Israel Movie Night
Monday, December 19, 7:00 PM

"Television Under the Swastika" (1999)
55 minutes

Uncovered footage, long buried in East German archives, reveals that television's first revolution was carried out under the Third Reich. From 1935 to 1944, Berlin studios churned out the world's first regular TV programming, replete with the evening news, street interviews, sports coverage, "racial programs," and interviews with Nazi officials. German technicians achieved remarkable breakthroughs in televising live events, including near instantaneous broadcasts of the 1936 Olympic Games. What remains is a remarkable trove of surviving footage, offering an intriguing new window onto the Third Reich. "Television Under the Swastika," drawing liberally from this footage, opens up a surprising chapter in media history.
 

"Night and Fog" (1955)
32 minutes

Ten years after the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, filmmaker Alain Resnais documented the abandoned grounds of Auschwitz and Majdanek in "Night and Fog," one of the first cinematic reflections on the Holocaust. Juxtaposing the stillness of the abandoned camps’ empty buildings with haunting wartime footage, Resnais investigates humanity’s capacity for violence, and presents the devastating suggestion that such horrors could occur again.
 

Sponsored by the Israel Committee.
Pizza, pop, popcorn, and chips will be served.