Eleanor Roosevelt in Holland
Creator(s)
- Julien H. Bryan (Camera Operator)
- 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
Procession of automobiles arrives at church, spectators line the streets. Women greet officials, shake hands. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt in a flowered hat is welcomed by state officials. INTs of church, Mrs. Roosevelt speaking from podium, clergy seated in formal dress for the official visit. Mrs. Roosevelt exiting church with a bouquet of flowers and officials. CUs, spectators welcoming Mrs. Roosevelt. Procession of priests and academics. Horses with buggy, jovial elderly man. CU, woman with camera.
Note(s)
It is possible that this clip was shot by Julien Bryan for the March of Time film called "My Trip Abroad" (1951) for the Economic Cooperation Administration (ECA). As a working newspaper columnist, Eleanor Roosevelt travelled to seven European countries (Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Holland, France, and England) in the summer of 1950 to see for herself what progress had been made in rebuilding their economies after World War II with the help of the Marshall Plan. The ten minute film shows that much progress has been made but also discovers that there are some problems that need to be addressed. ECA was the administrative agency of the European Recovery Program/Marshall Plan. See also Story RG-60.4646, Film ID 3028 for brief related sequence.
Subjects
- FLAGS (AMERICAN)
- CROWDS
- WOMEN
- ROOSEVELT, ELEANOR
- CHURCHES
- CLERGY
- CEREMONIES
- AUTOMOBILES
- BRYAN, JULIEN
Places
- , Netherlands
Genre
- Unedited.
- Film