Leo Hurwitz & Peggy Lawson – The Museum and the Fury (1956)

This is a rather remarkable documentary made by left-wing filmmaker Leo Hurwitz and his wife, Peggy Lawson. This copy was made available on the Eastman Museum website.

Here’s how Hurwitz’s official website describes the film:
The result of a commission from Film Polski, the Polish Film Production Agency, to make a film on the concentration camps, The Museum and the Fury was made with access to the Film Polski archive, out of which Hurwitz integrated wartime footage with images of the reconstruction of Poland and various works of art. Centering on the museum of the concentration camps at Auschwitz, it begins as a historical survey exploring the function of a museum, establishing the kinship of all art, and stating that “art is man’s way of remembering his experience.” Along with the use of archival actuality and enacted footage, Hurwitz used the technique of photo-animation — a moving camera over still images, now used in many films — for the first time in the U.S. This study of war, art, memory and genocide is one of Hurwitz’s most concise and powerful films.

hurwitz_museum_and_the_fury.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	52 min 2 s
Size: 	234 MiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	454x360 
Aspect ratio:  	5:4
Frame rate: 	29.970 fps
Bit rate: 	500 kb/s
BPP: 	0.102
Audio
#1:  	2.0ch AAC LC @ 128 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/4C29B8F70F6D26B/hurwitz_museum_and_the_fury.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:none