Construction, BDM, German children, flying club
Creator(s)
- Library of Congress - Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division (MBRS)
- Julien H. Bryan (Director)
- 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
City of Berlin. Construction crew at work, pouring cement. City view, with radio tower. 00:17:02 "Reichskrafts" sign on building. Farm scenes. BDM (Bund Deutsche Maedel) girls with their arm badges, milking goat. Blond girl cutting bread for two children. CU of children at tables, eating, outdoors. INT, Kindergarten. Children painting, washing dishes. 00:19:51 Children go off together with school satchels on their backs in Essen, arms around each others' shoulders, various combinations of boys, girls. Smokestacks, city in BG, Krupp factory. 00:21:23 Flying club, gliders, young men carry glider (shot near Trebbin, a small city south of Berlin). Landscape with hills, men eating, sitting on the ground. Glider with swastika in BG. 00:22:40 Children's party in Weimar, long table outdoors, decorated with swastikas. Party hats, sunlight. 00:24:05 Performance at night in Berlin stadium, bodies in white marching in lines, stopping as others continue, forming vast eagle and swastika on the field. 00:25:43 WS of church tower in Essen, factories in BG, train passes. CU, smokestacks. Quick shots of Flying club, BDM girls, factory men in fields.
Note(s)
Library of Congress film-to-video transfer is wrong speed. Action is sometimes too slow and sometimes too fast. Additional photographs are available in the USHMM Photo Archives.
Subjects
- GERMANY
- BDM (LEAGUE OF GERMAN GIRLS)
- EATING
- FACTORIES (KRUPP)
- CONSTRUCTION
- FARMERS/FARMING
- BRYAN, JULIEN
- WOMEN
- NIGHT
- SWASTIKAS
- CHURCHES
- FACTORIES
- STADIUMS
- GERMANS
- CHILDREN
Places
- Weimar, Germany
- Berlin, Germany
- Essen, Germany
Genre
- Unedited.
- Film