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Zinc refinery in Katowice, Poland, circa 1936

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4181 | Film ID: 3025

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    Zinc refinery in Katowice, Poland, circa 1936

    Overview

    Description
    Scenes from the Giesche Zinc mine and refinery in Katowice, Poland, circa 1936. VS, INT near the furnaces, women sorting ore before it is smelted, the conveyor belt from the mine shaft, the molten ore being poured into molds. 01:02:06 Workers' jackets hanging from the ceiling of the factory near the light fixtures. EXT, LS, workers exiting the factory, some get on their bicycles others leave on foot. Many workers are young, and smile for the camera. INT, workers filling the molds used for the molten zinc ore. EXT, LS of the countryside in south central Poland. VS of the rural village and the inhabitants. Woman in traditional central Polish folk dress, carrying a basket of flowers walks along a dirt road. EXT, LS, zinc refinery smokestacks are seen in the BG from behind a row of small homes, most likely the factory worker's homes. Gardens and fallow fields are visible in the FG. EXT, LS, unknown location, a large brick multi-story building on a street corner, ducks are walking about on the lawn in front of the building. MCU, children look out a window from the brick building and catch the gaze of the camera. EXT, LS, zinc refinery, ducks are visible waddling across the lawn in the BG.
    Duration
    00:05:03
    Date
    Event:  1936
    Production:  1937
    Locale
    Poland
    Katowice, Poland
    Silesia
    Credit
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, gift of Julien Bryan Archive
    Contributor
    Director: Julien H. Bryan
    Producer: Julien H. Bryan
    Camera Operator: Jules Bucher
    Camera Operator: Robert Carr
    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
    Excellent
    Time Code
    01:00:05:00 to 01:05:08:02
    Film Format
    • Master
    • Master 3025 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
      Master 3025 Film: negative - 35 mm - nitrate - b&w - original negative
      Master 3025 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
      Master 3025 Film: negative - 35 mm - nitrate - b&w - original negative
      Master 3025 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
      Master 3025 Film: negative - 35 mm - nitrate - b&w - original negative
      Master 3025 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
      Master 3025 Film: negative - 35 mm - nitrate - b&w - original negative
    • Preservation
    • Preservation 3025 Film: negative - 35 mm - polyester - b&w - silent - duplicate negative - B-wind
      Preservation 3025 Film: positive - 35 mm - polyester - b&w - silent - fine grain master - A-wind
      Preservation 3025 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Preservation 3025 Film: negative - 35 mm - polyester - b&w - silent - duplicate negative - B-wind
      Preservation 3025 Film: positive - 35 mm - polyester - b&w - silent - fine grain master - A-wind
      Preservation 3025 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Preservation 3025 Film: negative - 35 mm - polyester - b&w - silent - duplicate negative - B-wind
      Preservation 3025 Film: positive - 35 mm - polyester - b&w - silent - fine grain master - A-wind
      Preservation 3025 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Preservation 3025 Film: negative - 35 mm - polyester - b&w - silent - duplicate negative - B-wind
      Preservation 3025 Film: positive - 35 mm - polyester - b&w - silent - fine grain master - A-wind
      Preservation 3025 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
    • User
    • User 3025 Film: positive - 35 mm - polyester - b&w - silent - checkprint
      User 3025 Film: positive - 35 mm - polyester - b&w - silent - checkprint
      User 3025 Film: positive - 35 mm - polyester - b&w - silent - checkprint
      User 3025 Film: positive - 35 mm - polyester - b&w - silent - checkprint

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    You do not require further permission from the Museum to access this archival media.
    Copyright
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    Conditions on Use
    Sam Bryan transferred the copyright for the Julien Bryan Archive to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in April 2020. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum places no restrictions on use of this material and you do not require further permission from the Museum to reproduce or use this film footage.

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    Administrative Notes

    Film Provenance
    The Julien Bryan Collection of films, photographs, documents, and artifacts was purchased by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum from Sam Bryan and the International Film Foundation, Inc. on February 12, 2003.
    Note
    Detailed preservation notes from the film lab are available in Film and Video department files.
    Additional photographs are available in the USHMM Photo Archives.
    Film Source
    Bryan, Sam
    File Number
    Legacy Database File: 4444
    Source Archive Number: JB 2105
    Record last modified:
    2024-02-21 08:01:54
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