Nazi rally, 1937 - Hitler, Himmler, Reichsarbeitsdienst parade; Anti-Bolshevik exhibit crowds; Berlin streets crowded for Mussolini visit.
Creator(s)
- Sam Bryan and International Film Foundation
- 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
Nazi party rally at Nuremberg, pan of stadium, regiments already assembled on the field; more still entering, an injured man is carried away on a stretcher. 01:06:45:00 Some MCUs on the young soldiers on the field, some look back at the camera, all are chewing gum--the bare-chested regiment-- Nazi "beefcake". MCU of the beefcake singing in unison. Cut to the young women assembled in another area of the field. VS of flags waving; military milling about the stadium. Scenes outside of the Anti-Bolshevik Exhibit (Antibolschevistische Ausstellung); uniformed Nazis with armbands line up to enter a building, several civilians enter as well (men and women). Officers push back some of the crowds-the lines are extremely long. The crowds calmly move back, many of the women are smiling. 01:09:03:00 On the occasion of Mussolini's visit to Berlin, crowds wait in the streets; a truck full of young men, the sign painted on the truck reads: BRAUHAUS NURNBERG. Motorcade through the streets begins, all are lining up to see the men of the hour who will soon arrive, waving and saluting the crowds, camera tracks Hitler's car in MLS. The shot and the reel end as Hitler rides out of frame at END.
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. This entire reel contains deep emulsion scratches, also known as "wavy positive scribe" that detract from the viewing of this print, and were done to prevent people from copying the footage without permission. Similar material exists in the Julien Bryan Collection at the Library of Congress. Bryan filmed in Germany in 1937 for the March of Time, but retained certain material and rights. He donated this part of the collection to the Library of Congress. Some film shot at the same time appears in the March of Time release, "Inside Nazi Germany." See Raymond Fielding's chapter on this title, in the book "The March of Time 1935-1951."
Subjects
- RAD (GERMAN LABOR SERVICE)
- HIMMLER, HEINRICH
- SS (SCHUTZSTAFFEL)
- STADIUMS
- UNIFORMS
- CROWDS
- NAZI OFFICIALS
- NUREMBERG RALLIES
- ART
- GERMANY
- BRYAN, JULIEN
- SOLDIERS/MILITARY
- RALLIES
- SOLDIERS/MILITARY (GERMAN)
- HITLER, ADOLF
- NAZI PARTY
Places
- Munich, Germany
- Berlin, Germany
- Nuremberg, Germany
Genre
- Outtakes.
- Film