Nazi Germany trims: Leica factory, ferry, Pestalozzi Froebel Kindergarten, airplanes, peasants, exhibitions, nursery, tobacco, anti-Jewish signs, Goldschmidt school

Identifier
irn1003999
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2003.214
  • RG-60.4489
Dates
1 Jan 1937 - 31 Dec 1937
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Silent
Source
EHRI Partner

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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

TRIMS. INTs, Leica factory, various shots. 01:00:43 Fountain at industry exhibition. Crowds looking at exhibitions, including "Das Weisse Gold," "Glaswolle," yarn/textiles, boots, "Continental" tires, "Sicherheits-Glas." Man standing next to large machine. 01:02:01 Small town in Germany. LS, Leica factory, INTs. CUs, lens, laborers, on lunch break, polishing, inserting film into camera. 01:04:01 HAS, LS, German village, cathedral spires, train in FG. 01:04:09 LS, factory, smokestacks. 01:04:18 Laborers on dirt mound with pick axes and sledgehammers. CU, "Krupp" insignia. Locomotive, rail lines. 01:05:09 Hang-gliding. 01:05:16 Bicycling, city traffic. 01:05:18 Man drinking Coca-Cola. 01:05:20 Crowd entering ferry, pan up to bridge. 01:05:24 Leica factory. 01:05:45 "Zur Jugendherbergs Ausstellung" sign. "Gepaeck-Abgabe" sign. 01:05:54 Children at party, close shots. 01:05:57 Germans gathered on street, looking off screen. 01:06:06 Children eating, kindergarten. 01:06:11 Leica factory, various shots, INTs, workers, microscopes, lenses. 01:07:12 Pestalozzi Froebel Haus Kindergarten: children playing with wooden toys. 01:07:20 Horse and carriage, EXT palace (Potsdam?), tourists in FG, nuns. 01:07:45 Cathedral, pedestrian traffic, automobiles, bus. "Luther-Haus" civilians. Scenic views of the river. LSs, EXTs buildings. 01:08:24 Hang gliding. 01:08:48 Airplanes, one says "Gustav Leffers", men cleaning EXT, wings. 01:09:03 Countryside, model village, German civilians walking. 01:09:28 BDM girls with flowers, gardening. 01:09:38 Peasant farming, German family, hay. 01:10:09 [water damage to film] Queue for anti-Bolshevik exhibition. Pan, WS, building, sign across top of building, crowds lined up. 01:10:57 INT, degenerate art exhibition, DaDa inscription. Sign on EXT of building: "Entartete Kunst." Visitors entering and exiting the building. CUs, INTs, art, patrons, "Nehmen Sie Dada Ernst" on wall. Art, caricatures. 01:12:27 BDM girls, walking on country road with flag, various shots, resting, eating from canteens, reading. 01:13:32 Boat in river. 01:13:39 LS freight train, railroad tracks around mountainside. Vineyard. 01:14:18 Farming. 01:14:20 Drilling with sledgehammers on hill, smokestacks in BG. 01:15:05 Boat, LS, cathedral on riverbank. 01:15:12 Kayakers. 01:15:14 INTs, women take lessons for cooking, changing diapers, medicine. Women with kerchiefs looking over crib. 01:16:32 LS, town, houses, apartments, trees. 01:16:53 Family playing cricket. Baby in carriage. In yard, husband and wife gardening, picking flowers, hoeing. 01:17:25 Giant pipelines. Boys running in woods. Digging for pipeline, wheelbarrows, calisthenics. Geo-political lecture on hillside in Bavarian Alps. CUs, boys. Swimming. 01:19:18 Tobacco farming. 01:19:19 Autobahn, trucks. 01:19:37 Tobacco farming. 01:19:40 CU, "Juden sind hier unerwuenscht" sign appears in two views along road. 01:19:51 Totem pole. 01:19:53 Autobahn with trucks, high shots. 01:20:12 Castle ledge. 01:20:13 Cathedral 01:20:20 Marching band parading. MS, men & women marching in street, bridge in BG. "Niederlander..." sign. Crowd boarding "Hindenburg" ferry. Luggage, CUs. 01:21:07 Leica factory. 01:21:09 Sequence of Goldschmidt School, showing Margot at the blackboard writing Hebrew with her teacher, Margot Segall slides board up. Other familiar faces include Trudi Goldschmidt Thompson. Pupils at desks, recess outside, playing, entering school - MSs and CUs. Pupils at desks, Margot goes to chalkboard again.

Note(s)

  • Portions of film with water damage. Additional photographs are available in the USHMM Photo Archives. Similar material exists in the Julien Bryan Collection at the Library of Congress. See Film IDs 210 and 211. 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."

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