Warsaw city scenes; women with carriages; children
Creator(s)
- Julien H. Bryan (Director)
- Getty Images
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
There are burn-in time codes on the intermediate Betacam SP (Protection) video. There is no way to order a clean copy. CU, baby in carriage. HAS courtyard with people. Monument/building. Grand view of the city. Arches. People walking about. Aerial shot of pedestrians walking in a park. Women with babies, rocking carriages. CU children. Women talking. Group of boys cross street. Pan up to church/castle/palace tower. CU boys with hats. More children pass by.
Note(s)
01:04:45-01:07:01
For duplicate or similar footage transferred in 2004 from the original film, see Story 4000, Film ID 3004; Story 4118, Film ID 3005; Story 4152, Film ID 3013, and Story 4157, Film ID 3015. According to Julien Bryan's original notes, this reel was also known as JBP 2127A. Additional photographs are available in the USHMM Photo Archives.
Subjects
- POLAND
- STREETS
- CHILDREN
- CROWDS
- BABIES
- CHILDREN (JEWISH)
- BRYAN, JULIEN
- BUILDINGS
- WOMEN
- PARKS
- POLES
- PALACES/CASTLES
- CIVILIANS
- JEWISH LIFE (PRE-WAR)
- JEWS
- CHURCHES
Places
- Warsaw, Poland
Genre
- Unedited.
- Film