Farming in central Poland
Creator(s)
- Sam Bryan and International Film Foundation
- Julien H. Bryan (Director)
- Julien H. Bryan (Producer)
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
MLS, a farming family in the field, in the BG a Gothic looking church. The peasant women turns and takes a break from gathering to look at the camera. A man in traditional Polish costume herds cows in the pasture. Older man using oxen to run a grain threshing machine. Quick cut to the village people in church (ends abruptly).
Note(s)
Detailed preservation notes from the film lab are available in Film and Video department files. Additional photographs are available in the USHMM Photo Archives.
Julien Hequembourg Bryan (1899-1974) was an American documentarian and filmmaker. 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. He was in Warsaw within days of Germany's invasion of Poland in September 1939 and remained throughout the German siege of the city, filming and photographing what would become America's first cinematic glimpse of the start of WWII.
Subjects
- CHURCHES
- BRYAN, JULIEN
- FARMERS/FARMING
- RELIGIOUS SERVICES
- PEASANTS
- VILLAGES
- WOMEN
- POLAND
- POLES
- MACHINERY
- COWS
Places
- , Poland
Genre
- Film
- Outtakes.