Hand-colored glass slide
Extent and Medium
overall: Height: 3.200 inches (8.128 cm) | Width: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm)
Creator(s)
- Julien H. Bryan (Photographer)
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 Soviet Union. 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 Kraków 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 within days of Germany's invasion of Poland in Sept. 1939 and remained throughout the German siege of the city, photographing and filming what would become America's first cinematic glimpse of the start of World War II. 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.
Archival History
The lantern slide was acquired by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2003.
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Julien Bryan Archive
Scope and Content
Bridge in Warsaw 1939 with smoke rising in the distance.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Handcolored glass lantern slide; image shows extreme wide view of bridge, smoke rising in the distance. Inscribed with "EDWARD VAN ALTENA/71-79 W. 45TH ST. N.Y.C." on mat on either side.
Genre
- Photographs
- Object