Le Clan des Siciliens / The Sicilian Clan

Le Clan des Siciliens. Alain Delon (Roger Sartet), Jean Gabin (Vittorio Manalese), Lino Ventura (inspector Le Goff).

Sisilialaisklaani / Sicilianska klanen. FR © 1968 Les Productions Fox Europa, Les Films du Siècle. P: Jacques-Eric Strauss. D: Henri Verneuil. SC: Verneuil, José Giovanni, Pierre Pelegir – based on the novel by Auguste Le Breton (1967). DP: Henri Decaë – Panavision – Eastmancolor. PD: Jacques Saulnier. COST: Hélène Nourry. M: Ennio Morricone. ED: Pierre Gillette.
    Starring: Jean Gabin (Vittorio Manalese), Alain Delon (Roger Sartet), Lino Ventura (inspector Le Goff), Irina Demick (Jeanne Manalese), Amedeo Nazzari (Tony Nicosia), Sydney Chaplin (pilot). 124'.
    A vintage 35 mm print with fine definition of colour and Swedish subtitles by Olle Ekelund.
    Viewed at Orion, Helsinki, 31 May 2005.

Henri Verneuil and his trusted star team (Gabin, Delon, Ventura) at their best. It's a big caper story where the Sicilian family located in Paris plans an ingenious heist of the top secure jewelry collection at Rome's Villa Borghese to be transported to New York. They hijack the plane to a highway construction site as all NYPD are waiting for them at La Guardia. The weakness of Delon for women in general and the voluptuous charms of Irina Demick in particular does for them what the united police forces of France, Italy and the USA cannot. Designer Saulnier and cinematographer Decaë are at the top of their game. There's an elegant confidence and a sure sense of timing in Verneuil's touch right from the beginning as Delon's flight from the police prison car is detailed. There is a master of mise-en-scène to be discovered in Verneuil's best films. Yes, the crooks are impossibly glorified. Gabin to Ventura: "On y va". To his grandson: "Pas ce soir".

Tarzan, the Ape Man (1932)

Tarzan, the Ape Man (1932). Maureen O'Sullivan (Jane Parker), Johnny Weissmuller (Tarzan).

Tarzan, viidakon valtias / Tarzan, djungelns konung. US © 1932 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. P: Bernard Hyman. D: W. S. Van Dyke. SC: Cyril Hume – dialogue: Ivor Novello – based on the characters by Edgar Rice Burroughs. DP: Harold Rosson, Clyde De Vinna. PD: Cedric Gibbons. ED: Ben Lewis, Tom Held. Sound: Douglas Shearer. Wrangler: Bert Nelson.
    Starring: Johnny Weissmuller (Tarzan), Maureen O'Sullivan (Jane Parker), C. Aubrey Smith (James Parker), Neil Hamilton (Harry Holt). 99'.
    An intact, somewhat duped, 35 mm print with Finnish / Swedish subtitles.
    Viewed at Orion, Helsinki, 29 May, 2005, at the family viewing performance.

I intended to check the start only, but the film is so gripping, I stayed till the end. It still is an excellent jungle fantasy. Everything borders on the caricature, but it works, as there is a sense of wonder all through the picture. For the child, it's an exciting adventure (it's not for the very youngest, as the climax in the giant gorilla pit is quite grim); for the grown-up it's a vision of the Garden of Eden where Tarzan and Jane rediscover what Adam and Eve did. Yes, the blacks are depicted with racism, but also the whites are caricatured as greedy, whip-wielding, insensitive "civilized savages" who do not understand the jungle. They find the elephants' burial ground in the end, and there Jane's father finds his final place to rest. There is a sense of nobility in Tarzan's mutual help network of the jungle, and there is grandeur in the final view as Jane decides to stay with Tarzan, and the sole surviving white ivory-hunter is seen leaving empty-handed.

Eichmann und das dritte Reich / Eichmann and the Third Reich

Erwin Leiser: Eichmann und das dritte Reich / Eichmann and the Third Reich (CH 1961). Adolf Eichmann (1906–1962), a former Schutzstaffel Obersturmbannführer, is the man in the glass booth, sentenced to death at the Jerusalem District Court, Beit Ha'am, 11–15 December 1961.

