Arc de Triomphe

Displaced persons board ship in Bremerhaven, Germany to relocate to the United States

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Bremerhaven, Germany at the port of embarkation. US military personnel mill about, arranging signs, helping DPs with luggage, guiding the refugees through this stage of the emigration process. They are on their way to the United States, a large painted banner on the docks reads: "Welcome to the first DP Emigrants to the US, Bremerhaven Port of Embarkation" Refugees board the ship (the General Wm. M. Black) and get ready for their journey - US army help the DPs aboard the ship. Everyone seems very happy, even the children, some have looks of bewilderment on their faces. All are in overcoats, carrying luggage, and they have name tags/ ID tags on their clothing. 01:00:40 and 01:03:40 -- Another banner over the deck of the ship reads: "Ship to freedom" with DPs, including John (Ivan) Poliszczuk. Press and camera crews are visible; a military band plays for the event. As the DPs board the ship, US Army man directs them from the top of gangplank: men are sent to one side, women and children to the other. The passengers wave from the ship's deck to the camera, the camera follows the ship as it heads out to sea. The ship moves out of sight. 01:04:27 VS of dockworkers at the port of Linz (on the Danube River in Austria), loading and unloading other ships and barges with raw materials.

DPs emigrate from Bremerhaven, Germany to the United States; scenes of postwar life in Salzburg, Austria

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Bremerhaven, Germany: CU of Julien Bryan's name written in chalk on the side of a railcar, he used this as his camera slate. Port: MS of part of the ship the "US Army Transport General William M. Black," passengers wave from the deck of the ship to the camera, a banner on the lower deck of the ship reads: "America Welcomes Its New Citizens," camera pans to upper deck of ship where a banner reads: "Ship to Freedom." The passengers and the US military aboard the ship wave to the cameras. New slate, Salzburg, Austria: US Information Center on a buys street corner. Austrian civilians gather to look at the window displays featuring information about industry and farming in the US. Scene shifts to barge along a river in Austria. New slate: Bremerhaven, Germany: DPs getting off the trains from the first leg of their journey, US military police are patrolling the train platform, young women with their luggage and their ID tags pinned to their coats line up for the camera and then move along. VS of DPs and MPs feet as they move along the train platform. Teenage boys (refugees) waiting in line to board the ship, looking up at the ship that is out of frame, their ID tags are attached to pins that say; "US Committee," they are followed by a group of older ladies, a man with a camera around his neck moves out of the way of the movie camera. VS of refugees filing off of trains and towards the ship. Good CUs of the children, the press, etc. at the port as they get on board the ship. US military cameramen are visible in some shots as well.

Relocation of displaced persons

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INT, processing center for IRO (International Relief Organization). Families line up at desks where young men and women review their identity papers, create new documents, and arrange for them to emigrate to North America (Canada, United States), and various countries in South America. They are fingerprinted as well. VS, CUs of the refugees talking to the IRO workers. Expressions on the faces of refugees range from terrified to elated. 01:03:23:28 CU of a set of identity papers being created for a young woman, and her fingerprints being imprinted on the back of the paper. The same action is now viewed in a MS, where the young woman's family is visible as well. Footage has been staged for the camera in order to capture the entire process.

Relocation of displaced persons from Yugoslavia

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INT, A Yugoslavian family is seen in their own quarters at the DP camp (staged). The extended family is gathered around a woodburning stove in their makeshift home, UNRRA crates serve as their coffee table, and a tapestry hangs on the wall in the BG above the metal frame cot. One of the young men packs his suitcase as all the family gathers round to view their newly created identity papers and make plans for the future. One of the women is making coffee on the stove. VS, mostly MCUs of the family members passing around the documents to have a closer look. CU of one of their passports from Yugoslavia. MS of the family back at the processing center. They gather around a table with two IRO representatives, one who represents the Venezuelan mission, the other who is a medical doctor, responsible for documenting the health of the émigrés. The Venezuelan mission representative locates Venezuela on a large map of South America for the family, as they look on and ask questions. The doctor examines a chest X-ray of another family member.

Relocation of displaced persons

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INT, MS, IRO refugee processing center. Several displaced persons gather around the Canadian representatives at their desk at the processing center (staged). The two representatives answer questions from the group, made up mostly of young men, and a few young women. MCU, two young refugees talk to the representatives. EXT, LS, DP camp Ebelsberg in Linz, Austria. Refugees gather with their belongings to begin their journey to Canada. VS, refugees helping each other close and label their luggage for the journey. The refugees load into open trucks in order to make the trip to the train station, includes Mendel Good (Aftergut). At the train station all the belongings are loaded into the railcars. Children getting into the railcars with their families to begin a new life. The refugees speak to each other, to the IRO staff that are helping them, and to the camera. Several CUs of crates bearing the names of individuals and their final destinations.

Catholic church in Warsaw postwar

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EXT, Warsaw in ruins in winter 1946/1947 on a bright sunny day. Damaged buildings. Good close shots of Poles entering and exiting a Catholic church. The doorway is marked in Polish with "Wejscie do Kosciola"[the entrance to the church]. Some men in Polish military uniforms. Longer shot of the same area showing the church steeple, patrons, ruined buildings, electronic rail lines above the streets.

Cemetery and church in postwar Warsaw

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Reel 3A Cemetery, tombstones. Women placing flowers and candles at graves. MS, cemetery with men, women, and children. Wooden crosses flanked with miniature Polish flags and flowers. Official military burial with flag-draped coffins, Polish soldiers, wooden crosses/wreaths, and a priest. Cut to Catholic church in the ruins of Warsaw. Poles exit and enter through an underground entrance marked in Polish with "Wejscie do Kosciola"[the entrance to the church] (Photo Archives W/S 46323). MS, Warsaw street scenes in ruins.

