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  1. Destroyed Gdansk

    Reel 3A Winter 1945/1946 or 1946/1947 In Gdansk (Danzig), destruction to buildings along the river in the city, reflection in the water. Building EXTs with German-language signs (iron factory, restaurant, etc). [VQ- still frames in places where there are technical problems from Bryan's camera and poor processing.] Cut to elder couple walking toward camera among ruins. Three men digging in a pile of bricks. Repeat of earlier two sequences in black and white. August-September 1958 Village scenes (poor image color and quality) in Poland, geese in water, tractor and farming. Winter 1945/1946 or...

  2. Georgia, Caucasus Mountains, circa 1933

    Horseback riding in mountains, a group of men and women together at a table on a terrace, eating. LS of country home, nurses seated at a table on the terrace, examining the woman, they ask her questions, write down her responses, etc. They seem to be bourgeoisie on vacation in the mountains. ** This reel has an incorrect title, because the can for this reel was mislabeled; this is actually footage from the early 1930s, shot in Georgia, in the Caucasus Mountains.

  3. Touring Venice and Rome

    Family footage of the Herz family vacation in Europe in 1937. Footage shows images of Jewish-American life before World War II with its European roots. Herz family in Venice, on gondola. CUs, Jacob Herz, gondolier. Bridges in Venice. Ruins in countryside. 01:10:53 Tourist shots of the Coliseum in Rome and other sights. Statues, beach, tents, ruins, sights in Rome.

  4. Amusement park

    Windows of houses. Street sign: "Theodor von der Pfordten Str." Amusement area, building: "Im Gelsheimer Krug". Train trolley, Germans eating. Castle in mountains, train in FG, river, fast train, mountainside.

  5. BDM

    BDM women with flowers at village house, EXT. 01:15:36 Automobile 01:15:38 BDM women on steps of house, gardening. Girls marching on country road, picking plums. Girls eating, performing skit, writing, eating, marching.

  6. Edward Smigly-Rydz becomes Field Marshall 1936

    Scenes in Warsaw as General Smigly-Rydz becomes Field Marshal of Poland. The dignitaries arrive at the parade review stand. Press camera corps photograph the event, which includes officials shaking hands, Smigly-Rydz close-ups, marching soldiers, and troop reviews. Massive crowds of bystanders. 01:20:44 A woman sells Polish flags with the eagle crest insignia. 01:21:03 CU profile of Smigly-Rydz flanked by two Catholic officials, including Cardinal Hlond, whose antisemitic pronouncements at the time fueled longstanding anti-Jewish attitudes among Polish Catholics (see more of Hlond in RG-60....

  7. Airship construction

    Scientists/engineers in airship/Zeppelin hangar, working, massive steel. INT, airship. CUs, workers' shoes. Elevator. Men working.

  8. Krakow's Jewish quarter: shops, merchants

    MCU, street corner of the Jewish quarter in Krakow, a women in contemporary dress and three Jewish men peek out from behind the shoulder of a man with his back to the camera. Sign across the street for a merchant's shop: "SALOMON DIAMANT". Several shots of Jewish men in orthodox garb, with beards, standing on street corners talking and suspiciously watching the camera, one covers his face, and they move along.

  9. Cemetery and church in postwar Warsaw

    Reel 3A Cemetery, tombstones. Women placing flowers and candles at graves. MS, cemetery with men, women, and children. Wooden crosses flanked with miniature Polish flags and flowers. Official military burial with flag-draped coffins, Polish soldiers, wooden crosses/wreaths, and a priest. Cut to Catholic church in the ruins of Warsaw. Poles exit and enter through an underground entrance marked in Polish with "Wejscie do Kosciola"[the entrance to the church] (Photo Archives W/S 46323). MS, Warsaw street scenes in ruins.

  10. Train travel in southeastern Poland 1936

    TRIMS featuring a train that has stopped at an unknown station in Poland, the train picks up several passengers: men, women, and children, and continues along the tracks slowly out of the station. CUs of passengers in the train cars, LS of a conductor at the edge of the train platform monitoring the loading and unloading of passengers. There are two trims that feature signs along the platform which could aid in identification of the exact location, but they are in the BG of the shot, and not completely legible. The first trims shows a MS of the train, attached to electric cables pulling int...

