Journal of Film Preservation - FIAF

En décembre 1998, une vaste rétrospective
consacrée à l’apport des réfugiés et émigrés
germanophones au Cinéma Israélien fut
organisée par le Steven Spielberg Jewish Film
Archive sous le titre Not to Hollywood.
L’événement coïncida avec la parution d’un
numéro spécial Palestine/Israel du périodique
de la Deutsche Kinemathek FilmExil. Le
programme fut mis sur pied avec la
collaboration du Goethe-Institut de
Jerusalem.
Una amplia retrospectiva fue dedicada por el
Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive a la
influencia de los refugiados y emigrados de
habla germana al cine israelí, bajo el título
Not to Hollywood, en diciembre de 1998.
El evento coincidió con la aparición de un
número especial Palestina/Israel del
periódico de la Stiftung Deutsche
Kinemathek FilmExil. Colaboró en la
organización de este programa el Goethe-
Institut de Jerusalén.
Ljubljana
screened, and Rolf Kneller, one of
Lerski’s assistants from 1939 to 1941,
reminisced and answered questions.
Kneller, who himself went on to become
a notable cinematographer, also
participated in a panel discussion with
the film emigres themselves. Miriam
Spielman represented both her
husband, Zvi Spielman of Israfilm, and
her late mother, Margot Klausner. Helga
Cranston Keller described her
emigration to England, where she
worked as an editor for, among others,
Olivier and Preminger, before becoming
one of the most prominent in her field
in Israel. The session also elicited lively
debate on the art and technique of
filmmaking. The Jerusalem event ended
with a concentrated screening
programme featuring works by the panel
participants, which was extremely wellattended.
An abridged version of Not to Hollywood was also held at the Tel Aviv
Cinematheque. Veteran assistant director, cameraman and production
manager Jacob Marx was in the audience to view some of his work,
including the 1949 Victor Vicas film 48 Hours a Day. Also onscreen as
well as in the audience was a former medical orderly at the Neveh Ilan
settlement in the Jerusalem Corridor. Filmed in a re-enactment of her
real-life activities, she had been invited to the film’s premiere, but had
been on duty at the time and had spent forty-nine years waiting for an
opportunity to see it.
An English-language publication is planned that will combine relevant
articles from the special and previous editions of FilmExil, excerpts from
the conference proceedings and source documents to provide a
springboard for more structured research. New and supplementary
information has already come to the Spielberg Archive in the wake of
press reports on the event. The Archive staff would welcome further
leads from their other colleagues abroad.
The Slovene Film Archive
Alojzij Tersan
The beginnings of Slovene film activity date from the year 1905 when
Dr. Karol Grossmann shot the first meters of film material in Ljutomer.
In the following decades Slovene film production was relatively modest
in spite of several promising attempts. There were individuals who had
their own film companies. We should mention Velin Bester and Metod
80 Journal of Film Preservation / 58/59 / 1999
A portrait of Dr. Paul Loewy’s puppet that
represented the Biblical figure of Balaam in
the film Out of Evil, a sequence of which
was screened as part of the Spielberg
Archive’s salute to the Israeli film industry’s
German-speaking contributors. (Courtesy
Central Zionist Archives)