Rebuilding Warsaw, probably in 1947

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Reel 3A Animated map. Goats grazing in brick ruins. Man approaches a gravesite with flowers. LS, overview of massive destruction in the city of Warsaw - bombed buildings. MS, then CUs of the monument in the former Warsaw ghetto to Jews who died in the 1943 uprising. HAS, construction site, rebuilding Poland, river in BG, crane. VAR views of schoolchildren walking along the sidewalk and playing at school. HAS, policeman directing traffic (pedestrians, automobiles, trams, horse/buggy) with Warsaw in the distance. School. Shop amidst ruins (pile of bricks). CU, shop sign (bookstore). Large building adjacent to new construction. Children walk to school. CU, shoulder patch of a Danish soldier. Reconstruction of Warsaw from a moving vehicle. CU, architectural model of Warsaw. INT, classroom, a priest lectures to boys and girls seated at desks. AS of vehicular traffic. A man sells wares on the street, a girl buys ice cream. Pan, Warsaw. Polish military teens pass wooden crosses along (assembly-line style) at a cemetery. Closer shots of bombed buildings. Now in a village, CUs of Polish children - looking at camera, digging in the dirt, and eating dumplings. Mountain-side views of the town, a man dressed as a bear stands along a sidewalk greeting villagers. High shot of open jeep with people entering a village, boys performing a drill, woman doing laundry in her yard, bucolic mountains, and three pedestrians. Quick shot of "Fryzjer" [barber] sign, followed by ruins of Warsaw, shells of buildings. People look out "window" in shelled building, woman with a water pail, children playing in ruins, geese, Julien Bryan's car, ruins located adjacent to the river, children playing games.

Destroyed Gdansk

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Reel 3A Winter 1945/1946 or 1946/1947 In Gdansk (Danzig), destruction to buildings along the river in the city, reflection in the water. Building EXTs with German-language signs (iron factory, restaurant, etc). [VQ- still frames in places where there are technical problems from Bryan's camera and poor processing.] Cut to elder couple walking toward camera among ruins. Three men digging in a pile of bricks. Repeat of earlier two sequences in black and white. August-September 1958 Village scenes (poor image color and quality) in Poland, geese in water, tractor and farming. Winter 1945/1946 or 1946/1947 Return to city (Danzig?) with shells of buildings. CU, inscriptions and signs. CUs, posters. In Gdansk (Danzig), destroyed buildings, Deutschebank, streets with ruined buildings.

Bryan locates individuals he filmed during the German siege of Warsaw

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Reel 3B Julien Bryan shows his book "Siege" to Poles in Warsaw, looking to find people he photographed in 1939, including priest Father Wlodarczyk, photographed in 1939 with a broken portrait in church ruins (Photo Archives W/S 47239). VAR CUs of Poles gathered around Bryan. Small church. Julien Bryan with a female interpreter, Christina Cekalska, in front of a sign for the National Theater. MS, Apolonia Wiktorzak, who was photographed in 1939 holding a loaf of bread, now 65 years old (Photo Archives W/S 47371). Longer view of the group crowding around Bryan and Apolonia in front of their homes in the Polish countryside. Two children on city street walk toward camera. LS, St. Alexander's Church in Warsaw with a crowd at the entrance. LS, man walking along road with three children, a cyclist, and a building with façade under construction. JB and Christina look at National Theater posters. Catholic mass spills onto church steps, closer shots, children, crowd kneels. Bryan with translator shows "Siege" photographs from 1939 to more Poles. Tram stop. Market, fruit and vegetable stands, balloons. MS, grand building, Hotel Bristol, where JB and other foreigners with neutral passports assembled on Sept. 21, 1939 immediately prior to getting out of Warsaw. Pedestrians pass front windows of the hotel. Cut to another intersection, and then another with people entering a travel agency and CUs of posters of Budapest and an international music festival in the windows. (Building is the one JB photographed in 1939 with sandbags and "Wagonslits" sign in Photo Archives W/S 47396). Traffic and pedestrians cross a bridge, Polish flags hang from the posts, homes in BG. View from afar of a train crossing a bridge and the city along the Vistula river. Three nurses look at photos of a bombed hospital from "Siege" book, the shots that follow include Julien Bryan in the frame. The nurses (Sisters Zurawska, Helena, and Genowefa) remembered the day when the maternity ward of the Catholic Hospital of the Transfiguration was bombed in 1939, which JB photographed (Photo Archives W/S 47210). LS, MSs of the new city hospital with 800 beds. Man on crutches. Another view of tram traffic on a bridge and Warsaw.

