(26 Nov 2011) SHOTLIST
AP Television
Jerusalem - November 24, 2011
1. Close of music box
2. Mid of elderly man sitting next to antique music box
3. Mid of gramophone and radios on display
4. Mid of irons on display
5. Mid of typewriter
6. Mid of visitors at exhibition, pan left
7. Close of "Singer" sewing machine
8. Pan right from shawl to elderly man
9. Wide of exhibition
10. Mid of framed black and white photos
11. Close of sign reading (English): "Classic Senior Residences"
12. Mid of senior citizen
13. Wide of Ronit Yosha, Marketing Director of "Classic Senior Residences", talking to senior citizens
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Ronit Yosha, Marketing Director, "Classic Senior Residences":
"I think that nostalgia is, from what I feel here in this place, this home - the residents use it in a positive way. I mean, they did so much in their lives, they had a full life and now they sit relaxed, they are doing things like all kind of hobbies and when we sit and talk they talk with a lot of nostalgia about the past."
15. Mid of old radios
16. Close of radio
17. Close of scales
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Ester Baruch-Goldman, 78 years old, retirement home resident:
"Most of these items were the state of the art at the time like typewriters, like radio. And it gives us a lot of satisfaction, that we see that young people are coming and they are astonished to see all these items."
19. Various of typewriter keys
20. Close of working sewing machine
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Daniel Altschuler, 84 years old, retirement home resident: (zooms into leather trousers)
"Over 70 years ago that I got this (pair of trousers) and I took it with me wherever I went. After England I came eventually to Israel in 1953. That's the story behind these trousers."
22. Wide of music box
23. Close of letter by Sir Moses Montefiore, banker and philanthropist
24. Close of glasses
25. Close of typewriter
26. Mid of gold-coloured telephone
27. Wide of visitors to exhibition
28. Wide of Aharon, exhibition visitor, looking at "Singer" sewing machine
29. SOUNDBITE (English) Aharon, exhibition visitor:
"This is our appreciation to the people which are keeping the history, which is also the history of our nation."
30. Mid of senior citizen
31. Wide of exhibition
32. Various of senior citizen in wheelchair outdoors
33. Mid of sculpture figures on bench
34. Zoom out of music box playing
LEAD IN:
A collection of everyday items is bringing the past to back to life for a group of Israeli senior citizens.
Wind up gramophones, old radios, typewriters and hand-written letters are just some of the cherished items in the exhibition at a Jerusalem retirement home.
STORYLINE:
It may be old, but the music from this antique music box can bring back a lot of memories.
The perforated music disc, twinkling away at a gentle tune, is just one of the dozens of nostalgic bits and pieces gathered together for an exhibition steeped in nostalgia.
A group of senior citizens at a retirement home in Jerusalem put together a display of rare items that were kept and cherished over the years.
It's their way of celebrating and preserving a precious past.
There are typewriters, hot irons, sewing machines and family portraits - objects once common, but nearly all made redundant by modern technology.
For Ronit Yosha, Marketing Director, at "Classic Senior Residences" where the exhibition is on show, this kind of nostalgia is positive therapy:
78-year-old resident Ester Baruch-Goldman describes how these were once the must-have items of the day:
Until this day Daniel keeps his trousers as a reminder of his rescue:
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