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  1. Luftwaffe officers & Goering's staff tour Mt. Vesuvius & Pompeii

    Scenes of Mt. Vesuvius and ruins of Pompeii in Italy with uniformed Luftwaffe men. Men in civilian clothes include at least 3 Luftwaffe staff or officers closely associated with Goering (they also appear in Film IDs 2548 and 2549): Fritz Goernnert in lederhosen; wavy-haired man in knickers who may be Kattengel; dark-haired man seen in target practice scenes; and the man with dark-rimmed spectacles and photo camera (Eitel Lange, the personal stills photographer for Hermann Goering, who joined Goering's staff in the summer of 1940). 01:01:02 WS with volcano. Priest in long black frock scamper...

  2. Georgia, Caucasus Mountains, circa 1933

    Peasants baking bread, harvesting grain, going about their daily lives in this rural, mountainous region. This footage is stunning. Julien Bryan himself is featured in this footage. He traveled at this time with the noted anthropologist Maurice Hindus and a group of Princeton University students on a journey through Russian villages. Several of the students can also be seen in this sequence. They traveled with local guides, with horses and mules through the mountains. VS of their local guides, the mountains, children and women in the villages, sifting grain and baking flatbread, local men h...

  3. Industry in Poland, mining in Upper Silesia

    LS of a zinc mine/refinery, labeled in Julien Bryan's original notes as "Catowicz, Silesia - Giesche Zinc Mine." MS, workers in uniform, wearing caps, masks around their necks, on break outside the refinery. VS of the mine and refinery, the machinery in operation inside the refinery: ovens, molten metals, the workers stoking the furnaces, etc. VS, of women sorting pieces of zinc on a conveyor belt before processing. Good shots of quick, nimble fingers at work, several CUs of their hands.

  4. German siege of Warsaw, Poland, Sept. 1939

    Poignant shot of two little boys, one little girl, and one woman with her head bandaged holding an infant in her arms sitting on the street surrounded by rubble, the children are barefoot, and they look frightened and confused. This scene was shot in the immediate aftermath of a German air attack over Warsaw. MLS the two young boys dragging a chair, down the street full of rubble. 01:05:48:22: MS residents milling about on the street, sitting on chairs, surrounded by the few belongings they have left- several young women, one man. Clear shot of more destruction at 01:05:55:29 man in suit ro...

  5. Warsaw and Danzig, Poland, destruction and rebuilding circa 1946

    Bombed out multi-story YMCA building in Warsaw, Poland. Several workers chip away at the concrete structure, others collect and stack bricks from the rubble. Another worker examines window frames for damage. (This footage likely dates to 1946 - see notes section for further information). MS, low angle, a man and a woman walk down a bombed out street in Warsaw, toward the camera, snow covers the ground. VS of the destruction in the city, civilians mill about the streets, with torn, threadbare clothing, there are some Polish military personnel in these shots as well. Poles board a street car,...

  6. Displaced persons board ship in Bremerhaven, Germany to relocate to the United States

    Bremerhaven, Germany at the port of embarkation. US military personnel mill about, arranging signs, helping DPs with luggage, guiding the refugees through this stage of the emigration process. They are on their way to the United States, a large painted banner on the docks reads: "Welcome to the first DP Emigrants to the US, Bremerhaven Port of Embarkation" Refugees board the ship (the General Wm. M. Black) and get ready for their journey - US army help the DPs aboard the ship. Everyone seems very happy, even the children, some have looks of bewilderment on their faces. All are in overcoats,...

  7. Kaufbeuren Institution

    "Agfa 1941" appears on the film leader. Young patients in a room who manifest signs of being severely mentally disturbed and/or disabled. Close up of a girl rocking back and forth and a boy repeatedly sticking out his tongue. Older patients are also present. Nurses attend to a crying female patient. A shot of an older man in what might be a different room. Patients in beds; the camera pans down to show the malformed and very thin legs of one of the patients. More than one of the patients is in a straightjacket. Some of the patients are shown eating. A couple of the patients talk animatedly;...

  8. Sightseeing in Paris; German officers

    More tourist-y views of Paris streets, including Eiffel Tower and the obelisk in the Place de la Concorde. The camera sometimes focuses on individuals, such as the woman seen before, the elderly man, and the German officer leading the map meeting with the glasses (in Story 4414). 01:09:55 SEQ: German with dark-rimmed glasses with three French women (not seen before). Street scenes, signs, buses, pedestrians and German soldier, cars, "Café de la Paix" restaurant on corner. Policeman looks directly into camera briefly. Man with glasses in previous map scene walks across the city streets with ...

  9. Farming in central Poland

    Man herds cows, man herds sheep, a woman helps. MS of a young boy and girl in traditional dress, posing in the field, each holds a stick used for herding the animals. They smile shyly for the camera. Other children play in the field, run down a hillside. MCU of the couple. Cut to a country road, man drives a horse drawn carriage loaded with hay; a woman walks along the road. Several shots of the road, a lake, and thatched roof house.

