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Austria-Hungary, ultimately finding his way to Chicago via Canada. Joseph Zegart settled in an Irish neighborhood on the south side of Chicago where anti-Semitism was common, and the experience of anti-Jewish feeling - and physical violence - made a life-long impression on young Arthur Zegart. During the Great Depression, Arthur and his three younger siblings were placed in a Jewish orphanage after his mother became ill and Joseph could no longer support the family. Zegart became fascinated with photography as a young man, but was originally a pre-medical student at the
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Zegart is considered a major pioneer and innovator in documentary film, with a career that lasted from 1945 until his death in 1989. He had many firsts to his credit. He was the first to bring a news film camera into a prison yard and shoot candid interviews with convicts, which he did in "San
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