The house of Rothschild

Duration: 0:44:00

Creator: Indiana University Audio-Visual Center: Distributor | Teaching Film Custodians: Distributor

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: Teaching Film Custodians classroom film of excerpts from the 1934 20th Century Pictures feature film, "The House of Rothschild", based on a play by George Hembert Westley. Dramatizes the part played by the banking firm of the Rothschild brothers who contributed financial support to the defeat and exile of Napoleon and portrays how their struggle to correct racial injustice helped to abolish restrictions against the civil rights of Jews in Europe.

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