  10. Country life in Zakopane, Poland 1936

    Scenes of country life in Zakopane, Poland, staged for the camera. Peasants cutting bread and vegetables, interior of a house, woman cooking, weaving, man enters the house and makes the sign of the cross, all are in traditional folk dress. VS, inside a church, CUs of icons. The subject shifts to a different scene: MLS, following a man in the woods, out to hunt birds with his rifle over his shoulder, camera pans up to bird's nest. A woman meets him under the tree- the man talks to her about a gun as they sit on a bench under a tree, there is a religious icon hanging on the tree. The couple f...

  11. Kaufbeuren institution

    Men and women, presumably patients, perform agricultural tasks such as cutting and stacking hay in a field, blacksmithing, gardening, tending to livestock (ducks, pigs, beehives, others). This section opens with landscape scenes and milk being delivered to the institution on a donkey cart. Signs affixed to a tree identify the Birkenried and Kaufbeuren asylums. There are occasional close-ups of the animals.

  12. Zinc refinery in Katowice, Poland, circa 1936

    Scenes from the Giesche Zinc mine and refinery in Katowice, Poland, circa 1936. VS, INT near the furnaces, women sorting ore before it is smelted, the conveyor belt from the mine shaft, the molten ore being poured into molds. 01:02:06 Workers' jackets hanging from the ceiling of the factory near the light fixtures. EXT, LS, workers exiting the factory, some get on their bicycles others leave on foot. Many workers are young, and smile for the camera. INT, workers filling the molds used for the molten zinc ore. EXT, LS of the countryside in south central Poland. VS of the rural village and th...

  13. Scenes from the port city of Gdynia

    Workmen hauling lumber around a lumber yard. Furniture, bundles of wooden café style chairs loaded into crates. A women in a fur coat counts some packages or bundles on the ground. Man in uniform observes them. Crane with the bundle of chairs. Back to the lumberyard, several workmen moving and hauling wood around the yard. Crane comes down from the deck of a ship.

  14. Warsaw ruins

    Horse with cart in street, snow-covered ruins of Warsaw ghetto. Pan, WS. Various views.

  15. Jeno Klein postcards

    The Jeno Klein postcards consists of three postcards writen by Jeno Klein (maiden name Szerena Reich), addressed to Tibor Klein, written two days before and on the day of deportation from Budapest (23 Beniczky Street, Ujpest), in July 1944.

  16. Airship construction

    Airship construction. Workers gather in circle.

  17. Animated maps and titles for the film "Poland - the Country and the People"

    An animated map of Poland, designed by Philip Stapp. Features the outline of the country of Poland, a drawing of a King with a sceptor, an indication of the location of Krakow with an accompanying image of the city, and a coat of arms-style sign in the middle of the map of Poland that reads: Union of Poland-Lithuania and Ruthenia. From Julien Bryan's film "Poland the Country and the People" released in 1948, shot 1936-1937.

  18. Staged scenes of domestic life and folk dancing in the region of Katowice

    Staged scenes inside a peasant couple's home. Women cooking apples, cutting bread, men eating. All are wearing traditional Polish peasant dress. VS of men and women performing folk dances, mainly circle dances. These shots are alternately over and under cranked, making the actions of the dancers exaggeratedly slow or fast. From Julien Bryan's film "Poland the Country and the People" released in 1948, shot 1936-1937.

  19. Hitler's butler's home movies; Oswald Mosley, BUF in London

    1938 color home movies of Kannenberg family in Germany. Two young girls (nieces) with Arthur Kannenberg and shiny black Mercedes flying small swastika. Intertitle: "Unser Vater an seinem 73.ten Geburtstag (Our father on his 73rd birthday) 21.6.38." Grandfather, grandmother, 3 young girls bring flowers. Family scenes, including storefront "Villa Luise." [1944 police document identifies Inger Poulsen of Elbingerode, niece of "Hausintendant Kannenberg", born 5 March 1923 in Kopenhagen, Denmark] 01:02:26 "Corporate Films Ltd. Present" "East London Blackshirt Rally" "Victoria Park 7th. June 1936...

  20. Floral patterned crocheted doily given to a Jewish Hungarian woman by a friend

    White crocheted doily made for Berta Weisz by a friend in her home town, Nyzhni Vorota (in Yiddish, Veretski), Czechoslovakia (now Ukraine), which was annexed by Hungary in May 1939. In August 1941, Berta, 22, her husband Samuel, their infant son Moshe Tomas, and her brother Jonas were expelled because they were Jewish. They were sent to the Kamenez-Podolsk ghetto. They escaped and fled to Budapest. On February 24, 1943, Berta’s husband and brother were shot by the Hungarian Gestapo in Hidegseg, Hungary. Berta, who was pregnant, had false papers as a Christian and returned to her mother Reg...