Film Footage of Anne Frank

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The only existing film images of Anne Frank have been loaded on to YouTube by Amsterdam museum the Anne Frank House.

The footage, from 1941, is the only time Anne has been captured on film. The 20-second footage uploaded to the museum's recently launched Anne Frank Channel shows Anne's neighbour on her wedding day. A 13-year-old Anne is seen nine seconds into the video, leaning out of a second-floor window to get a better look at the bride and groom. At the time of the wedding the bride-to-be lived at No 37 Merwedeplein, next door to the Franks at No 39.

The scene was filmed on 22 July 1941, just under a year before the Frank family went into hiding above the family business. The family were discovered in August 1944 and Anne died in a Nazi concentration camp in March 1945.

A shorter, five-second version of the video was given to Otto Frank, Anne's father, by the married couple in the 1950s. After Anne's published diary became widely known in the 1950s the couple recognised her in the film and contacted Otto.

Annemarie Bekker, from the Anne Frank House, said using YouTube was a way to introduce the life of Anne Frank to people who may never have heard of her diaries.

"The footage is very moving and very unique because these are the only moving images of Anne Frank," Bekker said.

"The museum has had the footage for some time, but thought YouTube would be a good platform to show the film and the other films about her life. It's another way to bring the life of Anne Frank to the attention of younger people, and all people worldwide."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oct/02/anne-frank-video-release-youtube

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I saw this earlier today. It's so surreal to watch in a way. Anne Frank has become such a symbol in our culture and yet there she is, happy and bouncing around just like a girl her age would be. It brings the whole story down to earth.

BTW, someone pointed out to me that the girl on the bicycle could be Margot, Anne's sister. They look pretty similar.

EDIT: Oops I meant the girl who is standing behind the couple as they come down the stairs. I think she's holding on to a bicycle.
 
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It really is. Damn, this just makes me feel depressed all over again. :(
 
It's sad but it's an important part of history and she should be remembered.
 
tks for sharing your experience here. It's quite well if some illustrations were following here.
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Anne Frank? That chick who was all like duhhhh, till the miracle worker showed up and knocked some smarts into her?
 
Wow, it's just so ... surreal seeing her on film.
Wish we had more films of her but no one at that time would know she would be so famous.
 
In Kel's defense, Ace has previously been confused as to the origins of the Whistler's Mother painting, and Clerks sucked. :o

The original comment was in quotation marks, so it's not the same situation :oldrazz:

Also, you have no sense of humor
 
How we managed to get from a topic of one of history's most notable icons to Clerks I'll not soon know.


Also Clerks was awesome, how could you miss it's sardonic and hip humor? It was an excellent movie, but I hope it feels so good to be right. There's nothing more exhilarating than pointing out the shortcomings of others, is there?
 
Two words written by Frank are better than anything Smith would ever come up with.
 
Oh c'mon. The whole scene where Randall takes the piss out of Lord of the Rings is sheer unadulterated genius.

But yes Anne Frank is an icon and her struggle is a inspiration to everyone [/politically correct]
 
Sorry, I found Clerks to be so utterly boring that I couldn't keep watching it, maybe it gets better towards the end, but it just wasn't funny in the slightest.
 
What about Clerks 2? That's where that Anne Frank comment and the piss take of Lord of the Rings came from
 
Why would I want to watch the sequel if the first bored the hell out of me? I don't like the two main characters of it, and not even the addition of color would entice me to watch it.

Also, not to downplay the horrible nature of the Holocaust, how is Anne Frank an "inspiration"? Sure, her diary did give the rest of the world an insight into what happened during that time period, but she's no more of an inspiration than any of the other possibly thousands of Jews that went into hiding to avoid the Nazis.
 
She's an inspiration because she showed that despite the utterly horrendous situation she was in, the human spirit and will is a very powerful thing.

Well it's not just her that is the inspiration. She is just like the figure head of the jews whole ordeal. They all were inspirations.
 

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