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August 19, 2022
At the Movies: ‘Three Minutes' a tragic celluloid memorial
By JOCELYN NOVECK
AP National Writer
AP National Writer
The story of the film's discovery is remarkable in itself. The footage, mostly in color, was discovered in a closet in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida in 2009.
What gets you, deep in the gut, are the smiles. The broad, awkward, sometimes silly smiles of people on an unremarkable day in an unremarkable town in 1938 Poland, fascinated by this new thing called a movie camera and oblivious to the fact that one day, this amateur travel movie will become a devastating historical artifact.
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