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Film, Video [Schoenberg and Kolisch Quartet playing handball; Group walking in the Hills--Ira Gershwin--home movies]

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Title

  • [Schoenberg and Kolisch Quartet playing handball; Group walking in the Hills--Ira Gershwin--home movies]

Summary

  • Footage of handball played on the tennis court at the Gershwin home and footage of a group walking probably in the Hollywood Hills within the Santa Monica Mountains in the Los Angeles, California, area.

Created / Published

  • [between 1936 and 1939?]

Contents

  • 1. Schoenberg and Kolisch Quartet playing handball (00:07-1:27): Kolisch Quartet musicians Felix Khuner and Benar Heifetz play handball on the tennis court at the Gershwin home. Doris Warner LeRoy stands with Kolisch Quartet musician Rudolf Kolisch near the tennis court's chain link fence. Felix Khuner, Rudolf Kolisch, Doris Warner LeRoy, Benar Heifetz, Kolisch Quartet musician Eugene Lehner, and Gertrud Schoenberg are filmed standing together; unidentified woman standing with group is possibly Benar Heifetz's wife Olga Heifetz or Eugene Lehner's wife Lucca Lehner. Felix Khuner and Eugene Lehner throw a ball back and forth. George Gershwin smokes a pipe and stands with Rudolf Kolisch and Doris Warner LeRoy. George Gershwin, his mother Rose Gershwin, and Rudolf Kolisch stand together. George Gershwin's dog Tony plays with the ball. Arnold Schoenberg shakes hands with Rudolf Kolisch and they are joined by Gertrud Schoenberg -- 2. Group walking in the Hills (01:28-02:45): Moss Hart, Helen Broderick, and Alma Hearst are filmed together probably in the Hollywood Hills within the Santa Monica Mountains in the Los Angeles, California, area. Vincente Minnelli and an unidentified man wearing a hat shake hands with them. Vincente Minnelli and Ira Gershwin stand together and point to the hills in the distance. Ira Gershwin and Alma Hearst briefly hold hands and walk together. Alma Hearst walks alone towards the camera. Tony, George Gershwin's dog, runs, plays in the mud, and drinks from a puddle.

Headings

  • -  Gershwin, Ira,--1896-1983--Friends and associates
  • -  Gershwin, Leonore,--1900-1991--Friends and associates
  • -  Kolisch Quartett,--depicted
  • -  Khuner, Felix,--1906-1991,--depicted
  • -  Kolisch, Rudolf,--1896-1978,--depicted
  • -  Heifetz, Benar,--depicted,--depicted
  • -  Lehner, Eugene,--1906-1997,--depicted
  • -  Gershwin, George,--1898-1937,--depicted
  • -  Gershwin, Rose,--depicted
  • -  Tony--(Dog),--depicted
  • -  Schoenberg, Arnold,--1874-1951,--depicted
  • -  Schoenberg, Gertrud,--depicted
  • -  Vidor, Doris Warner,--1912-1978,--depicted
  • -  Hart, Moss,--1904-1961,--depicted
  • -  Broderick, Helen,--1891-1959,--depicted
  • -  Walker, Alma,--1908-1972,--depicted
  • -  Minnelli, Vincente,--depicted
  • -  Gershwin, Ira,--1896-1983,--depicted
  • -  Handball--California--Beverly Hills
  • -  Tennis courts--California--Beverly Hills
  • -  Walking--California--Los Angeles
  • -  Hollywood Hills (Los Angeles, Calif.)
  • -  Santa Monica Mountains (Calif.)

Genre

  • Amateur films
  • Nonfiction films

Notes

  • -  Appearing: Felix Khuner (Kolisch Quartet), Benar Heifetz (Kolisch Quartet), Doris Warner LeRoy, Rudolf Kolisch (Kolisch Quartet), Eugene Lehner (Kolisch Quartet), George Gershwin, Rose Gershwin, Tony (dog), Arnold Schoenberg, Gertrud Schoenberg, Moss Hart, Helen Broderick, Alma Hearst, Vincente Minnelli, Ira Gershwin, and others.
  • -  Schoenberg and Kolisch Quartet playing handball filmed at 1019 N. Roxbury Drive, Beverly Hills, California, in 1936 or 1937.
  • -  Group walking in the Hills probably filmed in the Hollywood Hills within the Santa Monica Mountains in the Los Angeles, California, area in about 1939. Exact location cannot be determined.
  • -  The Kolisch Quartet played their first Los Angeles, California, recital on October 30, 1936, according to a Los Angeles evening citizen news article. Schoenberg and Kolisch Quartet playing handball was filmed between October 1936 and George Gershwin's death on July 11, 1937.
  • -  Group walking in the Hills probably filmed in about 1939 based on the edge code date identified on an additional fragment that is likely related. See [Vincente Minnelli, Alma Hearst, and George Gershwin's dog Tony in the Hills--Ira Gershwin--home movie] (LCCN 2024603503).
  • -  "Schoenberg and Kolisch Quartet playing handball then beginning of Brooks ed: Ira, Moss & Minnelli in the hills - lengthy shots of Tony"--Original container.
  • -  Sources used: original containers; Ira and Leonore S. Gershwin Trust archive, 1895-2012 ILS record (LCCN 2018571963); Ira and Leonore S. Gershwin Trust Archive finding aid; [Gershwins, 1936-1939--Ira Gershwin--home movies] DVD-R with identification; Los Angeles evening citizen news, October 10, 1936, p. 13, viewed November 13, 2024 via Newspapers.com; YouTube WWW site (Arnold Schönberg Center channel), viewed November 13, 2024.
  • -  Ira and Leonore S Gershwin Trust archive, 1895-2012.
  • -  Moving image material transferred to LC NAVCC Moving Image Section from the LC Music Division, 2011-04-05.

Medium

  • 1 video file (digital) (approximately 2 min., 45 sec.) : si., col.

Source Collection

  • Gershwin Trust Collection (Library of Congress)

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2024603502

Online Format

  • image
  • video

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Schoenberg and Kolisch Quartet playing handball; Group walking in the Hills--Ira Gershwin--home movies. [Between 1936 and 1939?, 1936] Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2024603502/.

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(1936) Schoenberg and Kolisch Quartet playing handball; Group walking in the Hills--Ira Gershwin--home movies. [Between 1936 and 1939?] [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2024603502/.

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Schoenberg and Kolisch Quartet playing handball; Group walking in the Hills--Ira Gershwin--home movies. [Between 1936 and 1939?, 1936] Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2024603502/>.