Bryan locates individuals he filmed during the German siege of Warsaw

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Reel 7A. Colorful flowers. Mother sitting with children on a park bench in Warsaw. New housing in Warsaw. Reconstruction. Steel mill. Workers leave mill through gates. Cranes at work, INT coal burning. INTs, Julien Bryan with Jozefa Drzewowska (age 72), photographed clasping her hands in prayer in 1939 and used on the cover of "Siege" (Photo Archives W/S 47403). Jozefa's daughter and grandchildren. Julien Bryan with Apolonia and village children distributing contents of a CARE package. Apolonia Wiktorzak was photographed in 1939 holding a loaf of bread, now 65 years old (Photo Archives W/S 47371). He gives Apolonia a scarf and fur jacket. Jozefa stands at the doorway of her apartment building while her daughter and grandchildren exit (repeated shots). Farmland in Poland. EXT, café with patrons in Krakow. Market, Barbican stairs, crowded square and church. HAS, beach. MS, castle of Polish kings (Wawel) in Krakow, closer view of tourists. Visiting Auschwitz concentration camp, visitors walk under "Arbeit Macht Frei" iron gate. LS, amusements along river - children playing. INTs, CU, woman praying at Catholic mass. INTs, nursery school, cute toddlers at play. EXT, patrons sit at café tables (again), talking, smoking. Flower stalls at the outdoor marketplace. Reel 7B. CU, red metal sign for a medical clinic in Warsaw. HAS, repeated LSs, of the city of Warsaw from a lookout tower. Series of sequences with Mrs. Waclawa Ladziak, her daughter Janina, her son-in-law Eugeniusz Motyka, and her 3 year old grandson. Mrs. Ladziak was photographed with her infant daughter Janina by Julien Bryan in September 1939 crossing a bridge with their belongings to escape Nazi bombing (Photo Archives W/S 47230). INTs, apartment, Janina brushes her hair and puts on makeup at a vanity, books arranged for camera, bookshelf, radio. Her husband shaves. CUs, Waclawa with her grandson, looking at a family photo album. EXT, Kazimiera Mika's small house at 2 Dalibora in Warsaw. Kazimiera was photographed by JB in 1939 mourning the death of her older sister, who was killed in a field in Warsaw during a German air raid (Photo Archvives W/S 50897). CU, Kazimiera's son Andrew meets his father, a tram driver, on the sidewalk and walks into their home. Janina (seen earlier) and her husband walk through Warsaw, looking at posters, looking at newspaper article on "Siege" photos from 1939, including the photograph of her as a baby. The family then walks across a bridge (recreation of the 1939 scene). CU of Jozefa (seen earlier), praying in field adjacent to the small church. JB with Jozefa and the priest, small church in BG. Large group of schoolchildren walk along a road with their teacher. MSs, Julien Bryan talks to Ryszard Pajewski (now a truck driver) who he filmed in 1939 (boy sitting in rubble, Photo Archives W/S 31324). Of this encounter in 1958, JB wrote "he remembered my gray suit." Children at the school playground, playing with toys outdoors, putting on coats, dancing in a circle. Big building in the city of Warsaw, street cleaning, traffic. Outdoor marketplace, CUs of vegetables. A different shot of school-children crossing the street. Balbina Szymanska (mother of the twins killed on September 5, 1944) with her husband and children standing on a pile of ruins in Warsaw, some with JB. Balbina was photographed immediately after giving birth to twins at the bombed maternity hospital in 1939 (Photo Archives W/S 47218). JB shows a crowd his "Siege" book, next to his automobile. Good CUs of Poles. Brief shot of Stefan Radlinski (in light jacket) shaking hands with a Polish civilian. He was JB's interpreter during the siege of Warsaw in 1939.

Eleanor Roosevelt in Holland

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Procession of automobiles arrives at church, spectators line the streets. Women greet officials, shake hands. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt in a flowered hat is welcomed by state officials. INTs of church, Mrs. Roosevelt speaking from podium, clergy seated in formal dress for the official visit. Mrs. Roosevelt exiting church with a bouquet of flowers and officials. CUs, spectators welcoming Mrs. Roosevelt. Procession of priests and academics. Horses with buggy, jovial elderly man. CU, woman with camera.

YMCA; Prague

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Street scenes, trolley, storefronts in Czechoslovakia. CU sign reads “YMCA KAVARNA JIDELNA VCHOD PASAZI.” Young men with a coach on a basketball court. CU coach demonstrates how to hold the ball. Young boys in an indoor pool. Boys sitting on the side of the pool cheering swimmers. SOME OVERLAP WITH FILM ID 2322 (03:30) Audience. Couple at head of room, camera and lights seen to the left. Woman stands and speaks. CU audience. They get refreshments. EXT Charles Bridge in Prague, stone arch at one end of bridge. St. Vitus Cathedral. CU statue. Man on ladder takes down a sign from the side of a building. Street, trolley moves towards the camera. Additional shots of streets and buildings in Prague. (08:23) CU guillotine blade falling, shadow of man. Men observing and discussing guillotine. Man on hands and knees scrubbing floor of large hallway with the silhouette of a man pacing in FG. Men and women gathered in a room with bookshelves, looking at a booklet together. Women setting up chess board. CU hands arranging shapes. Additional people enter the room and shake hands. Woman seated with row of men standing behind them, looking at booklets and framed portraits together. Photographs of young boys and a medal in a case. CU, Národní osvobození newspaper with photograph of philosopher Jaroslav Šimsa.

Recovery activities sponsored by the Economic Cooperation Administration

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The Economic Cooperation Administration (ECA) was a U.S. government agency set up in 1948 to administer the European recovery program (Marshall Plan). EXT man on a horse-drawn mower in a field. Men clear grass by hand with scythes. Farm building and truck. Women hoeing. CU women stop to talk. Men load hay onto a truck. Truck drives away. Courtyard with men moving large sacks. Men and women work on farm machinery and bag grain. (04:09) Slate reads “DAY 3 EXT 1 ECA.” CU root vegetables. Three horses pull a cart full of root vegetables as a man walks alongside. Truck dumpsload of root vegetables. Farm machinery and truck in field, harvesting. CU “CATERPILLAR” on side of tractor. More slates and different farming machinery. LS tractor in a field with farm buildings behind it. Silhouette of farm machinery at sunset.

Economic recovery activities in Europe

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The Economic Cooperation Administration (ECA) was a U.S. government agency set up in 1948 to administer the European recovery program (Marshall Plan). EXT building with several narrow smokestacks. CU man. Row of bicycles and motorcycles under a shelter, man rides a bicycle away. Woman leans out a window, speaking. Cycling down different streets. INT men enter a room full of large stacks of wound wire. Man walks across factory floor. Upside down slate reads “DAY 28 INT 1 ECA.” Two men carefully lower a large spool of wire onto something. Damaged brick building. Ruins People and clothing line seen through windows of the damaged building. Men rebuild road, rock-filled street. Men on scaffolding. Streets, carts passing. Construction. Man on ground hoists materials to men and women on scaffolding. Woman shovels sand into a cement mixer. More new buildings under construction.

Eleanor Roosevelt visits Holland in June 1950; Marshall Plan parade

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EXT crowd lines the street. Motorcade. Eleanor Roosevelt beside a car shaking hands. Line of university professors in academic robes enter a building with an American flag flying over the entrance. People get out of cars, Netherlands flag in BG. INT church with crowd of seated academics. EXT Eleanor Roosevelt walking with academics, wearing hood and holding wreath and piece of paper. CU, crowd on street clapping. Parade for economic recovery (ECA) activities passes, including a band and a float of the Holland America Westerdam ship. Float of a beetle: “STAATSVIJANDA.” More parade floats, one with girls with a large heart engraved with “THANK YOU MARSHALL.” People look out of windows. Flag of the Netherlands. Band playing. CU streetlight illuminating.