Eichmann ja kolmas valtakunta / Eichmann och det tredje riket.
     CH 1961. PC: Praesens Film AG (Zürich). P: Lazar Wechsler, in association with Artur Brauner.
    D+SC: Erwin Leiser, in association with Miriam Novitich. DP of new footage: Emil Berna. ED: Hans Heinrich Egger. Original length (Filmportal) 2460 m / 90 min. Finland: 2290 m / 84 min

    Swiss premiere: 25 May 1961.    

    Helsinki premiere: 26 May 1961 Corona, Savoy, Tuulensuu – distributed by Columbia Films Oy Ab.

    Austrian premiere: 2 June 1961.

    A vintage 35 mm print, compilation quality with good definition in the new footage, with Finnish / Swedish subtitles by Aito Mäkinen / Bengt Pihlström.
    Viewed at Orion, 26 May 2005.

Still an exceptional Holocaust movie focusing on one Nazi criminal. It starts in a Jewish cemetery to the sound of a Kaddish. We hear Hitler shouting that the day will come when the ten commandments, the curse of Sinai, will be replaced by the law of nature. The curse of so-called morality will perish in the immortal battle of the survival of the fittest.

Cut to Jerusalem in 1961: video images of Adolf Eichmann's trial. His career is tracked down from 1933 to the present. The antisemitic propaganda of the Third Reich is documented in great detail. The Nazi euthanasia program is documented. Eichmann's role in Austria after the Anschluss, in Czechoslovakia, and in occupied Poland is examined. He was the "Referent der Judenfrage", the expert of the Jewish question in the Gestapo.

Leiser handles with care the antisemitic Nazi propaganda imagery, the real story in the looks of the victims forced to pose for their tormentors. A great deal of the footage is little known even now; the images are both shocking and surprising. New footage includes bland video images from the Eichmann trial and good interviews with three survivors, from the Warsaw Ghetto Yitzhak Zuckermann and Zibia Lubetki, and from Treblinka, Jakov Wiernik.

To the end, Eichmann denies having been more than a little civil servant following the Führerbefehl. He could not even bear the sight of blood, he "had not the makings of a doctor". He was a new kind of murderer, one that kills by signature, an instance of transference of guilt on a world-historical scale. The film would deserve to be better known. Essential in the debate on Holocaust deniers, Holocaust evidence and Hitler's orders. He shouts his aim here loud and clear.

La notte di San Lorenzo / The Night of the Shooting Stars

Tähtikirkas yö / Stjärnklar natt . IT 1981. PC: RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana, Ager Cinematografica. P: Giuliani G. De Negri. D+SC: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani. DP (1,66, colour, Agfa): Franci Di Giacomo. PD: Gianni Sbarra. M: Nicola Piovani; Verdi: Requiem; Wagner: "O du mein holder Abendstern". ED: Roberto Perpignani. Location: Tuscany.
    CAST: Omero Antonutti (Galvano Galvani), Margarita Lozano (Concetta), Claudio Bigagli (Corrado), Massimo Bonetti (Nicola), Norma Martelli (Ivana). 108'.
    A vintage 35 mm print, mediocre definition, with Finnish / Swedish subtitles by Eija Pokkinen / Maya Vanni.
    Viewed at Orion, 26 May 2005.

During the retreat of the Germans in WWII the inhabitants of the Italian town San Martino flee during the night fearing a retribution which does indeed occur, during a service in the church, of all places. This is the story of the flight of a group of people of all ages. On a field they meet the partisans and join them, having to change names in the process. The story culminates in the final battle with the Fascists, where former friends slay each other. The news of liberation are received in pouring rain. There are several dimensions in this historical epic: it is a study of society in extreme transformation; strangers become bedfellows, friends become mortal enemies. History blends with legends from the Classical Age as all is seen through the memory of a six year old girl who now tells a bedtime story to her own little daughter. The famous image of the Fascist impaled by a dozen spears is a fantasy of the little girl.

