Ernest Kleinberg Films: The Valais - Bread and Wine

The beautiful canton of Valais in the Swiss Alps is the setting for this closeup look at traditional farm and village life through all four seasons.
Filmed 1957-59; produced in 1970. Transfer is from a faded print.
Ernest Kleinberg (1910-1980) was born in Breslau, Germany. He grew up in Vienna, where he became a photographer for American news agencies and Life magazine. In March 1938 he was arrested by the Gestapo for photographing Hitler's march into Vienna. Released six weeks later thanks to pressure from American friends, he escaped to New York where he resumed photography and rescued his entire family from Nazi Austria. In the early 1950s he became a self-taught film producer. He subsequently completed more than 25 documentary movies.
Other films by Ernest Kleinberg: / @robertfkleinberg
Europe as it was
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Belgium: • Ernest Kleinberg Films...
Bruges: • Ernest Kleinberg Films...
Carcasonne: • Ernest Kleinberg Films...
Crossroads Europe: • Ernest Kleinberg Films...
Lausanne: • Ernest Kleinberg Films...
The Netherlands: • Ernest Kleinberg Films...
Nördlingen: • Ernest Kleinberg Films...
Valais: • Ernest Kleinberg Films...
Vernazza: • Ernest Kleinberg Films...

[@alandight193]

What a nice documentary. Much has changed but the mountains remains majestic! I recognised several places like Val d'Anniviers and the surrounding of Sierre. You should try the wine produced in the area, they're are delicious!

[@RobertFKleinberg]

Thank you very much for watching, and for the comment. Indeed, the area remains beautiful.

[@photo0P]

Hello Robert, are you his grandson? I own his editing table. It was given to me by a man in Santa Cruz. I'm not sure who he got it from but I've kept it for many years. I was a photojournalist and anthropologist. Thank you for posting these films. I've enjoyed them very much and it makes me happy to know that many of them were done on this editing table.

[@RobertFKleinberg]

Thank you very much for this message! Ernest Kleinberg was my father. I knew his equipment well. I assume you mean the dark brown wood table with two horizontal film plates on it. Yes, nearly every film he finished was put together on that table. And I mean "put together" literally! It is hard to imagine given the video tools we have now - for his films, every shot was cut on a separate piece of 16mm film. Then each and every shot he chose, long or short, was glued by his own hand onto the master reel, working on that table. After that master reel was done, he then edited the multitrack sound (which he had put together on 16mm audio tape) with the visual film on his editing machine. I hope viewers appreciate the level of craftsmanship built into all of his films. Thank you again. ps If you ever decide you want to get rid of that table, please contact me.

[@wahidegypt54]

Nice video bro

[@RobertFKleinberg]

Thank you for watching.

[@wahidegypt54]

@@RobertFKleinberg 👍