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Polish refugee children

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.324.1 | RG Number: RG-60.2141 | Film ID: 2268

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    Polish refugee children
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    Description
    Title: "P.I.C. Films, Inc. Presents: Children in Refuge" "A film dedicated to children who suffer because of war"

    American children in classroom. Ruins in Warsaw (Julien Bryan footage from "Siege" of Warsaw in 1939). Relief packages for Polish children. National War Fund. Polish War Relief. American children reading thank you letters from Polish children. Scenes from refugee camps in Iran, Palestine, South Africa, Kenya, military school in Scotland. Unique shots include footage of emaciated boys in tattered clothing (at 01:11:13 and 01:11:27). These are Polish children deported to the Soviet Union during World War II.
    Film Title
    Children in Refuge
    Duration
    00:11:57
    Date
    Event:  1939-1944
    Production:  Approximately 1944
    Locale
    Iran
    Kenya
    Palestine
    Scotland
    South Africa
    Warsaw, Poland
    United States
    Credit
    Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Polish Institute and Sikorski Museum
    Contributor
    Director: Eugene Cenkalski
    Writer: Joseph Wittlin
    Producer: P.I.C. Films, Inc. (Polish Information Center, NY)
    Camera Operator: E. F. Thompson
    Camera Operator: Julien H. Bryan
    Biography
    Eugene Cenkalski was a screenwriter and director. During the war, Cenkalski worked for the Polish government in England and the United States, producing and editing war film for Poland. After the war, he and his wife Christina settled In Lodz and collaborated on rebuilding the Polish film industry. https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/1209418.pdf
    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.

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Genre/Form
    Documentary.
    B&W / Color
    Black & White
    Image Quality
    Good
    Time Code
    01:00:00:00 to 01:11:57:00
    Film Format
    • Master
    • Master 2268 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Master 2268 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Master 2268 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Master 2268 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
    • Preservation
    • Preservation 2268 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Preservation 2268 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Preservation 2268 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Preservation 2268 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    This archival media can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations.
    Copyright
    Polish Institute and Sikorski Museum
    Conditions on Use
    For permission to reproduce and use this footage, contact the Film Archives of the Polish Institute and Sikorski Museum at film.archive@pism.co.uk.

    Keywords & Subjects

    Administrative Notes

    Film Provenance
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this footage from the Imperial War Museum in London in 1999.
    Note
    Musical score by:
    Wlyadyslaw Eiger

    Photographed by:
    E. Francis Thompson (USA)
    Julien Bryan (Poland)
    British Army Film Unit (Kenya)
    Polish Army Film Unit (Egypt and Scotland)
    Pathe News (Persia and South Africa)

    Many scenes already exist on Film ID 2267, Stories RG-60.2137, 2138, 2139, 2140.

    For more information about the Polish Information Center (New York), see the collection of records at the Hoover Institution, located online at http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt2k4016kh/admin/#scopecontent-1.7.4.
    Copied From
    35mm; b/w
    Film Source
    Imperial War Museums
    File Number
    Legacy Database File: 1672
    Source Archive Number: SIK 182
    Record last modified:
    2024-02-21 08:00:12
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