Nazi Germany outtakes: Nuremberg Rally, Army Day; Cologne Cathedral; trains
Creator(s)
- Julien H. Bryan (Camera Operator)
- Julien H. Bryan (Director)
- Sam Bryan and International Film Foundation
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
Highlights of this reel of decomposed footage include: Army Day at Nuremberg Nazi Party rally; Cologne cathedral; night time stadium performances in Nuremberg; army cook preparing food for the crowds; youth flight club launching a glider; scenes of the Obersalzburg and its passengers on an airstrip; trains moving through the countryside.
Note(s)
This reel of footage was severely compromised and decomposed. There is severe emulsion loss which makes it difficult to view these images clearly. The nitrate reel from which this video transfer was made has to be destroyed. This reel consists of a series of outtakes of footage shot in Nazi Germany, most of which is available through USHMM and through the Library of Congress. 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." Detailed preservation notes from the film lab are available in Film and Video department files. Additional photographs are available in the USHMM Photo Archives.
Subjects
- UNIFORMS
- YOUTH GROUPS
- NUREMBERG RALLIES
- SOLDIERS/MILITARY (GERMAN)
- HITLER YOUTH
- SOLDIERS/MILITARY (ITALIAN)
- BRYAN, JULIEN
- GERMANS
- AIRPLANES
- GERMANY
- TRAINS
- SOLDIERS/MILITARY
Places
- Nuremberg, Germany
- Cologne, Germany
Genre
- Outtakes.
- Film