AVAILABLE FOR SALE. October 15, 1973-January 28, 1982. An hour-long talk show hosted by Tom Snyder. Network television's first entry into late-late-night programming on weeknights Monday thru Thursday, usually broadcasting on tape 1 AM to 2 AM. "Tomorrow" was expanded to 90 minutes on September 16, 1980. Steven Spielberg's very first sit down interview on television. He discusses with Tom Snyder how he made "hem and stich" 8mm "mayhem" films as a teenager, and spent an entire summer while in High School roaming the Universal movie lot, observing TV episodic television being made (Wagon Train, Convoy, Run For Your Life), and observing editors doing their craft. Spielberg describes how one of his college films was seen by head of Universal, Sidney J. Sheinberg, who gave the young filmmaker a chance to direct ten episodic television programs, including Night Gallery, Marcus Welby M.D. and Colombo with Peter Falk who Spielberg states he enjoyed working with very much. He mentions that these first films for Universal, including three feature length made for television efforts, were a great experience for future feature films that he would soon be working on, including Jaws which is discussed related to challenges working with a mechanical shark. Spielberg also recalls anecdotes about working with Robert Shaw and Richard Dreyfuss on Jaws. He talks briefly about his next film Close Encounters of the Third Kind, which he has been working on for the past three years, scheduled to open in theaters during the Christmas holiday (1977). Tom Snyder's second guest is actress, singer, author, Naura Hayden who discusses her book " Everything You've Always Wanted to Know About Energy Buy Were Too Weak to Ask." Naura (Nora) mentions how she has turned her life around, physically and mentally, with her health shake consisting of brewer's yeast, lecithin, and safflower oil, no longer craving a need to drink alcohol, smoke cigarettes, drink coffee or consume sugar.
1977-04-08, WNBC, 28 min.
"The Tomorrow Show" with Tom Snyder is NOT AVAILABLE FOR SALE. October 15, 1973-January 28, 1982. Guest is Steven Spielberg...one of his first television sit-down interviews at the beginning of his career. An hour-long talk show hosted by Tom Snyder. Network television's first entry into late-late-night programming on weeknights Monday thru Thursday, usually broadcasting on tape 1 AM to 2 AM. "Tomorrow" was expanded to 90 minutes on September 16, 1980. Steven Spielberg's very first sit-down interview on television. He discusses with Tom Snyder how he made "hem and stich" 8mm "mayhem" films as a teenager and spent an entire summer while in High School roaming the Universal movie lot, observing TV episodic television being made (Wagon Train, Convoy, Run For Your Life), and observing editors doing their craft. Spielberg describes how one of his college films was seen by head of Universal, Sidney J. Sheinberg, who gave the young filmmaker a chance to direct ten episodic television programs, including Night Gallery, Marcus Welby M.D. and Colombo with Peter Falk who Spielberg states he enjoyed working with very much. He mentions that these first films for Universal, including three feature length made for television efforts, were a great experience for future feature films that he would soon be working on, including Jaws which is discussed related to challenges working with a mechanical shark. Spielberg also recalls anecdotes about working with Robert Shaw and Richard Dreyfuss on Jaws. He talks briefly about his next film Close Encounters of the Third Kind, which he has been working on for the past three years, scheduled to open in theaters during the Christmas holiday (1977).
1980-04-14, ABC, min.
- Ann-Margret
- Ann Miller
- Gene Kelly
- Kirk Douglas
- Jack Lemmon
- Mickey Rooney
- Walter Matthau
- Sally Field
- Rod Steiger
- Dustin Hoffman
- Johnny Carson
- Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
- Dionne Warwick
- William Shatner
- Dolly Parton
- Donald OConnor
- Jane Fonda
- Helen Reddy
- Cloris Leachman
- Charlton Heston
- Goldie Hawn
- Ben Vereen
- Liza Minnelli
- Olivia Newton-John
- Telly Savalas
- Christopher Reeve
- Richard Dreyfuss
- Jack Valenti
- Lauren Hutton
- Melvyn Douglas
- Meryl Streep
- Dudley Moore
- Melissa Manchester
- Henry Mancini
- Neil Simon
- Steven Spielberg
- Bo Derek
- Jamie Lee Curtis
- George Hamilton
- Sally Kellerman
- Richard Gere
- Farrah Fawcett
- Kristy McNichol
- Patrick Wayne
- Hank Simms
The 52nd annual Academy Awards ceremony from the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California. Host: Johnny Carson. Announcer: Hank Simms Kramer vs. Kramer won for best picture Dustin Hoffman: Best Actor Sally Field: Best Actress Melvyn Douglas: Best Supporting Actor Meryl Streep: Best Supporting Actress
1980-04-14, ABC, min.
- Ann-Margret
- Ann Miller
- Gene Kelly
- Kirk Douglas
- Jack Lemmon
- Mickey Rooney
- Walter Matthau
- Sally Field
- Rod Steiger
- Dustin Hoffman
- Johnny Carson
- Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
- Dionne Warwick
- William Shatner
- Dolly Parton
- Donald OConnor
- Jane Fonda
- Helen Reddy
- Cloris Leachman
- Charlton Heston
- Goldie Hawn
- Ben Vereen
- Liza Minnelli
- Olivia Newton-John
- Telly Savalas
- Christopher Reeve
- Richard Dreyfuss
- Jack Valenti
- Lauren Hutton
- Melvyn Douglas
- Meryl Streep
- Dudley Moore
- Melissa Manchester
- Henry Mancini
- Neil Simon
- Steven Spielberg
- Bo Derek
- Jamie Lee Curtis
- George Hamilton
- Sally Kellerman
- Richard Gere
- Farrah Fawcett
- Kristy McNichol
- Patrick Wayne
- Hank Simms
The 52nd annual Academy Awards ceremony from the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California. Host: Johnny Carson. Announcer: Hank Simms Kramer vs. Kramer won for best picture Dustin Hoffman: Best Actor Sally Field: Best Actress Melvyn Douglas: Best Supporting Actor Meryl Streep: Best Supporting Actress Duplicate of #18446.