Yhden miehen sota traileri

One Man's War trailer. FI 1973. PC: Filminor. D: Risto Jarva. 3'. A brilliant 35mm print. Viewed at Orion, Helsinki, 25 May 2005. Trailer to the film of the quixotic enterprise of Erik Suomies and his earth mover on the construction sites of Finland.

Finlandia Katsaus 680 / [Finlandia Journal 680]

Finlandia Katsaus 680. The coffin of jääkäri Unto-Pekka Matikainen, who died in the service of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP), is conveyed via air from Cyprus to Finland. My screenshot from Elonet: Finlandia Katsaus 680.

 

Finlandia Journal 680. FI 1964. 1. Betacam, alas. Viewed at Orion, Helsinki, 25 May 2005. The coffin of Unto-Pekka Matikainen, the first Finn to die in the line of duty in the United Nations peace corps.

Finlandia Katsaus / Finlandia Journal 678 (1964)

Finlandia Katsaus / Finlandia Journal 678 (FI 1964). The first group of soldiers of the Finnish UN battalion leaving for Cyprus on a Hercules transport aeroplane of the U.S. Air Force at the end of April 1964. Old porcelain exhibited at Kunsthalle Helsinki. Flea market at the Ateneum Art Museum. Exhibition of the Work Efficiency Institute at the Exhibition Hall in Helsinki. Annual exhibition of the Finnish Association of Camera Clubs. Päijänne motorcycle race. Exploding bananas: acetylene gas explosion in a banana ripening room in Helsinki.

Finlandia Journal 678. FI 1964. 1'. Betacam, alas. Viewed at Orion, Helsinki, 25 May 2005. The Finnish UN Battalion arrives in Cyprus on a Hercules plane.

Tulilahden murhenäytelmä / The Tragedy of Tulilahti

Tulilahden murhenäytelmä / The Tragedy of Tulilahti (FI 1959). A Suomen Filmiteollisuus newsreel also available at Yle Areena. The visual quality of the 35 mm print is superior to this photograph.

FI 1959. PC: Suomen Filmiteollisuus. SC: Arno Carlstedt, Niilo Ihamäki. DP: Olavi Tuomi, Veikko Mård. Narrator: Ihamäki. 11'. A fine 35 mm print. Viewed at Orion, Helsinki, 25 May 2005. The gruesome double murder of two girls from Jyväskylä in Tulilahti in August 1959 was never solved. The meticulous investigation processes are documented here as is the funeral which was an event for national mourning. There is a detailed content protocol of the newsreel at Elonet.

Finlandia-katsaus 498

Finlandia-katsaus 498 (FI 1961). An American airplane has crashed in the center of Munich, killing 50. My screenshot from / see movie at: Elonet: Finlandia-katsaus 498.

[Finlandia Journal 498]. FI 1961. PC: Suomi-Filmi. 3'. Betacam, alas. Viewed at Orion, Helsinki, 25 May 2005. The first big aviation disaster in Finland on 3 January 1961 in Koivulahti with 25 casualties.

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Valmistumisvuosi  1961

Tuotanto  Suomi-Filmi Oy 

Maa  Suomi

Laji  katsaus

Kesto  7 min

Genre  ajankohtaisdokumentti

Nukkenäyttelyssä Kansallismuseossa mm. vanhoja saksalaisia nukkeja ja nukkekoteja, vanhin suomalainen nukke on 1400-luvulta. Uusi lepo armeijassa, sotilaat näyttävät miten lepo tehdään katselmuksessa uusien ohjeiden mukaan. Pienoisrautatienäyttely Stockmannilla. Presidentti Kennedy hakee vaimonsa Jacquelinen ja heidän vastasyntyneen vauvansa sairaalasta. Jätkäsaaren suurta satamalaituria rakennetaan. Münchenin lento-onnettomuus, 50 kuoli amerikkalaisen koneen pudottua raitiovaunun päälle. Koivulahden lento-onnettomuus, tässä Suomen ilmailun ensimmäisessä suuronnettomuudessa kuoli 25 ihmistä.

