Sunday in the park, 1937
The shuttered front of Gebr. Friedländer, then a wide park lawn with card players, sleepers in their suits, families with prams and a boy with a paper glider.
The sequence opens on a stone shop front lettered GEBR. FRIEDLÄNDER, its shutters down and flags hanging from the balcony above. Then a broad lawn under old trees fills with the ordinary life of a summer Sunday: older men in dark suits watch a card game, men sleep on the grass with their hats beside them, young mothers sit in a row beside their prams, a father hands a ball to a toddler in lederhosen, and a boy launches a paper glider with a rubber-band catapult.
Jewish-owned shops still traded under their own names in 1937, under growing pressure of boycott and forced sale; after November 1938 almost all were closed or passed into other hands. On the park lawn nothing in the picture marks the year.
Film Families on the lawn, 1937
Film The shop front of Gebr. Friedländer, 1937
Film Men playing cards in the park, 1937
Film A small boy on the grass with his mother, 1937
Film Father, mother and child on the lawn, 1937
Film Sleepers on the grass, 1937
Film Mothers with prams in the park, 1937
Film Children and prams on a summer lawn, 1937
Film A couple with a pram, children at play, 1937
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