Prague city; Czech prison; YMCA; Jaroslav Šimsa

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Pedestrians on Charles Bridge in Prague. Buildings and street in the Little Quarter. St. Vitus Cathedral. Scaffolding. Old Town Square. Statue of the Holy Crucifix and Calvary on Charles Bridge. Additional shots of statues, buildings, and streets in Prague. (03:50) INT shadow of man cranking the blade of a guillotine up. This scene was shot in the Pancraz prison in Prague postwar. Shadow of blade falling. Man demonstrates guillotine. CU two men in discussion. Man on hands and knees scrubs floor of large hallway with the silhouette of a man pacing in FG. Man sitting in cell with bars on the window. (06:44) Street in Prague with trolley going by. Storefronts. CU sign reads “YMCA KAVARNA JIDELNA VCHOD PASAZI.” CU sign reads “PRAZSKA YMKA.” Busy sidewalk in front of YMCA, several people enter. INT women seated with a row of men standing behind them, looking at booklets and framed portraits together. CU They bow their heads in prayer. Opening the book “BEYOND TRAGEDY” by Reinhold Niebuhr. Opening booklet “PIRAT SEDMI MORI.” Bookshelves. Setting up a chess board in a room, the small bust of a man and a portrait of philosopher Jaroslav Šimsa with black ribbon in BG. Brief shot of two women looking at a medal in a case. (15:25) Young man picks up cans from a windowsill. Men seen through an open window. INT man sits on a cot reading. Two men join him. CU the men discuss the newspaper and gesture to a portrait of Czech statesman Edvard Beneš on the wall. Man cuts and butters bread at a table in the room. Gesturing to photograph of philosopher Jaroslav Šimsa on the wall while eating bread. Men come in and out of room, talking.

Recovering in postwar Czechoslovakia; Šimsa

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Two open elevators go up and down, people get on and off. Man leads a seated audience in song with accompanying hand gestures. CU audience listens. Woman speaks. Man raises hand and stands to perhaps answer a question. CU smiling audience. Men talk, upright plaque on table in FG. CU people sing and make hand gestures and smile. CU man leading song. Man plays piano. Audience applauds for piano player. (11:28) Man gestures to a photograph of philosopher Jaroslav Šimsa on the wall. “SIMSA” book. Man cuts and butters bread. Men seated at table in discussion, upright plaque on table, one man stands and speaks. Others talk and smile. Audience stands for refreshments. INT, young men with a coach on a basketball court. Boys in an indoor pool.

Fishing in China

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Various scenes of China - children, cleaning wok on small boat, fishing, traveling shots from rowboat, home, scenic landscape views, fishing on river, ducks.

Marshall Plan parade

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Marshall Plan parade in the Netherlands. Marching band and elaborate floats process while spectators line streets. Float sponsored by Dutch airline KLM passes, followed by one proclaiming "Thank You Marshall" with girls dressed in white. CUs, marching band members. Dutch flags posted on apartment buildings, spectators watch the parade from their apartment windows, street traffic.

Postwar steel wire factory

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INTs wire factory (ECA slates throughout). Various MSs and CUs of interiors, workers, and equipment. 01:04:07 Multiple takes, at end of shift, worker takes his bicycle and rides it around the EXT of the factory building past other employees. INTs, factory. CU, woman in window talking to someone below. Different shot of EXT of building with bicycles parked out front, same worker rides one. City street scenes, busy intersection, buses, man on bicycle passes by (multiple takes), traffic. CUs, man. EXT, factory with smokestacks (minor film damage).

China landscapes and farming

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Various scenes of China - children, home, farming, agriculture, landscape, mountains, building boat, fishing.

Postwar steel wire factory

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INTs wire factory (ECA slates throughout), workers, and equipment.

1948 short fiction film by Karl Sztollar

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Title "Eine Tür Steht Offen" Credits: Helios-Film Wien Directed by Karl Sztollar Pictures by Julius Jonak Music by Robert Stolz Window opens to the sky. Title card reads “Eine Tür Steht Offen.” Credits over sky. Open car full of young people driving on a winding road through the hills. Two men, a woman, and a dog in the car. View out the windshield of the car. CU Smiling woman with her arm around the man. Car stops, young people pile out and run up some stairs. Scenic overlook with tables set up. Young people admire the view. Pan over the view of the city. 2:22 Young people having a picnic beside their car. Woman turns on their radio, grabs the sunglasses of her companion, and stands. She begins talking about the United States and New York City. Animation begins of New York City buildings and trains as the woman gives voiceover. City by the beach seen from distance. Animation of Hollywood, showing a camera crew filming on a beach. Images of Hollywood stars, Ronald Colman, Ginger Rogers, Bing Crosby, and Greta Garbo. Animation ends. 3:33 CU Young woman speaking. Young people discussing the United States by their car. EXT “USA INFORMATION CENTER'' building with American flags. View of the city of Linz. “UNITED STATES INFORMATION CENTER'' building on a street corner with a traffic officer in front. View of the city of Salzburg. “U.S. INFORMATION CENTER'' building with people standing out front. “U.S. INFORMATION CENTER'' building in Vienna. People exiting the building and walking under a sign with an American flag that reads “VEREINIGTE STAATEN.” Men look at a display labeled “WÄHLT DAS VOLK DER USA EINEN PRÄSIDENTEN.” Many people seated at tables covered with newspapers and books in a reading room. CU Older woman reading a newspaper. CU American magazines and newspapers including the New York Times, Life, and Seventeen. Arts and Architecture magazine. Medical journals. Art, theatre, music, photo magazines etc. Sportfolio magazine. Bookshelves full of books. People reading at tables. A woman combs her hair while looking at a picture of Rita Hayworth in a magazine. American books in English and German. A woman walking out the door holding a book. 6:19 EXT A seated middle-aged woman reads a book. A man reading. A young woman lying on the grass reading. Two boys point at a car driving past. The two boys go to the U.S. Information Center. The woman attendant finds them a magazine about Abraham Lincoln, but the boys want to know about the Lincoln car manufacturer. She finds them a different magazine and the boys thank her. “AMERIKANISCHE STUNDE” poster. Man taking measurements with a compass from a book when a woman (his wife?) puts her arm around him and shows him a magazine. The woman looks disappointed and the man returns to his measurements. 8:07 Cover of Architectural Forum Magazine of Building. CU Flipping through the magazine. Industry and machinery. Mechanical Engineering journal. Man laughs at what he is reading in the crowded reading room. Man holding a cane enters and talks to the attendant. CU Landwirtschaftliche Nachrichten aus den Vereinigten Staaten newspaper. House & Garden, Better Homes and Garden, and Good Housekeeping magazines. The attendant references a New York telephone book for a woman. Animation of a map of the United States with the Statue of Liberty. Montage of images of the United States begins. Skyscrapers. Cattle grazing. Mountain. Grand Canyon. Capitol building. Hoover Dam. Golden Gate Bridge. Industrial area. Riverboat. Alma Mater sculpture in New York City. American servicemen in an amphitheatre. Medical professionals. Beach. City. Map of the United States surrounding a map of Austria. Map of Austria with coats of arms. Coat of arms of Austria. “Ende” card. 11:44 Sequence repeats.

