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German siege of Warsaw, Sept. 1939
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1003596
- English
- Updated 1 year ago
Warsaw, Poland 1939: Refugees on the streets of Warsaw, VS of people in the immediate aftermath of a German air raid. CU: a young woman is very uncomfortable with the camera on her, she holds her hand to her face, her expression is between a smile and despair, she is trying to remain composed for the camera. MS, a woman carries a bundle of all of her belongings wrapped in a blanket on her back as she flees from her neighborhood on the outskirts of Warsaw's city center that has been under attack by the Germans. 01:12:17: Dead horse, covered in lime, being dragged from the middle of the stree...
Schoolhouse and countryside in Zlakow Koscielny, Poland 1937
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1003597
- English
- 1937
- Updated 1 year ago
Zlakow Koscielny, Poland (near Lowicz) 1937: images of small town life in this central Polish town. INT: kindergarten age children playing and performing a circle dance on a small stage under the direction of their teacher. VS, children studying, EXT of newly constructed school house and the schoolyard. Images cut back and forth between school children and townspeople going about their daily routines. EXT: girls play dodgeball in the school courtyard, all are in traditional peasant dress, with large, full skirts and scarves cover their heads. One girl is barefoot and has her head uncovered ...
German siege of Warsaw, Sept. 1939
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1003598
- English
- Updated 1 year ago
The first days of September 1939, Warsaw, Poland under siege: MCU of German soldiers who are prisoners of the Poles, talking, smoking, cutting one cuts another's hair. It is believed that the soldier who is seated in the shot is a German Jewish soldier, according to Julien Bryan's accounts of this footage. This is NOT a confirmed fact. VS of destruction; people climbing over rubble, looking for their belongings that may remain in the wreckage of their homes. A young boy with a pet canary in a cage that survived the bombings. CUs of the dead and wounded. A woman plants a memorial of branches...
Folk dancing in Zakopane, Poland 1936
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1003599
- English
- 1936
- Updated 1 year ago
Folk dancing in Zakopane, Poland, 1936. A group of male and female folk dancers perform a series of circle dances in full costume in an open field. It seems to be an exhibition, staged for a small local audience or perhaps simply for Julien Bryan and his camera crew. Bryan did film several circle dances throughout his travels, as a sort of comparative study of folk dances throughout the world.
Polish YMCA in Prague, 1946
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1003600
- English
- 1946
- Updated 1 year ago
Prague, 1946. Polish YMCA: young adults take classes at the YMCA. The classes are co-ed. They are learning English. Scenes of socials, teas, mixers, etc. VS: young men learn to play basketball.
Prison in Prague, 1946
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1003601
- English
- 1946
- Updated 1 year ago
A very brief sequence in an unidentified prison in Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1946. MS, from low angle. An inmate cleans a tile floor on his hands and knees with a wet rag and a bucket of water as a guard watches over him. The guard is in the foreground of the shot, and is seen mainly from the waist down, as a coat and a pair of boots in shadow. The inmate is in the background, and his figure is well lit.
Prague, 1946
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1003602
- English
- 1946
- Updated 1 year ago
EXT shots of the YMCA building in Prague (called YMKA in Polish). VS: reconstruction of buildings in Prague. INT: VS: young adults/university age students; a reading room; CU of books on the bookshelves (Polish titles); MS: a group of young men socialize in a dormitory room, pictures of dignitaries and a poster of Prague hang on the walls; CU of a professor's classroom door. Inside the classroom, English lessons in progress, female teacher. VS: CUs of the students in class and at a social gathering.
Guillotine in prison, 1946
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1003603
- English
- 1946
- Updated 1 year ago
INT, Pancraz prison in Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1946. MS of a guillotine. The working of the machine is being demonstrated by a Czech prison guard in uniform to two men in civilian dress. The three men discuss the machine at some length, the footage is silent, and there is no record in Julien Bryan's shot lists that indicates why this action was shot, who these men are, and why they are watching this demonstration and discussion.
Polish YMCA and rebuilding in Prague, 1946
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1003604
- English
- 1946
- Updated 1 year ago
CU on the book "Beyond Tragedy" by Reinhold Niebuhr. A woman holds the book and turns several pages in the book. EXT, VS Prague, buildings under reconstruction; town square; EXT of the YMCA;CU of sign that reads: "Polska YMCA"; adolescent boys coming out of the swimming pool in their short, tight trunks, lots of horseplay and other things popping up. 01:04:40:11 to 01:05:02:00 Young men and women gathered in a hall for a social, and then seated to watch a musical performance; band on stage, several cuts back and forth between musicians and audience. 01:08:25:20: Swimming pool, the boys how ...
YMCA; music recital; rehabilitation of youth, Prague, 1946
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1003605
- English
- 1946
- Updated 1 year ago
EXT, VS of Prague, large municipal building, trolley car passing through frame, etc. Prague prison guillotine shadow sequence; CU of a prisoner who scrubs the floor; recital hall in Prague, young men and women are gathered for a performance and social. VS of young boys and girls lining up for tickets, then VS, CUs of them inside a theater, laughing and smiling, watching a film? Stage show? VS, CUs of the children lauging and enjoying themselves during the performance. INT, VS, young men at a large cafeterias style table, eating,drinking and horsing around. Very lively, footage. Women settin...
