Issue link: http://digital.copcomm.com/i/629850
Opposite page, center: The UN vote on the establishment of the Jewish State took place in a set constructed in the Schneller Compound in Jerusalem. Many items were built to align the set with the times. Bottom: Mr. Shimoni's sketch of a Jerusalem street with its typical architecture of arches and Jerusalem-stone. Shops were constructed on a dirt road, laundry flapping on washing-lines, and in the background a wagon sells kerosene. This page, above: A floor plan of the Schneller Compound showing the division of the sets portrays the partitioning of the public space where the family conducts its daily life. This is the space the family enters after their walks. Their daily life takes place there: telephone calls, purchase of food, food rationing, distribution of kerosene, etc. Bottom, left to right: A production photograph taken as the family enters the pharmacy. A Jerusalem street shown in the movie, narrow, dirty and enclosing pedestrians like they were in a maze. Wooden scaffolding and tin façades were added to cover modern parts of the street and break up the uniform look of today's Jerusalem.