Polish YMCA in Prague, 1946

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Prague, 1946. Polish YMCA: young adults take classes at the YMCA. The classes are co-ed. They are learning English. Scenes of socials, teas, mixers, etc. VS: young men learn to play basketball.

Prison in Prague, 1946

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A very brief sequence in an unidentified prison in Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1946. MS, from low angle. An inmate cleans a tile floor on his hands and knees with a wet rag and a bucket of water as a guard watches over him. The guard is in the foreground of the shot, and is seen mainly from the waist down, as a coat and a pair of boots in shadow. The inmate is in the background, and his figure is well lit.

Prague, 1946

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EXT shots of the YMCA building in Prague (called YMKA in Polish). VS: reconstruction of buildings in Prague. INT: VS: young adults/university age students; a reading room; CU of books on the bookshelves (Polish titles); MS: a group of young men socialize in a dormitory room, pictures of dignitaries and a poster of Prague hang on the walls; CU of a professor's classroom door. Inside the classroom, English lessons in progress, female teacher. VS: CUs of the students in class and at a social gathering.

Guillotine in prison, 1946

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INT, Pancraz prison in Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1946. MS of a guillotine. The working of the machine is being demonstrated by a Czech prison guard in uniform to two men in civilian dress. The three men discuss the machine at some length, the footage is silent, and there is no record in Julien Bryan's shot lists that indicates why this action was shot, who these men are, and why they are watching this demonstration and discussion.

Polish YMCA and rebuilding in Prague, 1946

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CU on the book "Beyond Tragedy" by Reinhold Niebuhr. A woman holds the book and turns several pages in the book. EXT, VS Prague, buildings under reconstruction; town square; EXT of the YMCA;CU of sign that reads: "Polska YMCA"; adolescent boys coming out of the swimming pool in their short, tight trunks, lots of horseplay and other things popping up. 01:04:40:11 to 01:05:02:00 Young men and women gathered in a hall for a social, and then seated to watch a musical performance; band on stage, several cuts back and forth between musicians and audience. 01:08:25:20: Swimming pool, the boys how to dive with a coach, VS, CUs of the coach positioning their bodies, shot from behind, then seen in reverse angle from the front, shot from the opposite side of the pool; more horseplay in the pool. 01:09:54:20: return to concert/recital; CUs of audience members; English lessons at the YWCA with a female teacher.

YMCA; music recital; rehabilitation of youth, Prague, 1946

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EXT, VS of Prague, large municipal building, trolley car passing through frame, etc. Prague prison guillotine shadow sequence; CU of a prisoner who scrubs the floor; recital hall in Prague, young men and women are gathered for a performance and social. VS of young boys and girls lining up for tickets, then VS, CUs of them inside a theater, laughing and smiling, watching a film? Stage show? VS, CUs of the children lauging and enjoying themselves during the performance. INT, VS, young men at a large cafeterias style table, eating,drinking and horsing around. Very lively, footage. Women setting up drinks and sweets for the boys. VS, posters, charts and graphs on the wall at the Polska YMCA. Music recital, woman plays piano, hand painted sign above stage reads: "E. Grieg 1845-1907, sulla Peer Gint, Trabka G. Bizel Puzon Walloinia Tuba, suita L'Artesienne". There is a large microphone at the piano, it looks as if the performance could have been recorded, although this footage is silent, and no known soundtrack exists. Pianist gets up, takes a bow, conductor introduces trumpet player, french horn player, and trombone player.

Intertitles for The Invisible Bridge; Czech prison sequence

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01:23:52:01: Beginning titles of the Julien Bryan film "The Invisible Bridge". Credits read as follows: A Julien Bryan IFF Presentation, written by Basil Beyea, narrated by Arnold Moss, Edited by Joseph E. Dushock and Edward H. Powick. These credits are followed by more credits for the Far Eastern Expedition crew and the European Expedition crew; END credit runs, then cut to EXT, low angle CU of a cathedral; a shot of man in his prison cell, viewed first through the door's peep hole, and then by opening the cell door entirely, he sits in a chair, arms folded, looking at a wall, then scrubbing the floor.

French children in a youth camp, postwar

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This series of outtakes features adolescents (both male and female) in the mountains in France playing volleyball and other sports, dancing, singing and engaging in various outdoor activities at a youth camp. The exact location of this camp in France is not known. In the BG several tents are visible on the hillside. This footage has obviously been staged for the camera. The camera slates between takes indicate that this production was done in conjunction with the YMCA, which explains the focus on youth and their healthy development; the footage was most likely intended for use in an informational/documentary production for the French to encourage a return to routines of daily life that existed before the war.

WWII European refugees arrive in New York City

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New York Harbor, new arrivals to America. DPs from Europe, they are not all Jewish DPs, but they are all war refugees. VS, the ship named US Army Transport General WM. Black. Tracking shot of ship's arrival to NYC. Refugees and the crew of the ship wave to the camera as they enter the harbor. VS of New York harbor and the Statue of Liberty.

