In 1933, a children's book by Zvi Lieberman "Oded ha-noded" ("Oded the Wanderer") was made into a silent film, the country's first full-length feature film for children, produced on a shoestring budget with private financing. In 1938, another book by Lieberman, "Me’al ha-khoravot"("Over the Ruins") was turned into a 70-minute film with a soundtrack and dialogue. Lieberman wrote the screenplay himself. Produced by Nathan Axelrod and directed by Alfred Wolf, it told the story of children in a Second Temple Jewish village in the Galilee where all the adults were killed by the Romans. The children rebuild the village. Production costs came to 1,000 Palestine pounds. It failed at the box office, but is considered a landmark in the history of Israeli cinema.