Intertitles for The Invisible Bridge; Czech prison sequence
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1003606
- English
- 1946
- Updated 1 year ago
01:23:52:01: Beginning titles of the Julien Bryan film "The Invisible Bridge". Credits read as follows: A Julien Bryan IFF Presentation, written by Basil Beyea, narrated by Arnold Moss, Edited by Joseph E. Dushock and Edward H. Powick. These credits are followed by more credits for the Far Eastern Expedition crew and the European Expedition crew; END credit runs, then cut to EXT, low angle CU of a cathedral; a shot of man in his prison cell, viewed first through the door's peep hole, and then by opening the cell door entirely, he sits in a chair, arms folded, looking at a wall, then scrubbi...
French children in a youth camp, postwar
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1003607
- English
- 1946
- Updated 1 year ago
This series of outtakes features adolescents (both male and female) in the mountains in France playing volleyball and other sports, dancing, singing and engaging in various outdoor activities at a youth camp. The exact location of this camp in France is not known. In the BG several tents are visible on the hillside. This footage has obviously been staged for the camera. The camera slates between takes indicate that this production was done in conjunction with the YMCA, which explains the focus on youth and their healthy development; the footage was most likely intended for use in an informa...
Street scenes in Latvia, circa 1937
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1003608
- English
- 1937
- Updated 1 year ago
Street scenes, streetcars, bicycles, automobiles, people on the move, traffic cop in busy intersection at the crossing between the Old Town and the Freedom Monument Plaza in Riga, Latvia. 01:00:35 The Latvian Freedom Monument, the letters inscribed on the monument read: TEVZEMEI UN BRIVIBAI [To Fatherland and Freedom], a soldier stands guard at the base, pan up the same monument to the statue of a woman holding 3 gold stars above her head. This is the Freedom Monument in old town Riga. Side street with a view of Riga Town Hall Square, a woman is cleaning the street with a hose and water. LS...
Street scenes in Danzig, circa 1937
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1003609
- English
- 1937
- Updated 1 year ago
Danzig, street scenes: streetcars, buses, supply trucks, shops, civilians going about their daily routines. 01:04:12:00 LS of trolley traveling down tracks in the center of the street. Nazi insignia and flags are visible everywhere, in every window of every building, most buildings have multiple flags displayed; continues with more street scenes of the entire street full of Nazi flags and banners. CU of sign for Adolf Hitler Strasse. MS of Hitler Youth, three young boys pose for the camera and smile; more shots of all the Nazi banners, stormtroopers, etc; 01:06:17:24 MCU of sign that reads:...
Touring Europe; mountains
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1003610
- English
- Updated 1 year ago
Tourist photography of mountains, family in the FG posing next to their car. Hikers prepare for trip in snow-topped mountains. More shots of mountains, landscape, hiking. Farmers.
Touring Paris
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1003611
- English
- Updated 1 year ago
Family footage of the Herz family vacation in Europe in 1937. Footage shows images of Jewish-American life before World War II with its European roots. LS, Versailles. Plaza, park in Paris, horse and buggy. Woman running towards the camera. Paris street scenes and shots of the Arc de Triomphe and the Eiffel Tower. Crowds.
Touring Germany
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1003612
- English
- Updated 1 year ago
Family footage of the Herz family vacation in Europe in 1937. Footage shows images of Jewish-American life before World War II with its European roots. In Germany, along the Rhine, tourist shots of river, a boat, crane industry on the shore, sailors. CU, Herz girl with camera. LS, chalets on shore, bridges. Street scenes with civilians on bicycles, steamboat, chalets in the mountains. In German town (Nuremberg?), street scenes, MS of food and ice cream vendor. CU Coca-Cola sign.
Touring Venice and Rome
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1003613
- English
- Updated 1 year ago
Family footage of the Herz family vacation in Europe in 1937. Footage shows images of Jewish-American life before World War II with its European roots. Herz family in Venice, on gondola. CUs, Jacob Herz, gondolier. Bridges in Venice. Ruins in countryside. 01:10:53 Tourist shots of the Coliseum in Rome and other sights. Statues, beach, tents, ruins, sights in Rome.
Touring Vienna and Austria
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1003614
- English
- Updated 1 year ago
COLOR family footage of the Herz family vacation in Europe in 1937. Footage shows images of Jewish-American life before World War II with its European roots. Herz family posing in front of gardens in Vienna, plaza, "Blumen" stand, chalets. 01:15:22 Jacob, his wife, and two daughters walking towards camera. Two boys (probably Herz relatives living in Vienna). Swimming at the beach. 01:17:32 Herz girls and two boys walking around garden in German folk costumes and lederhosen in front of "Kointech" building. "Das Haus" sign. Strolling through town. Parade.
Visiting Jacob Herz's father & relatives in Wola, Poland
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1003615
- English
- Updated 1 year ago
Family footage of the Herz family vacation in Europe in 1937. Footage shows images of Jewish-American life before World War II with its European roots. Herz family visiting the farm of Jacob's father, Israel, in Wola, Poland. Shots of the farm, house, and family. The Polish Herz family poses in front of their home with children. Jacob's wife and daughter Belle posing inside window frame. Daughter Judith pulls the calf. More shots of the family, farm, house, ducks, chickens.