Postwar French youth camp

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This series of outtakes features adolescents (both male and female) in the mountains in France playing volleyball and other sports, dancing, singing and engaging in various outdoor activities at a youth camp. The exact location of this camp in France is not known. In the BG several tents are visible on the hillside. This footage has obviously been staged for the camera. The camera slates between takes indicate that this production was done in conjunction with the YMCA, which explains the focus on youth and their healthy development; the footage was most likely intended for use in an informational/documentary production for the French to encourage a return to routines of daily life that existed before the war.

Relocation of displaced persons

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EXT, relocation of DPs and war refugees. Filmed in Linz [see US army truck with Linz painted on the back.] VS, camp from various angles. LS establishing shot of a large crowd of displaced persons- men, women, and children, milling about outside of a barracks-like building (processing center). MCU, refugees in smaller groups, talking to each other as they wait for entrance to the building. Some look directly at the camera, several avoid it. These are many groups of extended families. Julien Bryan's notes do not indicate the ethnicity, nationality, or religious preference of the DPs, but they are probably a mix of ethnic Germans, Poles, and Jews. There are several young children and babies in the group, as well as an amputee, and even a small dog. At the door to the processing center a man with an armband slowly lets small groups of people enter as he eats an apple and talks to another young man.

Marshall Plan parade

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Dutch flags on buildings. Marshall Plan parade in the Netherlands. Float proclaiming "Thank You Marshall" with girls dressed in white passes the camera. Various MSs, CUs of spectators watching parade and cheering. More floats process. Another view of the Dutch flags. CUs, Dutch spectators.

Modern Poland before World War II

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English intertitles. Film taken prewar. Bridge. City streets and important buildings in Warsaw. A modern country: pedestrians reading newspapers, posters advertising arts and culture, vendors, trams, tall buildings, man with balloons and schoolchildren, storefronts. Cherished old quarters of Poland with ornate signs. Marketplaces - women selling flowers. City parks - women with baby carriages, CUs. High-rise apartment buildings and other modern housing structures. Jewish quarter, including arched street made famous by Roman Vishniac, geese transported in a wooden cart, the market in Krakow, Finkelstein shop and its owners, two religious Jews gesticulating in the street, and teenage students. A zinc refinery - factory and workers, zinc plates created and moved. Private residences in the mountains of Poland - wealthy couple and dog. Peasant workers with dogs and cows. A farm village, horses generate electricity for cutting hay. Peasant family - INTs of home, cooking, eating bread. Woman weaving. Livestock and farmers. CU, village children in school in southeastern Poland, playing ball outdoors, toddlers in kindergarten coloring, with abacus, learning grammar. Children weaving in the classroom, CUs. Boys engage in wood carving and sculpture in the classroom. Gdynia port with ships docked to export coal and lumber. Loading barges. Lumber yard. Railway, train, train driver.

Ceremony at church

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Very brief trim, INTs of church, many clergy seated in formal dress for some kind of official visit or ceremony. Most likely related to Eleanor Roosevelt's visit seen in Story RG-60.4652.

Women working at sewing machines; fashion

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INT, women sitting at tables and sewing clothing in a large room. A woman walks through the room with two shirts. A woman stands in front of a mirror in a dress that a seamstress is adjusting and pinning. CU, book of fashion. A designer sketches a dress. CU, Singer sewing machine. Camera pans over a city street in Russia, closes in on a sign on a building (in Cyrillic). INT, large group of women sitting around a table. Garments hang and rotate from mirror panels on a wall. CU, high heels as the camera pans up the body of a woman trying on a dress. INTs, women work at sewing machines. CU, fashion magazines. SEQ: Women in fashionable dresses walk down stairs and model for a small group of people. EXT, beauty parlor. INT, room of people being groomed. Wall covered in pictures of Joseph Stalin. In staff lounge, men play games, look at books, read newspaper. More grooming/setting hair.

Daily life in Russia

Film

INT, shots through a window of a window washer. EXT, city scenes from a moving tram. EXT, men digging up a road. Cows pass a barn. Young boys put potatoes in a bucket. CU, trams drive by, a busy town square. People board and exit a tram. Men read newspaper board. Various shots of little children. Man meticulously shines a woman's shoes. Street scenes. CU, fish in a tank. Storefront. Rowboat on a river. Men buy beer from a stand in the square. CU, statue of a rearing horse and a man holding the lead. Postmen deliver mail. Peasants/farmers shovel and load hay. Storefront of a housewares store. Young salesgirl/vendor sells something on the street. Elaborate Russian Orthodox church. Military vehicle. Construction on buildings. Crowd of people stand outside a storefront waiting for a performance of musical puppets. Eyeglass shop.

YMCA: swim team, singing, basketball; sights in Prague

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Man operates a movie reel projector, children watch and cheer the movie. Boys swim in a pool and cheer each other on. Man sings to a classroom. Man plays piano. Boys play basketball. CUs of Czech language booklets. The Charles Bridge in Prague. Young men learn how to play basketball. Large buildings in Prague. CUs, signs for the YMCA. Men stop and read sign, then enter the building. A group of people in a room sing together and perform hand motions to the song. Camera tracks backwards over Charles Bridge. The Prague Castle. CUs, basketball players. More city scenes of Prague, streets, buildings. A woman pours tea. Boys dive into a pool. CUs, St. Vitus Cathedral and statues on the Charles Bridge. Men ride an open elevator. Boys. Newspaper. Girls exercise in a gym. A young boy points to pictures on the wall. Eating in an apartment. Boys in pool. Shots, street scenes. INTs, men in lounge, talking and reading, CUs pictures on the wall.

Siege of Warsaw

Film

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.

Classroom activities in postwar Poland

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Street scenes in Krakow, Poland 1936

Film

Short shot of a horse drawn carriage pulling up in front of Holy Cross Church in Krakow, Poland. A group of adolescent girls walk along the street toward the church, a wooden cart without a horse is parked along the road.

