Paper Clips
by Elliot Berlin, Joe Fab
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Actor: Dagmar Schroeder-Hildebrand, David Smith, Linda Hooper, Sandra Roberts, Tom BosleyDirector: Elliot Berlin, Joe Fab
Brand: HART SHARP VIDEO
Producer: Joe Fab
Writer: Joe Fab
Producer: Ari Daniel Pinchot
Producer: Bob Weinstein
Producer: Donny Epstein
Producer: Elie Landau
Producer: Harvey Weinstein
Producer: Jeffrey Tahler
Producer: Matthew Hiltzik
Producer: Robert M. Johnson
Producer: Stuart Avi Savitsky
Producer: Yeeshai Gross
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); German (Original Language); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Special Edition, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 82 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-03-07
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Studio: Arts Alliance Amer
Product features:
- In 1998, a group of Tennessee schoolchildren embarked on a project that would change their lives and impact those of countless others around the world. Responding to a history lesson about the Holocaust, the students began collecting 11 million paper clips (a Norwegian symbol of Nazi resistance) to commemorate each of the lives lost in the concentration camps. As news of the Paper Clip Project spr
DVD Reviews of Paper Clips
DVD Review: Awesome story, mediocre documentary
Summary: 3 Stars
Paper Clips / B000CMNJF4
Let's be clear about one thing: this is a truly awesome real-life story. What this town did, in trying to educate their children, is wonderfully admirable. I wish every school in America would focus on these important lessons - on not just the rote memorization of dates, names, and locations, but in teaching children that there are other people out there, different people, and what their lives are like. I was especially moved that not only did the teachers emphasize the trials the Jewish race faced in WWII, but also emphasized how many good German people exist today who are deeply sorrowful that such a terrible thing happened in their country - it is truly refreshing to see a school handle such a complicated issue so delicately and not succumb to the temptation to exchange one form of racism for another.
Having said that, this documentary is not as good as I'd hoped it would be. I definitely recommend watching it, but as a rental, and not as a purchase, in my opinion. The documentation is somewhat poor, and it is particularly annoying to cut away from speeches of actual survivors to interviews with the children who are summarizing the speech for us. It's good to see that the children really care and are listening, but there's no reason we couldn't have heard both the survivor's speech AND the child summary - ideally the former could be a voice-over during one of the many counting scenes. I recognize that a documentary only has so much time, and probably the crew wanted to focus on the paper clip 'story' and not the meanings behind it, but to do so is something of a betrayal of the *point* of the paper clip project - which was to remember the people who died, and why, so that it could never happen again, and not to just collect a lot of metal.
Which isn't to say this isn't a documentary worth watching - it is. Rent it, watch it, and then decide if you need to buy a copy to add to your home library.
~ Ana Mardoll
DVD Review: a great story but...
Summary: 3 Stars
I thought this was a very moving documentary with a great story to tell. Some of the interviews do sound very forced,(we southerners are insecure about how our accent will pick up on camera), but overall it was fine.
The only thing I really disliked about this film was the way they edited in the students' comments over top of the Holocaust survivors' speeches. Let the survivors speak! I would much rather hear the stories in the words of the people who lived them than hear a 13 year old girl summarize them.
DVD Review: A Must See For All
Summary: 5 Stars
This is such an educational and inspirational CD refering to the Holocaust and should be shown to all schoolchildren. The efforts of a class in a small southern town reached all across the world and taught everyone about tolerance and understanding.I ordered this CD from Amazon so that I could sit in the comfort of my own home with my grandchildren, watch it and discuss it with them. DVD Review: This is a bad documentary and a good 6 o'clock news package
Summary: 1 Stars
This documentary isn't your normal documentary. It plays out more like a evening news package than a current documentary. For some documentary's film makers will try and capture humanity by filming real people, real events, and real emotions. With Paper Clips the viewer is served to an array of rehearsed interviews read with little emotional depth. This isn't the film makers fault either.
I don't want this bad review to look bad on the kids themselves. The story of what this school did is amazing and I'm glad it will be remembered for future generations.
As mentioned before, the interviews are very very forced and often completely take the viewer out of the natural amazing events that were documented.
Example: At one point, several holocaust survivors come to town to talk to the kids about what they went through. The film shows an elderly man beginning to talk about his experience in a concentration camp when they cut the audio from him and splice in an interview of a young girl talking about what the elderly man said. LET THE HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR SPEAK! There are many instances where the movie fails to touch deep emotions without trying to do it with the string's and woodwinds playing on the background.
DVD Review: Remarkable in every way
Summary: 5 Stars
My only personal connection to this film or the holocaust is that I am also a member of the human race. This is possibly history's most powerful documentary about humanity from every angle. Watch it, give it, discuss it, share it; weep for sorrow and weep for joy, celebrate the human spirit. Buy it. Buy it now.
Description of Paper Clips
In 1998 a group of Tennessee schoolchildren embarked on a class project that would change their lives and impact those of countless others around the world. Responding to a history lesson about the Holocaust the students began collecting 11 million paper clips (a Norwegian symbol of Nazi resistance) to commemorate each of the lives lost in the concentration camps. As news of the Paper Clip Project spread through the Internet the children found themselves aided by total strangers in their effort to build a permanent memorial to tolerance and diversity in their schoolyard. Filmmakers Elliot Berlin and Joe Fab document the project in their documentary PAPER CLIPS for a moving testament to Margaret Mead's assertion that "a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world."System Requirements:Running Time 84 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:?DOCUMENTARIES/MISC. Rating:?NR UPC:?829567032220 Manufacturer No:?2956703222Paper Clips is an inspiring 2004 documentary about a consciousness-raising project that blossomed into something beautiful at a rural Tennessee school. When the principal of Whitwell Middle School sought a program that would teach diversity to a predominantly white, Protestant student body, the notion of focusing on the Holocaust--specifically Hitler's extermination of six million Jews--seemed like an obvious way to go. But understanding what "six million" looks like became a challenge. Thus was born the idea of collecting that number of paper clips at Whitwell as a visual reference.
But then it turned out paper clips actually have, in historical terms, symbolic value where the Holocaust is concerned. In this moving film, one sees Whitwell students dig into research on Germany's genocidal campaign, solicit clips from a variety of leaders and celebrities, and make a name for themselves on the national news. In time, the world comes to Whitwell's doorstep, via unsolicited donations of clips from people around the world, and in a tearful meeting of students and Holocaust survivors. The dimensions of the project, the lessons about prejudice and intolerance, are stunning to watch grow beyond anyone's wildest expectations. This is a great film for families and classrooms to watch together. --Tom Keogh
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