Βρέθηκε εκπληκτικό φιλμ ντοκουμέντο μετά από 86 χρόνια! Το φιλμ τράβηξε ο George Magarian, κατά την διάρκεια των γεγονότων της Σμύρνης.
Ο George Magarian, γεννημένος το 1895 σπούδασε στο “Αμερικανικό Κολλέγιο” στο Ικόνιο (Konya) της Τουρκίας. Αργότερα, διατέλεσε διευθυντής στο παράρτημα του Ικονίου της ΧΑΝ (Χριστιανική Αδελφότης Νέων) ή YMCA.
Αν και η YMCA δεν είναι φιλανθρωπική οργάνωση, την περίοδο των γεγονότων στη Μικρά Ασία, το 1922, οργάνωσε δομές ανακούφισης των θυμάτων της τραγωδίας αυτής. Ο George Magarian, την ίδια στιγμή που συμμετείχε στα γεγονότα αυτά, την ίδια στιγμή, με μια μηχανή 35 mm, κινηματογράφησε πολλές σκηνές της ανθρωπιστικής καταστροφής, στη Σμύρνη, στην Αθήνα και στην Θεσσαλονίκη.
Οι συγκλονιστικές αυτές εικόνες παρέμειναν επί 86 χρόνια στο διαμέρισμα της συζύγου του, στη Νέα Υόρκη. Ολοι αγνοούσαν την ύπαρξή τους, έως ότου το 2008 ο εγγονός του βρήκε το μοναδικό αυτό ντοκουμέντο, το έσωσε από τη φθορά του χρόνου, και έτσι, είμαστε τώρα σε θέση να δούμε αυτά τα μοναδικά σπαράγματα της μνήμης.
Το αρχικό video είχε αναρτηθεί από τον ίδιο τον εγγονό του George Magarian και κινηματογραφιστή Robert Davidian.
Σάββατο, Ιουνίου 29, 2013Συντάκτης: Δημήτρης Συμεωνίδης
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Uploaded on Mar 2, 2008
My grandfather, George Magarian, born in 1895, educated at the American College at Konia, Turkey and, later, director of the Konya YMCA, filmed Smyrna, Turkey, immediately after it's genocidal destruction.
"The Great Fire of Smyrna is the name commonly given to the fire that ravaged Izmir/Smyrna from 13 to 17 September 1922. Turkish armed forces systematically burned the city and killed Greek and Armenian inhabitants. This is based on extensive eyewitness evidence from Western troops sent to Smyrna during the evacuation, foreign diplomats/relief workers based at Smyrna and Turkish sources." - www.Wikipedia.org
The resulting 35mm edited nitrate film was hidden in my grandmother's apartment in NYC for 60 years. I was lucky to transfer it to digital before it completely disintegrates. -Robert Davidian 5 March 2008
Three years ago, I met with Fulbrighter, film maker Maria Iliou, in Washington DC to restore the film and transfer it to HD video at Colorlab. This was an initiative by Iliou & PROTEAS, funded by PROTEAS, a Greek not for profit company, that has been saving archival materials about SMYRNA and THE EXCHANGE all around the world the last 3 years. I gave them permission to include this material in their two projects, SMYRNA and EXCHANGE, that will be opening at the BENAKI MUSEUM in December 15th 2011 (SMYRNA) and February 12th 2012 (EXCHANGE) a first presentation of those images in Greece to be done by my agreement. It is a Maria's Iliou and PROTEAS initiative, funded by BODOSSAKIS FOUNDATION, JF COSTOPOULOS FOUNDATION, ARGYROS FOUNDATION, NICHOLAS BOURAS FOUNDATION, JIM CHANOS, ROY & DIANE VAGELOS FOUNDATION. - Robert Davidian 19 April 2011
"The Great Fire of Smyrna is the name commonly given to the fire that ravaged Izmir/Smyrna from 13 to 17 September 1922. Turkish armed forces systematically burned the city and killed Greek and Armenian inhabitants. This is based on extensive eyewitness evidence from Western troops sent to Smyrna during the evacuation, foreign diplomats/relief workers based at Smyrna and Turkish sources." - www.Wikipedia.org
The resulting 35mm edited nitrate film was hidden in my grandmother's apartment in NYC for 60 years. I was lucky to transfer it to digital before it completely disintegrates. -Robert Davidian 5 March 2008
Three years ago, I met with Fulbrighter, film maker Maria Iliou, in Washington DC to restore the film and transfer it to HD video at Colorlab. This was an initiative by Iliou & PROTEAS, funded by PROTEAS, a Greek not for profit company, that has been saving archival materials about SMYRNA and THE EXCHANGE all around the world the last 3 years. I gave them permission to include this material in their two projects, SMYRNA and EXCHANGE, that will be opening at the BENAKI MUSEUM in December 15th 2011 (SMYRNA) and February 12th 2012 (EXCHANGE) a first presentation of those images in Greece to be done by my agreement. It is a Maria's Iliou and PROTEAS initiative, funded by BODOSSAKIS FOUNDATION, JF COSTOPOULOS FOUNDATION, ARGYROS FOUNDATION, NICHOLAS BOURAS FOUNDATION, JIM CHANOS, ROY & DIANE VAGELOS FOUNDATION. - Robert Davidian 19 April 2011
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