Wawel Castle, Krakow

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EXT, Krakow's Wawel castle. Pan up the building toward clock tower. Architectural detail, CU from under an archway, partial view of a dome. VS, from inside the same building's courtyard. Group of young women dressed in long top coats, hats, scarves, berets walk along road; the gate is now visible in the BG. Their coats have an insignia on the arm, and the women carry leather satchels.Two men accompany them.

Warsaw park and schoolboys

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EXT, LS, in a park in Warsaw. Man in Polish uniform or police walks along the street with a woman in contemporary dress. Woman with a young child and carriage. CU, a group of small boys walk along the street wearing caps with a shiny insignia and the number "21" on them. Some smile, others look at the camera as they pass through the frame.

Staged (comic) sequence in Zakopane

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A comic sequence of an individual dressed in a furry bear costume who teases passersby on the streets of Zakopane in central Poland. CU of the bear hiding in bushes along the roadside. A young girl in traditional central Polish dress walks by on cue, and the bear jumps out of the bushes, feigning to attack the young girl. The girl laughs and plays along. Two takes of this action. The bear then proceeds to walk into the center of the road, and approach two men on a horse drawn cart. The bear plays with the cart and the horse, attempting to get the horse to move, eventually the driver of the carriage gets the horse moving again. The bear proceeds to harass another horse drawn carriage, then returns to the sidewalk and begins to flirt with two peasant women. They smile, but continue on their way. Cut to the bear sitting on the bench with a young man next to him, and a small dog at his feet. Two school boys in their uniforms pass by and pretend to be frightened. A woman walks past, puts her head down, and pays no attention. A young man approaches and they begin to struggle. In the BG, a hand painted sign reading: "Sabala" is visible hanging from the eaves of a buidling. A man stops to take a photograph of the young man fighting with the bear. The man hands the bear money in exchange for his services.

Gdansk and Krakow scenes, daily life in Poland

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Street scenes in Gdansk (Danzig) on ulica Dluga (German: Lange Straße) [see the city hall in BG]. Traffic cop directs traffic in busy town square. Women gaze through shop windows, reflection from outside in. Scenes of a castle and the Dembnicki bridge in Krakow. Some scenes seem to be in the Kazimierz section (Jewish quarter) of Krakow. 01:02:52 CU of the sign on the front of a merchant's shop: "Depot de Vin T. Fukier Fonde en 1610." Town square, a man is wheeling a young boy across the cobblestone plaza in a wooden cart, a few darkly clad figures and a police officer in the BG. 01:03:01 MCU, panning pedestrians as they look at a store window, men in fedoras and trench style coats, women in fur collared jackets and pretty velvet hats. They look at Polish signs and advertisements for the 1937 Worlds Fair, which was held in Paris from May to November.

Going to church in central Poland

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In Lowicz, a young, attractive Polish peasant women is putting on her costume, she wears several layers of skirts, a cropped jacket, and long braids. In the BG a large thatched-roof building is visible. Older peasant woman, who stops while walking along a road to kiss a tree, she then continues on. Quick shot of two women entering a church, dipping their fingers in holy water before entering. CU of older peasant man atop a carriage, the women are piling on their belongings. Young girls, women and men entering the church in traditional costume. One women is dressed in contemporary, Western-style clothing, a camel hair coat and felt hat. CU of the fabric of the peasant skirts.

Industry in Poland, mining in Upper Silesia

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LS of a zinc mine/refinery, labeled in Julien Bryan's original notes as "Catowicz, Silesia - Giesche Zinc Mine." MS, workers in uniform, wearing caps, masks around their necks, on break outside the refinery. VS of the mine and refinery, the machinery in operation inside the refinery: ovens, molten metals, the workers stoking the furnaces, etc. VS, of women sorting pieces of zinc on a conveyor belt before processing. Good shots of quick, nimble fingers at work, several CUs of their hands.

Catholic church service in central Poland

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Undercranked shots (action sped up) inside a Catholic church for services. The church is full with men, women and children. The priest performs the mass facing the altar and the sacristy with his back to the churchgoers. VS of communion, Overhead shot from the pulpit of the congregation.The priest speaks from the pulpit.

Polish Army parade in Warsaw

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EXT, overhead of dozens of horses and horsedrawn wagons on a main street in Warsaw, lined with people on both sides. CU, rear view of soldiers in the Polish Mountain Regiment marching in formation. They wear rounded helmets with large brims and carry rifles with bayonets. They wear capes. A motorcade of motorcycles with side cars makes its way down the street, followed by soldiers marching in formation. Army trucks carry soldiers wearing backpacks.

Kazimierz: market square; street scenes

Film

Market square and vibrant daily life in Kazimierz, Krakow's Jewish quarter. CU, man inspecting a chicken for sale. CU, young girl at the market. High angle view of a prominent spire and statue. Quick shot of a table full of chickens and shoppers set before the Izaak synagogue, which still stands today. Streets in Krakow with shops and inhabitants of the Jewish quarter. A group of school boys following a man with balloons pass by the entrance to a hotel, "Restauracia Kawiarnia Hotelu Mullera". View of another street in the Jewish quarter with children helping an older woman bring hay through an open doorway, preparing for the harvest festival of Sukkot. This small street was captured by renowned photographer Roman Vishniac in his captivating images of Jewish life before the Holocaust. Quick travelling shot of a horse drawn carriage. Several religious men in walk along the street. Quick view of one of Bryan's cameraman, Jules Bucher (screen right). The bustling market square with merchants and shoppers before the Izaak synagogue, followed by street scenes. An elderly couple stands in the doorway of a shop displaying men's clothing and accessories, the name "M. Finkelstein" is above the door. More street scenes. Cut to a horse-drawn carriage and its driver in Krakow's theater district. A poster advertises the comedy team of Dzigan and Schumacher at the ARARAT. Many passersby stop to look at the camera, particularly the children. MLS, a young woman with a suitcase in hand speaks to two men. Four religious Jewish men turn away from the camera quickly, one (screen center) raises his hand to cover his face. Striking CUs of young Jewish boys talking and laughing. 01:02:33 Abrupt cut to barges along the river near the castle in Krakow.

