In order that the Jewish religious dictum against the taking of pictures should not be violated, the members of a Chassidic sect paid the sum of 30,000 kronen for a moving picture film, which they then burned.
During the wedding of the son of a Carpatho-Russian Chassidic Rabbi and the daughter of a Roumanian Rabbi, linking two houses of the religious group, the Pragian Jewish Film Company took pictures of the ceremony for ethnographical purposes. When the religious head learned that the wedding ceremony had been filmed, great excitement prevailed. After prolonged negotiations, the negatives were purchased from the company for 30,000 kronen, and burned.
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