Esiintyjät

John Kennedy 

Jacqueline Kennedy 

Tekijät

Olavi Puusaari käsikirjoitus

Väinö Kolhonen kuvaus

Reijo Lås kuvaus

Eero Sinikannel leikkaus

Olavi Puusaari selostus

Tuotantotiedot

Tuotanto  Suomi-Filmi Oy Tuottaja

Kuvauspaikat

Ulkokuvat

Helsinki, Jätkäsaari. Washington. Saksa, München. Koivulahti.

Sisäkuvat

Helsinki, Kansallismuseo.

Sisältöseloste

Helsinki, vanhoja saksalaisia, ranskalaisia ja suomalaisia nukkeja ja nukkekodin kalusteita näyttelyssä Kansallismuseossa, näyttelyn nimi on Isoäidin nukke ja vaarin puuhevonen. Nukkekodin sisustuksia, huonekaluja, vaatteita, astioita. Vanhin suomalainen nukke on 1400-luvulta, vain savesta tehty pää on säilynyt. Tanssivat nuket. Nukke istuu katetussa pöydässä, jossa on ruokaa. Norsunluusta sorvattuja leikkikaluja, peilipöytä, cembalo, rukki. Sotilaat näyttävät miten katselmuksessa nykyään viedään kivääri ryhdikkäästi vartalon eteen eikä olalle. Uusi lepo: vasenta jalkaa ei viedä etuviistoon vaan otetaan kevyt haara-asento. Helsinki, juuri perustetun Junakerhon avajais- ja esittelytilaisuus Stockmannilla, pojat katsovat pienoisrautatietä. VR:n pääjohtaja Aalto pitää puheen. Pojat, pukumiehet ja nainen tutustuvat näyttelyyn, jossa pienoisrautateiden lisäksi Rautatiemuseon esineistöä. Washington, presidentti John F. Kennedy työntää vaimoaan Jacquelinea pyörätuolissa sairaalan käytävällä, sairaanhoitaja kantaa vauvaa. Lastenhoitaja kantaa vauvan autoon. Presidenttipari menee autoon. Helsinki, Jätkäsaaressa rakennetaan suurta satamalaituria, johon myöhemmin tulee satamarata. Selostaja kertoo New Yorkissa äskettäin tapahtuneesta ilmailuhistorian pahimmasta lento-onnettomuudesta, jossa kaksi matkustakonetta törmäsi toisiinsa. Münchenin keskustassa raivataan suuren lento-onnettomuuden jälkiä, amerikkalainen kone syöksyi keskustaan pudoten raitiovaunun päälle, 50 kuoli. Lehtiotsikko 25 kuoli matkustajakone putosi Vaasassa. Helsinki, ihmiset lukevat näyteikkunassa olevia Uusi Suomi -lehden Päivän uutisia. Lehtiä ostetaan, väentungosta Mannerheimintien jalkakäytävällä. Vaasa, Koivulahdella noin 15 kilometrin päässä Vaasan lentokentästä 3.1.1961 maahan syöksyeen Aeron DC-3 -koneen jäännökset metsässä. Jäljet pellolla. Konetta tutkitaan. Suruliputusta Helsingissä, Pohjoisesplanadi, Mannerheimintie, Sokos, Postitalo, Eduskuntatalo.

Musiikki

"Pinocchio March" (säv. Julius Steffaro)

"Dreamy River" (Eric Sepp)

"Lazy Rhythm" (O. Armstrong)

"High Treason" (Howitt Hale)

"Hurly Burly" (John Bath)

"Progress" (Kenneth Essex)

"By Cart" (säv. Julien Porret)

VET

10619

05.01.1961

35 mm

Veroluokka  VA 3

Ikäraja  S

Tarkastamolaji

5 Dokumentti

Tekniset tiedot

mv

ääni

1,37:1

7 min

Kuurilan junaonnettomuus

Photo not from the newsreel. An aerial photograph of the Kuurila train disaster on 15 March 1957. Source: http://www.jukkajoutsi.com/aihe21.jpg . From: Wikipedia: Kuurilan junaturma. Public domain.

