Industry along Rhine, production, farming, German trade show
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
Koblenz city scape from balcony. VLS down to long train, river, men. Statue of Wilhelm I with a horse, teenage boys at balcony, slow pan view. 00:02:10 Mostly empty courtyard of military fort, Festung Ehrenbreitstein. Workers on the banks of the Rhine River, LS, gray, crossing small wooden bridge. 00:03:05 Coca-Cola sign: "Hier stets eiskalt", boy drinking cola, CUs. Trucks, cars, CU "Krupp" on motor. Slow tug, long low boats rolling down river. 00:04:12 Scientist with microscope, lab with other workers, women and men in lab coats, making cameras, zoom lens, various MS and CU of workers at Leica factory in Wetzlar. 00:07:25 Long barge passing through bridge, barge going up river, hazy, bridge being pieced back together by tugs lining bridge, people crossing bridge. Near Cologne, rural scene with man. 00:09:26 Fisherman, hauling in fish, flipping onto floor of boat. Coal [factory in Koblenz]. Women picking fruit off low trees. CU, swastika patch on arm. Field of wheat stalks. 00:11:05 Three women in field picking flowers, walking down path. MS, back at flower room/warehouse. Milking goat. Power lines in LS. LS, hillside trees harvested/grown. "Kleine gaeste grosse Freude Melde Reine Freiplatzspende," various signs on Berlin city road with boy, girl. Men on bicycles. At riverside, cobblestone streets, cart/wagon, unloading logs. 00:13:50 INT trade show (Dusseldorf Exposition) of German goods, "BUNA" "Der Deutsche Kautschuk 1937" on wall. Businessmen inspect tires. Continental tires. "BUNA" Display of boots and gloves. Women at fabric display; various shots, demonstrations. "I.G. Farben industrie Aktiengesellschatt" on wall.
Note(s)
Additional photographs are available in the USHMM Photo Archives.
Subjects
- SCIENTISTS
- GERMANS
- CAMERAS
- INDUSTRY (GERMAN)
- FISH
- SWASTIKAS
- BRYAN, JULIEN
- FACTORIES
- RIVERS
- GERMANY
- RUBBER
- WOMEN
- BARGES
- FARMERS/FARMING
- RHINE RIVER
- BUNA RUBBER
- BRIDGES
- FACTORIES (I.G. FARBEN)
- SIGNS/POSTERS
- BOATS
Places
- Cologne, Germany
- Dusseldorf, Germany
- Berlin, Germany
- Koblenz, Germany
- Wetzlar, Germany
Genre
- Unedited.
- Film