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 (Unknown); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language); German (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Special Edition, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 82 minutes
Published: 2006-03-01
DVD Release Date: 2006-03-07
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Model: 2956703222
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: Too good to be true?
Summary: 4 Stars
The video was especially touching to me, a Jew, and (now former) teacher of children this age. I was born and have lived in Tennessee over half my life in small town similar to Whitwell. It hurt me deeply because I lamented how great it would be if my own community could become so enlightened. It is not. The few Jews here suffer from the same ignorant undercurrent they experience as a non-Christian minority in many places. I no longer teach because of that two-faced gentile hate for Judaism including from those who teach. So when I saw the film it seemed almost too good to be true.
I made contact with the principal featured in the film. I am sure that a few teachers may have been greatly effected by what they learned and then initiated as an exercise against intolerance, and I am sure that most if not all the children were greatly effected for the good. Not all schools would have taken on such a difficult and perhaps controversial project. But I also know that most principals are opportunists (and expected to be) who will do almost anything to promote their school to get money and news/media coverage. That is the feeling I got here also.
But I went to Whitwell, which is close to Chattanooga (you can get on 26 to Jasper, TN and up 127 north to Whitwell), to reconnoiter this area. And of course I wanted to see the boxcar full of paper clips representing the number of victims of systematic murder under the Nazis in Europe and objects from holocaust victims.
It was on a Sunday and finding the little school and a notice that a tape recorder could be picked up at the local police station we went back down the hill to the main road. The guys were nice enough and I can speak Tennessean. ;-) Whitwell is a small place and very typical of small roadside towns in Tennessee. I had a rather long conversation at the cop shop. They gave me the tape recorder with a nearly worn out tape about the Shoa and the project. I hoped this did not indicate a nice effort in the beginning that had petered out since.
By the conversation (I am sorry to be honest here because I do appreciate what those kids did), I don't think it was a community changing experience as portrayed in the movie. Yet I hope the experiment and experience will serve as a inspiration to the children who truly involved themselves and who will hopefully see the world in a better way and pass that on. I hope they do not change as they get older and take on other 'teachers.'
As someone who lived in a town where a few anti-semitic people who did not want a 'Jew teaching their kids' orchestrated a conspiracy to get rid of him, I fear that PaperClips is just a fluke recording a few weeks and months when such bigoted people were pushed aside in order to allow some decency to prevail. PaperClips shows how something that happened to Jews in Europe could strongly effect the hearts of children. Now if only they could be effected continually to resist the hate that infects many small Christian towns in Tennessee and around the world. Maybe they will come to understand why we Jews (and others) have died so many times for being Jews and at whose hands; and finally search their souls why this is so.
Use this movie to consider how people can be, but not to fantasize how people are. That is too good to be true, and it's just not so. It inspires hope for change, not truly proof of it. Hey, but that's a huge, huge step in the right direction. I cried watching it because I realized how cheated I was in my own community. If my town did something similar, I would not believe it to be genuine at all. (To my understanding there are no Jews living in Whitwell. Is it easier to sympathize for Jews dead for 50 years than one living next door, perhaps, as I have found in my own town.) But this community at least tried and went to great lengths to establish their monument to the millions of Jews who were murdered. This makes small town Whitwell, TN an exception and PaperClips exceptional as a film document of its children's efforts.
The documentary itself is very well done although can be a little hectic. To me, this made it feel like everyday school life. Whatever my opinion and personal take on the actual situation of Jews and Tennessee, it is a film worth watching.
But kids should be given more actual background on the subject of the Shoa (Holocaust) and Christian anti-judaism in Europe over the centuries beforehand (as the students of Whitwell Elementary were) before viewing PaperClips. And if you can drive up or down the beautiful Sequatchie Valley (US 127) stop by and see the boxcar sitting in front of the old school.
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