Three Minutes - A Lengthening is a simple 16mm home movie filmed in 1938 by David Kurtz, who made the film while on a tourist trip across Europe. The footage was discovered in 2009 in Florida by David Kurtz's grandson Glenn and meticulously restored and digitized, but when and where was it filmed, who are the people in it?
We find out early in the documentary that the town is Nasielsk, Poland and filmed just before the holocaust started. Only 100 Jews in Nasielsk survived, 1000's didn't. The joyous smiles add a special poignancy knowing as we do the horrors that would soon follow.
The entire film is the three minutes, some scenes are slowed down, some enlarged, the images go back and forth and dissected trying to identify the people while paying tribute to their lives. Three Minutes - A Lengthening is a detective story showing us how much we miss when watch old films, we see what is happening in the moment, this film tries to show the lives behind those moments.
Three Minutes: A Lengthening was donated to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum which posted it online, one of the people who saw it identified her grandfather in a crowd of boys.
100% on RT
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/three_minutes_a_lengtheningWatch the trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8RprTU0hXY 
