Reply To: Newly discovered: Only known video of the Chofetz Chaim

The Fox Movietone correspondent, Hans Pebal, who actually filmed the scene listed in his report all the rabbis he filmed, based on the identification he was given at the scene from passerby’s. He lists the Chofetz Chaim by both name and title. He submitted this report to Fox headquarters in New York, together with the film a few days after the footage was taken, where it remained until both the report and film were transferred by Fox to the University of South Carolina as part of a donation of their historic newsreels. The university has cataloged together the reel together with its original report, both available in their library.

And the image in the film looks exactly like the famous photo of the CC sitting in front of his house talking to his son.