The Kuurila Train Disaster. FI 1957. PC: Suomi-Filmi. 2'. A beautiful 35 mm print. Viewed at Orion, Helsinki, 25 May 2005. The worst after-war train disaster in Finland on 15 March 1957 with 26 left dead and 48 injured. The newsreel was ready for screening the next day.

Sinä olet Punainen Risti

You Are the Red Cross. FI 1957. PC: Suomi-Filmi. D: Harry Lewing. SC: Gunnar Rosén. 11'. A good 35mm print. Viewed at Orion, Helsinki, 25 May 2005. The 80th anniversary of the Finnish Red Cross is an ambitious and fascinating chronicle covering all aspects of the organization's activity, currently also helping Hungarian refugees in Austria.

Risto Rytin viimeinen matka

The Last Journey of Risto Ryti. FI 1956. P: Olle Åkerblom. DP: Åkerblom, Antero Rautio. Narrator: Martti Silvennoinen. A 35mm print with good definition. Viewed at Orion, Helsinki, 25 May 2005. The burial of the wartime President of Finland (1940-1944) was a major national event.

Finlandia Katsaus 290

Finlandia Katsaus 290. FI 1956. PC: Suomi-Filmi. DP: Niilo Heino. Narrator: Hugo Ahlberg. 8'. A 35mm print with good definition. Viewed at Orion, Helsinki, 25 May 2005. The 1956 general strike in Finland: many exciting views and situations, including violent long shots of the "gasoline war" where the mounted police rides into a crowd of people.

Finlandia-katsaus 389

Finlandia Journal 389 (FI 1958). Traffic stops in the Helsinki city centre for the funeral procession of police officer Kauko Kautto killed in the line of duty while trying to capture a criminal. My screenshot / view movie at Elonet: Finlandia-katsaus 389.

[Finlandia Journal 389]. FI 1958. PC: Suomi-Filmi. D: Kari Uusitalo. 2'. Betacam, alas. Viewed at Orion, Helsinki, 25 May 2005. The newsreel on the murder of the policeman Kautto with interesting footage on the extensive searches.

Finlandia Katsaus 252

Finlandia-katsaus 252 (FI 1954). The funeral of the nine children who died in the fire of the Kangasala kindergarten. My screenshot from Elonet.

Finlandia Journal 252. FI 1954. PC: Suomi-Filmi. 2 min. Betacam, alas. Viewed at Orion, Helsinki, 25 May 2005. The fire of the Kangasala kindergarten claimed nine casualties of children under seven.

Finlandia-katsaus 220

Finlandia-katsaus 220 (FI 1953). Isojoki, October 1953. After a long and difficult search, the remains of Kyllikki Saari were found hidden in a bog. My screenshot from / view newsreel at Elonet: Finlandia-katsaus 220.

Finlandia-katsaus 220 (FI 1953). Isojoki, October 1953. Life goes on at the homestead of Kyllikki Saari. My screenshot from / view newsreel at Elonet: Finlandia-katsaus 220.

Finlandia-katsaus 220 (FI 1953). Isojoki, October 1953. Kyllikki Saari's room, now a memorial. My screenshot from / view newsreel at Elonet: Finlandia-katsaus 220.

Finlandia-katsaus 220 (FI 1953). Isojoki, 25 October 1953. Kyllikki Saari's burial at the family grave at Isojoki Church. My screenshot from / view newsreel at Elonet: Finlandia-katsaus 220.

[Finlandia Journal 220]. FI 1953. PC: Suomi-Filmi. Narrator: Yrjö Haapanen. Soundtrack includes "Ombra mai fu" (1738, Largo from Serse) by G. F. Händel and "Narva March" (1700, played at the Battle of Narva during the Great Northern War as King Charles XII advanced towards the city of Narva). 9'. A 35 mm print with good definition. Viewed at Orion, Helsinki, 25 May 2005. A dignified and memorable newsreel on the most notorious homicide in the history of Finland, the murder of Kyllikki Saari (1935–1953) on 17 May 1953. Her remains were found hidden in a bog on 11 Oct 1953. The murder shook the nation and remains unresolved. The funeral service at the Isojoki Church was attended by 25.000 visitors.

