Overview
- Description
- German footage with Portuguese commentary. German Labor Corps marching through streets. Sign: "ADOLF HITLER IST DEUTCHLAND." Band, officers. Ceremony- turning square into "ADOLF HITLER PLATZ". AV, shot from plane of bombed out areas. Polish conscripts, Polish POWs along road marching in a long line, they march pass peasants. VS, city and country scenes, small tank, truck passing by.
- Film Title
-
Siege of Warsaw
- Duration
- 00:03:22
- Date
-
Event:
1939
Production: 1939
- Locale
-
Warsaw,
Poland
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Polish Institute and Sikorski Museum
- Contributor
-
Director:
Julien H. Bryan
- Biography
-
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
- Silent
- Genre/Form
- Outtakes.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Good
- Time Code
- 01:09:31:00 to 01:12:53:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 2267 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 2267 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 2267 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 2267 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large- Preservation
Preservation 2267 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2267 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2267 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2267 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
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- 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.
- Copyright Holder
- Polish Institute and Sikorski Museum
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this footage from the Imperial War Museum in London in 1999.
- Copied From
- 35mm; b/w
- Film Source
- Imperial War Museums
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 1660
Source Archive Number: SIK 195 R3 - Special Collection
-
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 08:03:21
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