Danzig and Warsaw city scenes

Identifier
irn1002064
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1992.271.1
  • RG-60.0767
Dates
1 Jan 1936 - 31 Dec 1936
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

There are burn-in time codes on the intermediate Betacam SP (Protection) video. There is no way to order a clean copy. City scenes, traffic, pedestrians, shop fronts, kiosks with posters, gliders, horse-drawn wagons. LS town square. Pan, building. VS, MCUs, pedestrians. CU, signs in Polish. Policeman directing automobile traffic. Buses, bicycles, peddlers. Rain. People at storefront. Policemen conversing.

Note(s)

  • 01:07:15-01:12:02

  • For duplicate or similar footage transferred in 2004 from the original film, see Stories 4137 and 4138 on Film ID 3010. According to Julien Bryan's original notes, this reel was also known as JBP 2120A. Additional photographs are available in the USHMM Photo Archives.

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