Cologne: From the Diary of Ray and Esther (1939)

Directed by

Raymond Dowidat, Esther Dowidat

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

14 min

Rating

5.6 of 10 from 13 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This short documentary shows a German-American community in Minnesota just before World War II. It was made by amateur filmmakers who lived there.

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What happens

Cologne: From the Diary of Ray and Esther is a 1939 short documentary film which deals with the German-American community on the eve of World War II. It was filmed and directed by amateur filmmakers Esther Dowidat and Raymond Dowidat, residents of Cologne, Minnesota. In 2001, this fourteen-minute film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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