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Siege of Warsaw

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 2003.213 | RG Number: RG-60.4468 | Film ID: 3031

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    Siege of Warsaw

    Overview

    Description
    This is an incomplete version of the film "Siege" and does not have Julien Bryan's soundtrack.

    Warsaw 1939. Julien Bryan introduction to camera. Civilians digging ditches, constructing blockades, dead horses. Poles washing outdoors in makeshift homes, food lines. Bundles of belongings on baby carriage. Poles walking with bundles. Interior - damage to Kodak film laboratory where Bryan's films were being developed. Fires, church destruction, priests, relics, etc. INT, hospital damage. Open field, women gathering potatoes, injured by strafing of Luftwaffe planes. Poles gather in front of town ruins, VAR CUs, people in distress.
    Film Title
    Siege (excerpt)
    Duration
    00:05:58
    Date
    Event:  1939 September
    Locale
    Warsaw, Poland
    Credit
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, gift of Julien Bryan Archive
    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
    Documentary.
    B&W / Color
    Black & White
    Image Quality
    Mixed
    Time Code
    01:00:00:00 to 01:05:58:00
    Film Format
    • Master
    • Master 3031 Film: positive - 35 mm - nitrate - b&w - composite print
      Master 3031 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
      Master 3031 Film: positive - 35 mm - nitrate - b&w - composite print
      Master 3031 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
      Master 3031 Film: positive - 35 mm - nitrate - b&w - composite print
      Master 3031 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
      Master 3031 Film: positive - 35 mm - nitrate - b&w - composite print
      Master 3031 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
    • Preservation
    • Preservation 3031 Film: negative - 35 mm - polyester - b&w - duplicate negative - B-wind - Kodak - 2234
      Preservation 3031 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Preservation 3031 Film: negative - 35 mm - polyester - b&w - duplicate negative - B-wind - Kodak - 2234
      Preservation 3031 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Preservation 3031 Film: negative - 35 mm - polyester - b&w - duplicate negative - B-wind - Kodak - 2234
      Preservation 3031 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Preservation 3031 Film: negative - 35 mm - polyester - b&w - duplicate negative - B-wind - Kodak - 2234
      Preservation 3031 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small

    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 donated by Sam Bryan and the International Film Foundation, Inc. on March 17, 2003.
    Film Source
    Sam Bryan and International Film Foundation
    File Number
    Legacy Database File: 4811
    Source Archive Number: JB 2119
    Record last modified:
    2024-02-21 08:06:02
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