Women, childcare, park, "Der Stuermer", market
Creator(s)
- Julien H. Bryan (Camera Operator)
- Library of Congress - Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division (MBRS)
- Julien H. Bryan (Director)
Biographical History
Julien Hequembourg Bryan (1899-1974) was an American documentarian and filmmaker. Bryan traveled widely taking 35mm film that he sold to motion picture companies. In the 1930s, he conducted extensive lecture tours, during which he showed film footage he shot in the former USSR. Between 1935 and 1938, he captured unique records of ordinary people and life in Nazi Germany and in Poland, including Jewish areas of Warsaw and Krakow and anti-Jewish signs in Germany. His footage appeared in March of Time theatrical newsreels. His photographs appeared in Life Magazine. He was in Warsaw in September 1939 when Germany invaded and remained throughout the German siege of the city, photographing and filming what would become America's first cinematic glimpse of the start of WWII. He recorded this experience in both the book Siege (New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1940) and the short film Siege (RKO Radio Pictures, 1940) nominated for an Academy Award in 1940. In 1946, Bryan photographed the efforts of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Agency in postwar Europe.
Scope and Content
INT women training for Nazi motherhood at soup kitchen, cooking class, ladling soup. All at table, hands clasped, praying, eating. Class on infant care, instruction with doll, diapers, rubbing lotion. Potty in glass bowl in crib corner. Women around crib see how to lift baby out. LS town of summer garden homes with trees, big buildings (new city housing?) on outskirts. Apartment building with five stories, swastika flags. Woman in backyard feeding chickens. Pram with baby, stares at sky. In garden, girl picks daisy; shaved man with cigar. 00:24:20 EXT shops, sign "B. R. Friedland" [this is a Jewish jewelry store owned by the Friedlander Brothers]. Lovely park with expanse of grass. Large group of men playing cards. Families in park. Boy with slingshot and toy glider plane. In Nuremberg, three boys with hats hanging out at synagogue gate, waiting for their parents. Stone stairway, men leaving synagogue after religious service on Saturday morning. Posters plastered onto street lamp with clothes-hooks in front of the Nuremberg cathedral, including "Der Stuermer" and caricature of Jewish man. LS from above, Nuremberg marketplace early in day, lots of wares laid out neatly. CU from roof of rooftops, shingles CU. Old women selling produce.
Note(s)
See Story 3437, Film ID 953 for the continuation of this reel (FEB 7127). Library of Congress film-to-video transfer is wrong speed, perhaps 18 fps. Action is too slow on Film ID 951 and 952. Additional photographs are available in the USHMM Photo Archives.
Subjects
- JEWS
- FOOD
- SWASTIKAS
- GERMANY
- CARICATURES
- CHILDREN
- SYNAGOGUES
- FLOWERS
- PROPAGANDA (ANTI-JEWISH)
- HITLER YOUTH
- SOUP
- CIVILIANS
- GERMANS
- BRYAN, JULIEN
- PARKS
- STUERMER, DER (NEWSPAPER)
- WOMEN
- CHICKENS
- MARKETS
- BANNERS
Places
- Nuremberg, Germany
- Berlin, Germany
Genre
- Film
- Unedited.