German industry, Duesseldorf, Berlin. Famous kindergarten. Farming. Cologne
Creator(s)
- Julien H. Bryan (Director)
- Julien H. Bryan (Camera Operator)
- Library of Congress - Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division (MBRS)
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
BP fuel truck on Tempelhof airfield in Berlin. Lufthansa plane "Obersalzburg". Crowd of German civilians. Planes flying above. "Stanavo" fuel truck. Side view of plane named "Eduard Dost..." "Shell" fuel truck. 00:11:09 Scenes driving on Autobahn between Cologne and Dusseldorf, going under bridges, signs reading "Tankstelle" and "Dusseldorf". 00:12:15 Germans at outdoor fair/industrial exhibition in Dusseldorf, crowd. Sign, "Gepaeck-Abgabe." 00:12:41 Street scene in Berlin, tram, well-dressed people. Loeser and Wolff shop on corner. News sellers with "Berlin Illustrierte" late edition: "Jap attack on Shanghai in full swing" and "Der Angriff." Street signs: "Unter den Linden" and "Wilhelmstrasse". 00:14:16 INTs, Leica camera factory in Wetzlar. Lunchbreak, workers. 00:15:52 In Berlin, at the historic Pestalozzi Froebel Haus: nurses and baby care. Childcare center, lines of cots with children sleeping, some children on potties in BG. Children gardening. EXT, house, young women on stairs with letters. 00:17:24 Farm scene: plowing, horses, farmer. Car driving on unpaved road, woman with baby carriage. 00:18:41 In Eisenach: "Lutherhaus" and "Lutherkeller" painted on building. CU sign: "Bach Museum." (J.S. Bach was born in Eisenach). MS, EXT Bach house and museum. 00:19:52 Landscape with Wartburg castle in BG. Brief shot of more plowing. 00:20:34 Large cathedral in Cologne, Germany. Nazi marching band marches, banner, civilian men and women. 00:21:25 KdF tour, gather at harbor to board "Hindenburg" steamer on Rhine. Cologne cathedral spires in BG. FG, townspeople on gangplank.
Note(s)
Additional photographs are available in the USHMM Photo Archives.
Subjects
- CROWDS
- NURSES
- RHINE RIVER
- NEWSPAPERS
- STREETCARS
- AUTOMOBILES
- WOMEN
- SHIPS
- TRUCKS
- NAZI PARTY
- WORKERS
- BRYAN, JULIEN
- AIRPORTS
- SIGNS/POSTERS
- GERMANS
- FACTORIES
- BABIES
- MUSEUMS
- CHURCHES
- CHILDREN
- AIRPLANES
- KDF (KRAFT DURCH FREUDE)
- SHOPS
- BANDS
- STREETS
- GERMANY
- FARMERS/FARMING
- CIVILIANS
- AUTOBAHN
- FAIRS
Places
- Cologne, Germany
- Dusseldorf, Germany
- Eisenach, Germany
- Berlin, Germany
Genre
- Film
- Unedited.