Lissowscy Family Archive

collection Lissowscy Family Archive
authors Jan Lissowski
starring Ewa Lissowska; Alek Noszczyński
length 08'54
country Poland
locations Teresin, Poland 
year 1964
format 16 mm
color black and white
signature PAFD 0002 003
description

Jan Lissowski (1920–2008), an author was a student at the secret Warsaw University of Technology in 1943–1944. After the war, he graduated from the Faculty of Communications. While he was still a student, he got employed at the Documentary Film Studio, where he became the Head of Technology. Since 1957, he worked at the Experimental and Service Film Center at ul. Dominikańska 9 (later names of this company – the Research and Development Film Center and FOBR-Techfilm). It was there that he and his team developed an innovative technology for the production of magnetic tape, which, for decades, was used in cinematography for sound recording. In 1960–1967, he worked simultaneously as a technical manager at Television Film Production Department TVP. He later returned to full-time work at FOBR until he retired on January 1st, 1989.

Young people from the scout team, founded at the Inter-Company Housing Cooperative “Old Town”, their guardians and parents.The film was shot during a winter camp organized in early January 1964 in the Agricultural Training Center in Teresin, near Niepokalanów. An inside setting. A scout (ZHP) meeting (in the first row from the left, we can see Ewa Lissowska who is much higher than other scouts, she is in a uniform) during which the educator decorates some of the children with felt oak leaves. The next scenes show the palace courtyard and children run through it with their sledges and ice skates around their necks, and a sleigh ride in the forest. The horse pulls the sleigh. A string of sledges is attached to it. Both the sleigh and the sledges are full of young people. One of the boys, Tomek Lissowski’s friend, Alek Noszczyński, holds a black banner with the name of the group – “Ghosts”. The next indoor scenes show a meal, antics during the meal and a Christmas theatrical performance with elements of magic. The film ends with scenes of a sleigh ride and making a snowman.

(KN)

keywords scouts  ZHP  meeting  uniform  leaf  banner  Christmas tree  baubles  snow  winter  sledges  ice skates  forest  sleigh ride  horse  sleigh  canteen  tureen  soup  nativity play  performance  fairy  halberd  scepter  dance  snowman 
source of funding Ministry of Culture and National Heritage