Farming wine and tobacco; Mussolini visit to Berlin
Creator(s)
- Julien H. Bryan (Director)
- Library of Congress - Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division (MBRS)
- Julien H. Bryan (Camera Operator)
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
Rural/farming activity. MLS unloading tobacco leaves. 00:01:16 In Heidelberg, CU, door and porcelain sign: "Dr. med. E. Lobstein" "Arischer Arzt" [Aryan doctor]. 00:01:49 Grape harvest and wine pressing scenes. In Rhineland/Neustadt, kneeling to pick grapes, VCU, beautiful light. MLS of vineyard and workers. MS, older woman bent over basket. MLS edge of field, pouring grapes from basket and into big press. INT dark, primitive, grape press, slowly coming down. Leaking out of barrel down chute. Grape pulp being ground up. CU, grapes. In field, little boy helps man. Loading funnel, press. Scarecrow on stick over vines. 00:08:19 Lunchbreak in field, drinking out of bottle, eating bread. 00:09:17 Sign: "Ruppertsberg / an der Weinstrasse." 00:09:28 Tobacco scenes, good light, tobacco hung on outside of houses and barns. LS, castle in Dresden, slow pan across moat, rippling water reflection; VLS in distance. 00:11:10 Berlin streets packed with people, excitement and bustle. Nazi flags, swastikas, banners, view down long wide avenue with white columns erected. People everywhere waiting, sunny day, outside Reichstag. "1A" plates. Some stand or sit on cars to get better view; long Nazi banners. 00:12:54 Motorcade left to right, then right to left, salutes, some rush behind to get better view. Boys on shoulders: "Heil!" 00:14:11 Hand mirrors help to see over crowds. SS men hold back crowds, rush to surround enclosed car, held back, by line of police, long motorcade. SS men line road as Mussolini's car comes along. Camera follows car.
Note(s)
Additional photographs are available in the USHMM Photo Archives.
Subjects
- AUTOMOBILES
- CIVILIANS
- CHILDREN
- STREETS
- MUSSOLINI, BENITO
- TOBACCO
- WOMEN
- SWASTIKAS
- MOTORCADES
- FLAGS
- STREETCARS
- EATING
- GERMANY
- POLICE
- BANNERS
- GERMANS
- CAMERA OPERATORS
- DOCTORS
- SIGNS/POSTERS
- HARVESTS
- FARMERS/FARMING
- BRYAN, JULIEN
- CROWDS
Places
- Dresden, Germany
- Heidelberg, Germany
- Neustadt, Germany
- Berlin, Germany
Genre
- Film
- Unedited.