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German siege of Warsaw, Poland 1939; CUs of Poles

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4190 | Film ID: 3027

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    German siege of Warsaw, Poland 1939; CUs of Poles

    Overview

    Description
    Warsaw, Poland 1939, the German siege of the city. LS, a man walks down a deserted city street lined with buildings that are crumbling as a result of the German air raids the camera pans right to capture more of the destruction to individual buildings. CU a Polish propaganda poster encouraging the Poles to fight back against the invading German armies, depicted as a large hand and a swastika. LS, more destruction. A city street is blocked off by a train that has derailed in the center of the street. A Polish soldier stands guard while several civilians help to dig ditches and build barricades. MLS, Polish civilians drag dead horses off the street. Ten men are needed to harness and remove one horse from the road. CU, a fire burning in rubble, a neighborhood destroyed by the German air attacks. Men and women, residents of the area mill about in the debris, gathering what they can salvage from the wreckage. MS, filed on the outskirts of Warsaw where a woman lies dead in the field, caught off guard by German planes while she was picking potatoes. Two women walk past her, her head is covered with a basket, the two women look briefly at the camera, then again at the body, they point to something out of frame, and then move on. Another woman approaches the body then continues on. MS, the camera pans the body again, that Julien Bryan has identified in his book "Siege," a young boy sits on the ground near the body leaning on a burlap sack of potatoes, a destroyed farmhouse is visible in the BG. VS, women and children working the land in the field near the site of the attack, they continue to dig up potatoes. MS, Julien Bryan in the center of the frame, surrounded by a group of Polish civilians who have survived an air attack on their homes. The camera pans the scene of the destruction as Bryan listens intently as a man recounts what happened at the site. MS, a woman continues to explain the attack. CU, an elderly, emaciated woman tells her story directly to the camera. VS of the women recounting the events. Excellent CUs of the Polish people. The footage cuts back to the potato field on the outskirts of Warsaw, two women are crying as they look on the body of the dead women, whose younger sister has now appeared to claim her, the young girl, Kazimiera Mika, kneels beside the body crying helplessly. Cut back to a scene of people kneeling outside of a destroyed church and praying. A credit now appears that reads "THE END." This credit belongs to the film "Siege."
    Duration
    00:02:37
    Date
    Event:  1939 September
    Locale
    Warsaw, Poland
    Credit
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, gift of Julien Bryan Archive
    Contributor
    Director: Julien H. Bryan
    Producer: Julien H. Bryan
    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
    Outtakes.
    B&W / Color
    Black & White
    Image Quality
    Excellent
    Time Code
    01:13:45:00 to 01:16:22:00
    Film Format
    • Master
    • Master 3027.2 Film: negative - 35 mm - nitrate - b&w - camera original - duplicate negative
      Master 3027.1 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
      Master 3027.2 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
      Master 3027.1 Film: negative - 35 mm - nitrate - b&w - camera original - duplicate negative
      Master 3027.2 Film: negative - 35 mm - nitrate - b&w - camera original - duplicate negative
      Master 3027.1 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
      Master 3027.2 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
      Master 3027.1 Film: negative - 35 mm - nitrate - b&w - camera original - duplicate negative
      Master 3027.2 Film: negative - 35 mm - nitrate - b&w - camera original - duplicate negative
      Master 3027.1 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
      Master 3027.2 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
      Master 3027.1 Film: negative - 35 mm - nitrate - b&w - camera original - duplicate negative
      Master 3027.2 Film: negative - 35 mm - nitrate - b&w - camera original - duplicate negative
      Master 3027.1 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
      Master 3027.2 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
      Master 3027.1 Film: negative - 35 mm - nitrate - b&w - camera original - duplicate negative
    • Preservation
    • Preservation 3027.1 Film: negative - 35 mm - polyester - b&w - silent - duplicate negative - B-wind
      Preservation 3027.2 Film: negative - 35 mm - polyester - b&w - silent - duplicate negative - B-wind
      Preservation 3027.2 Film: positive - 35 mm - polyester - b&w - silent - fine grain master - A-wind
      Preservation 3027.1 Film: positive - 35 mm - polyester - b&w - silent - fine grain master - A-wind
      Preservation 3027 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Preservation 3027.1 Film: negative - 35 mm - polyester - b&w - silent - duplicate negative - B-wind
      Preservation 3027.2 Film: negative - 35 mm - polyester - b&w - silent - duplicate negative - B-wind
      Preservation 3027.2 Film: positive - 35 mm - polyester - b&w - silent - fine grain master - A-wind
      Preservation 3027.1 Film: positive - 35 mm - polyester - b&w - silent - fine grain master - A-wind
      Preservation 3027 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Preservation 3027.1 Film: negative - 35 mm - polyester - b&w - silent - duplicate negative - B-wind
      Preservation 3027.2 Film: negative - 35 mm - polyester - b&w - silent - duplicate negative - B-wind
      Preservation 3027.2 Film: positive - 35 mm - polyester - b&w - silent - fine grain master - A-wind
      Preservation 3027.1 Film: positive - 35 mm - polyester - b&w - silent - fine grain master - A-wind
      Preservation 3027 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Preservation 3027.1 Film: negative - 35 mm - polyester - b&w - silent - duplicate negative - B-wind
      Preservation 3027.2 Film: negative - 35 mm - polyester - b&w - silent - duplicate negative - B-wind
      Preservation 3027.2 Film: positive - 35 mm - polyester - b&w - silent - fine grain master - A-wind
      Preservation 3027.1 Film: positive - 35 mm - polyester - b&w - silent - fine grain master - A-wind
      Preservation 3027 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
    • User
    • User 3027.1 Film: positive - 35 mm - polyester - b&w - silent - checkprint
      User 3027.2 Film: positive - 35 mm - polyester - b&w - silent - checkprint
      User 3027.1 Film: positive - 35 mm - polyester - b&w - silent - checkprint
      User 3027.2 Film: positive - 35 mm - polyester - b&w - silent - checkprint
      User 3027.1 Film: positive - 35 mm - polyester - b&w - silent - checkprint
      User 3027.2 Film: positive - 35 mm - polyester - b&w - silent - checkprint
      User 3027.1 Film: positive - 35 mm - polyester - b&w - silent - checkprint
      User 3027.2 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.

    Keywords & Subjects

    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: 4453
    Source Archive Number: JB 2117
    Record last modified:
    2024-02-21 08:01:57
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