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This exhibit is an approximately one-minute-long black and white, German language film clip titled Geborgene Schätze or Salvaged Treasures, from the newsreel Welt im Film 42, released March 8, 1946. It is sourced from and copyrighted by the German Federal Archives, Film Collection: F 002286

This film shows some of the main functions of the Wiesbaden Central Collecting Point: the intake, assessment, cataloguing, and conservation of artworks—mainly from German state collections—that were housed there, as well as their public exhibition. The film was made at the time of the first exhibition at the CCP, a poster for which is exhibited nearby. Early scenes of the segment feature Walter Farmer and German museum director Dr. Wulfhild Schoppa. Shots of the exhibition include the bust of Nefertiti from Berlin’s Pergamon Museum, the Central Collecting Point’s most famous resident.

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