Food; bazaar; vendors; shop; market

Identifier
irn1004017
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • RG-60.4520
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

HAS, INTs, crowds at food bazaar, probably in summertime. CUs, vendors, food and clothing for sale. 01:04:35 Quick sequence of designer sketching seen earlier on this Film ID 3038. Close shots of Russians, appear uneasy in front of camera. Stacks of sardines and canned fish. INTs, women, cashiers, children. CUs, serving/weighing caviar for sale. HAS, cafe. INTs, activity in shop, patrons, register, sales. 01:06:23 Quick, EXT, market woman picking over vegetables for sale. Pan down, chandelier in shop, HAS, INTs shop. 01:06:52 EXT, market, women with babushkas, child drinking. INT, woman tries on a new hat, food for sale, crowd gathers in front of shop counter, women shopping for clothing, hats, alterations. Caviar. Stacks of canned food. Man selling sausages. 01:09:30 Group of men/boys waiting, some looking directly into camera. Movie camera, cameraman (Bryan's crew?) filming performance in shop window. Women looking at wares, watches.

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