  11. Bryan locates individuals he filmed during the German siege of Warsaw

    Reel 7A. Colorful flowers. Mother sitting with children on a park bench in Warsaw. New housing in Warsaw. Reconstruction. Steel mill. Workers leave mill through gates. Cranes at work, INT coal burning. INTs, Julien Bryan with Jozefa Drzewowska (age 72), photographed clasping her hands in prayer in 1939 and used on the cover of "Siege" (Photo Archives W/S 47403). Jozefa's daughter and grandchildren. Julien Bryan with Apolonia and village children distributing contents of a CARE package. Apolonia Wiktorzak was photographed in 1939 holding a loaf of bread, now 65 years old (Photo Archives W/S ...

  12. Gymnasium Langenhagen project collection.

    Consists of transcripts of interviews with Holocaust survivors in Paris, June 9-15, 2002, done by a class of German high school students from the Gymnasiums Langenhagen (Langenhagen, Germany).

  13. Scenes in a market square in Krakow

    A market scene: old peasant women sitting on the ground, selling their wares, a pushcart full of live geese passing by, VS of merchants and consumers at the open-air market in a cobblestoned square in Krakow, circa 1937. A man in a uniform (Polish army) holding and petting a hen, followed by VS of women in the market. From Julien Bryan's film "Poland the Country and the People" released in 1948, shot 1936-1937.

  14. Scenes of Paris before German occupation

    Title: "PARIS. Une realization de la Cinematheque Kodascope" Titles identifying sites of interest: Place de la Republique, La Porte Saint Martin, L'avenue de l'Opera, La colonne Vendome, etc., followed by shots of the named spot, street scenes, traffic. 01:09:29 La Basilique du Sacre Coeur (prominent in Film ID 2720). Le Pont Neuf, water, bridge.

  15. Kaufbeuren Institution

    Men at various tasks outside the Kaufbeuren Institution. Landscape and livestock shots; fruit on trees. The season is spring or summer. An airplane flies over the building. A man in a white coat enters the frame, picks up a tree limb and hands it to a patient, who poses with the limb for the camera. Scenes inside the building, including patients in beds. They appear to be very ill and one of the men is naked.

  16. Death of Fritz Todt

    List of "Kriegsberichter": Dr. Aletan, Blenck, Buhlmann, Dressler, Elton, Ertl, Frentz, Frickhoeffer, Garms, Gessl, Grund, Hapke, Hardacker, Hornschu, Jacobi, Koenig, Komor, Lehmann, Mahla, Olesko, Onasch, v. Reibnitz, Sakeus, Schmidmeier, Alfred Scholz, Hans Scholz, Schwennicke, Thoemmes, Wenig. Tribute to Dr. Fritz Todt and the works of the Organisation Todt, including construction of the Autobahn and the Westwall. Todt walks with other officials. He hands out shovels to workers, who march with the shovels over their shoulders. The narrator states that construction of the Autobahn began i...

  17. Rebuilding Poland

    LS, building, pedestrians in FG, church spires, scaffolding.

  18. Nazi Germany trims: HJ, propaganda

    TRIMS. Books/programs in shop window, including "Mein Kampf", atlas. 01:03:07 HJ boys and motorcycles, eating. Uniforms/gear on street. Eating, look at NS propaganda, postcards with Hitler at street vendor, eating. CUs, boots. Bread. Reading, bicycles, gear, band equipment, uniforms with swastika armbands, eating, trombone, reading paper. Note: J.Bryan's film lecture, "Germany 1937," identifies this location as Friedrichshafen, as boys returned from the Nuremberg Party Congress.

  19. German siege of Warsaw, Sept. 1939

    Warsaw, Poland 1939: Refugees on the streets of Warsaw, VS of people in the immediate aftermath of a German air raid. CU: a young woman is very uncomfortable with the camera on her, she holds her hand to her face, her expression is between a smile and despair, she is trying to remain composed for the camera. MS, a woman carries a bundle of all of her belongings wrapped in a blanket on her back as she flees from her neighborhood on the outskirts of Warsaw's city center that has been under attack by the Germans. 01:12:17: Dead horse, covered in lime, being dragged from the middle of the stree...

  20. Train

    Train moves towards and then past the camera.