State Theatre to Air 'Haunting' Nuremberg Documentary Aug. 2
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One of the original posters from the 1948 German release of the Nuremberg documentary.
U.S. Army Signal Corps cameramen film the Nuremberg trials in 1945.
Local veterans and veterans' groups will benefit from the showing of a documentary film here Aug. 2 at the State Theatre.
Some of the veterans who will view the film actually experienced events at the Nuremberg Trials in Germany in 1945.
"Nuremberg: It's Lesson for Today," will be introduced in Bay City by restoration producer Sandra Schulberg, daughter of Hollywood filmmaker the late Stuart Schulberg, who produced the film.
Moviegoers will get a chance to ask questions of Ms. Schulberg after the airing of the 78 minute documentary.
Donations are being accepted from the community and business sponsors to purchase $5 tickets to be distributed to needy veterans. Any excess funds after expenses will be distributed to the Bay County Veterans Council.
The movie is a 35mm restoration of a film originally created by Sandra Schulberg's father, Stuart Schulberg. One of the greatest courtroom dramas in history, "Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today" shows how the international prosecutors built their case against the top Nazi war criminals using the Nazis own films and records.
"Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today" depicts the most famous courtroom drama in modern times, and the first to make extensive use of film as evidence. It was also the first trial to be extensively documented, aurally and visually. All of the proceedings, which lasted for nearly 11 months, were recorded.
And though the trial was filmed while it was happening, strict limits were placed on the Army Signal Corps cameramen by the Office of Criminal Counsel. In the end, they were permitted to film only about 25 hours over the entire course of the trial. This was to prove a great impediment for writer/director Stuart Schulberg, and his editor Joseph Zigman, when they were engaged to make the official film about the trial, in 1946, shortly after its conclusion.
"Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today" follows the structure of the trial, using the four counts of the indictment as its organizing principle. While much of the film is set in the courtroom, Nuremberg reconstructs the prosecution's case and rebuts the defendants' assertions by relying on the Nazis' own films. Nuremberg therefore cuts back and forth to these films.
The trial established the "Nuremberg Principles," laying the foundation for all subsequent trials for crimes against the peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.
This is the official U.S. government film about the trial, made for the War Department & U.S. Military Government by Stuart Schulberg, a veteran of noted producer John Ford's OSS War Crimes film team.
The New York Times calls "Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today," "HAUNTING AND VIVID. What this documentary shows is how a vital and indispensable principle of humanity was restored." The film is not rated but contains some disturbing images of the Holocaust, and has a run-time of 78 minutes. Its official website, www.nurembergfilm.org, contains background information on the making of the film, photos, reviews and more.
Donations for tickets for veterans may be sent to the non-profit State Theatre, 913 Washington Ave., Bay City, MI 48708. Information is available by telephone at 892-2660 or 686-5544. ###
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