Overview
- Description
- Warsaw, forced labor, Polish POWs, Royal Castle in flames. People walking past dead horses in the street, general destruction, fires (including a church), people running in the streets.
- Duration
- 00:10:24
- Date
-
Event:
1939 September
- Locale
-
Warsaw,
Poland
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Filmoteka Narodowa
- Contributor
-
Camera Operator:
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
- Unedited.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Poor
- Time Code
- 00:01:34:00 to 00:11:58:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 2662 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - PAL
Master 2662 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - PAL
Master 2662 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - PAL
Master 2662 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - PAL- Preservation
Preservation 2662 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2662 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2662 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2662 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large- User
User 2662 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch
User 2662 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch
User 2662 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch
User 2662 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- This archival media can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations.
- Copyright
- Filmoteka Narodowa
- Conditions on Use
- Contact FINA customer service team at dokument@fina.gov.pl for permission to reproduce and use this film.
- Copyright Holder
- Filmoteka Narodowa
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this footage from WFDiF (Documentary and Feature Film Studio, Film Archive) in Warsaw, Poland in June 2003.
- Note
- USHMM Betacam made from VHS copies provided by WFDiF.
- Film Source
- Filmoteka Narodowa
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 4016
Source Archive Number: MF 0140 - Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:56:22
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