Haikara ei sinua tuonut / The Stork Didn't Bring You

The American book cover of: Lois Pemberton: The Stork Didn't Bring You: Sex Education for Teenagers (1948). In 1952, Veikko Laihanen and Ralf Rubin made a promotion film of its Finnish edition.

FI 1952. PC: Rubin & Co. D: Ralf Rubin. 1'. Betacam, alas. Viewed at Orion, Helsinki, 25 May 2005. The author Jussi Talvi and the film producer Veikko Laihanen promote the Finnish edition of Lois Pemberton's book of sex education for the young.

Lipeälapset / [Lye Children]

Matti Kassila: Lipeälapset / [Lye Children] (FI 1949). Photo from Yle Areena. View Lipeälapset on Yle Areena.

FI 1949. PC: Suomen Filmiteollisuus. D: Matti Kassila. DP: Sulo Tammilehto. 11'. A vintage 35 mm nitrate print with beautiful definition. Viewed at Orion, Helsinki, 25 May 2005. Kassila's first short. A powerful medical and public service film with live action scenes, actual medical footage, and animation. A memorable warning about the danger of sodium hydroxine (then often used in soap) especially for children. Also a fine example of nitrate's silver glow.

Finlandia Katsaus 111

Finlandia Katsaus 111 (FI 1949). "The Bloody Thursday" on 18 August, 1949, is one of the topics. After the government announced 30% wage cuts for Kemi Oy's lumber workers, they, together with lumberjacks, sawmill employees and dockers of the Port of Kemi, went on strike. The police was summoned. In the battle between the strikers and the police, two strikers died. My screenshot from Elonet.

Finlandia Journal 111. FI 1949. 1'. Betacam, alas. Viewed at Orion, Helsinki, 25 May 2005. The "Bloody Thursday" of Kemi between the strikers and the police led to the death of two workers.

Filmiseppo-Katsaus 24

Photo not from the movie. Workers strike against pay cuts in Kemi on Thursday, 18 Aug 1949. The last political action in Finland with human casualties.

Filmiseppo Journal 24. FI 1949. 2'. Betacam, alas. Viewed at Orion, Helsinki, 25 May 2005. Logs are filling the river: the strike in the northern city of Kemi gets dangerous.

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Elonet: Sisältöseloste 

"Sulkava, Suomen Partiopoikajärjestön Partio-Opisto, jossa koulutetaan partiojohtajia. Nuoret miehet kiipeilevät köysistä tehdyllä "apinasillalla", mukana englantilaisia partiolaisia. Lentopallon peluuta. Hollantilainen partiojohtaja soutaa. Leirin suomalaiset ja englantilaiset johtajat. Näkövammainen partiolainen opaskoirineen. Veljespiiri. Valtava määrä tukkeja on kasaantunut Kemijokeen Kemiyhtiön työläisten mentyä lakkoon. Kemi, katukuvaa, pyöräilijöitä. Työväentalo. Paljon väkeä ulkona. Mielenosoituskulkue, mukana lapsia, kylteissä lukee mm. Kemiyhtiö on otettava valtion haltuun! Kemin voimalaitostyömaa on keskeyttänyt lohen nousun Kemijokea ylös, siiankalastajat siirtävät kalastusyhdistyksen pyynnöstä kiinni saamansa lohet yksitellen säkissä yläjuoksulle. Siikaa kalastetaan haavilla. Ranska, kunniamerkkejä jaetaan sodassa ja vastarintaliikkeessä ansioituneille miehille ja naisille. Pariisi, säärien kauneuskilpailut kabareessa, silmät peittävään naamioon ja lyhyeen viittaan pukeutuneet kilpailijat esittäytyvät orkesterin soittaessa, mies arvostelee. Iloinen voittaja. Pukumies esittelee säärtään naisille maljoja juotaessa."