Our ancestors in old documentary movies

Piotr Zelny — Thu Apr 02, 2020 5:49 am

Author: Piotr Zelny

Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2020 5:49 am

From the end of the 19th c. till 1939 Polish cinematography produced many short documentary movies. Some of them were to record improtent historical events while others to show just everyday life in particular regions. At the beginning such production was called the living photography. So it'd fit into this place of forum. I hope it may interest you, aspecially the living photography of everyday life of our ancestors.

Some of the movies are available to see on the web of digital repository
http://www.repozytorium.fn.org.pl/?q=pl/search/doc/&fnadvanced=1&is_year=%5B%2A%20TO%201939%5D

I past the links to few of them from interwar provinces of Krakow, Lwow and Stanislawow, that is terrains of former Galicia.

Highlanders (Zakopane and vicinity, former western Galicia)
http://www.repozytorium.fn.org.pl/?q=pl/node/10122

Piligrims to Kalwaria Zebrzydowska (former western Galicia)
http://www.repozytorium.fn.org.pl/?q=pl/node/10030

Sanok land (Sanok, Krosno, Biecz and vicinity, former central Galicia)
http://www.repozytorium.fn.org.pl/?q=pl/node/10128

Eastern Carpathians (The Hutsuls region, Kolomyja, former eastern Galicia)
http://www.repozytorium.fn.org.pl/?q=pl/node/10076

Podole (Zaleszczyki, the valley of Dniestr river, former eastern Galicia)
http://www.repozytorium.fn.org.pl/?q=pl/node/10908

Best regards
Piotrek

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Our ancestors in old documentary movies