"Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today depicts the most famous courtroom drama in modern times, and the first to make extensive use of film as evidence. It was also the first trial to be extensively documented, aurally and visually. All of the trials, which lasted for nearly 11 months, were recorded. And though the trial was filmed while it was happening, strict limits were placed on the Army Signal Corps cameramen by the Office of Criminal Counsel. In the end, they were permitted to film only about 25 hours over the entire course of the trial. This was to prove a great impediment for writer/director Stuart Schulberg, and his editor Joseph Zigman, when they were engaged to make the official film about the trial, in 1946, shortly after its conclusion."
In 1947 the film was banned in the U.S. and never shown. Carl Schulberg's daughter, Sandra, our guest speaker, restored the film and it is now being shown internationally.
Sandra will talk about the process of restoring this film, the reasons why showing the Nuremberg trials still remains important and relevant today, and much more.