Women at marketplace

Identifier
irn1001384
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1995.150.1
  • RG-60.3437
Dates
1 Jan 1937 - 31 Dec 1937
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Silent
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

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

VAR shots of Nuremberg marketplace. Women selling wares, eating soup, weighing large squash. Flower stall, vendor talks to girls, baskets of flowers. In Dinkelsbuehl, two older men with sideburns, CUs, loading grain with rope. Tudor buildings with window boxes, quaint. LS, courtyard, aerial shot of rooftops in Dinkelsbuehl, balconies with flowers, aerial shot of street in village. In Nuremberg, sign: "Adolf Hitler Platz". EXT, wall of building with painting and German inscription. At market, CU vendor talking.

Note(s)

  • For the beginning of this reel (FEB 7127), see Story 2670 on Film ID 952. The Library of Congress slate introducing this tape (953) is incorrect. This segment is from the FEB 7127 reel. Additional photographs are available in the USHMM Photo Archives.

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