Market square in Krakow, circa 1936

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VS, market square in Krakow, fruit and flower vendors hawk their wares. LS of a row of covered market stalls. VS of buildings in the city. A group of young women on a tour of one of the buildings. All are in uniform. LS of the courtyard of an ornately designed building that may be an art school, according to Julien Bryan's original shot lists. At 01:13:07:15 the scene in Krakow ends, followed by 18 seconds of an outtake from the staged scenes of a Polish peasant family.

Krakow Jewish quarter; business district

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Two orthodox Jews arguing in the street in the Jewish quarter of Krakow at the main market square at the intersection of ul. Sw. Jana and the Rynek Glowny. They lean close to each other in a heated conversation at the door. Street scene in the business district in Krakow, many pedestrians, kiosk, people looking at bookshop/newssatand window. Man walking around with a sign advertising the film premiere of the 1936 American film, and Oscar winner, "Anthony Adverse." Scenes of shops and shop windows, crowded streets full of men, women, children, baby carriages, automobiles, etc. A quick cut to St. Mary Church in the old market square in Krakow and fruit market. In Jewish quarter, Orthodox Jewish men, traditionally dressed, yeshiva boys, horse cart driving away. Poster advertising comedians Dzigan and Schumacher in the BG - the show was on display from May to November 1937.

German siege of Warsaw, Poland 1939; CUs of Poles

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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."

Postwar conditions of housing and YMCAs in Europe and the Far East

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Credits. EXT, bridges in San Francisco and Germany. Bridges at war - soldiers and tanks, bombings. Repaired bridge in Manila in October 1946. Views of damage to buildings in Manila. Children and young people in Manila, food shortages. YMCA services. 01:06:36 Boys club meeting of the YMCA outdoors in Manila. Baseball game. Damaged Y building. INTs, woman cooking in her home; her family eats. Student accommodations. Vocational training - repairing an automobile. Boxing match. Amateur night (musical performance). 01:09:55 Cathedral in Prague. City scenes, some buildings with damage. Two men enter the YMCA building. Boys swimming in pool and playing basketball. Prison. INTs, guillotine. CU, Miloslav Kohac (?), a YMCA staff member and prisoner during World War II. He scrubs the floor. 01:12:55 HAS, Shanghai city in 1947. EXT and INT YMCA buildings. Training men with new vocations in a woodshop. Other YMCAs in China that were destroyed. Children eating at daycare centers and preschool classrooms. 01:14:43 Pile of rubble in Warsaw, Poland, children at play. YMCA building, children enter and play games. Adults eating in a cafe. Boxes of UNRRA supplies are lifted off a ship and distributed. Map animation displaying the locations of damaged YMCAs in need of repairs or young people in need of rehabilitation. Narrator explains the importance of fundraising for the World Youth Fund to help Y staff or others in need in Poland, Philippines, China, Czechoslovakia, and elsewhere, against a landscape of shots of people seen earlier in the film production.

Zinc refinery in Katowice, Poland, circa 1936

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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.

School children in south central Poland, circa 1936

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INT, CU of a man wearing a uniform with an elaborate hat, a fez with a large plume and a metallic embroidered emblem in the center of a hammer and anvil. He slowly removes the hat. Cut to a CU of a framed painting of a woman or man in medieval dress, holding a chalice in one hand and a sword in the other (biblical painting?). Zinc quarry with a CU of a worker drilling into the rock. EXT, MLS, two nuns lead a group of kindergarten age children from a schoolyard onto the street (a rural dirt road). The children file out and smile at the camera. INT, MS, inside the classroom, the young children area seated around a table, stringing beads as a nun walks around the table monitoring their activity. VS of the children engaged in their classroom activities. INT, MS, a one room apartment, a woman at the stove. VS, of the woman with her family, husband and two children in the kitchen area of the room. The young boy adjusts the knob on a radio, the father sits at the table waiting for his food, and the girl sits on the bed until the mother calls everyone to the table for soup. EXT, CU of a young girl talking to a young boy, it seems to be the same boy and girl that were just featured in the dinner table scene. The girl turns to look at the camera.

Daily life in south central Poland, circa 1936

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EXT, VS depicting daily life in south central Poland, near the town of Katowice. Young children, women and men in traditional central Polish dress with large hoop skirts, head scarves, and woven blankets/shawls. The women walk down a dirt road in the village past rows of small houses. The men gather together, talk, and smoke, etc. The men harness their horses to a cart, an old woman gets in the cart, and it drives away. VS, several CUs of the faces of the villagers. Lfe in this farming community, young children playing, men getting water from the central well, a young girl riding a bicycle, etc.

Daily life in Warsaw, 1936

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MLS: town square, women and children are walking through the square. CU of bas relief sculptures on buildings, and a Jewish shop right below in this ornate building. CU of a street vendor blowing up a balloon. Warsaw: VS: park, statues, monument, women out strolling with their babies in fancy carriages. More street scenes, activity, shops, etc. MLS of trolley car as it approaches the camera, the sign on the car reads to Dworska Street.

Funeral; construction, daily life in Warsaw, 1936

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A Christian funeral procession of an unidentified individual through Warsaw, several people walk behind the horse drawn carriage that carries the casket, the pallbearers are in elaborate uniforms. MS construction site in Warsaw, multi-story apartment buildings are going up, the foreman in a dark coat barks orders to all of the workers laying the concrete. MCU, kiosk featuring various newspapers.

Marshall Smigly-Rydz and President Ignacy Moscicki

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A courtyard, rows of chairs set up for an event, Polish soldiers in uniform, flags. Soldiers stand at attention, watching more people assemble, someone sweeps a red carpet, the courtyard fills, pressmen jump around, receiving line is ready, motion picture cameras and still cameras, cameramen running around to catch every angle as dignitary begins to review the troops. Polish planes fly in formation overhead. Arrival of Smigly-Rydz. 01:14:35:16 MCU he tips his hat, looks very stern, does not smile. Ceremony continues, he passes on the scepter to President Ignacy Moscicki, there is a bust of Pilsudski on the red carpet on a pedestal. White horses, Polish cavalry in their Pilsud hats, etc . VS, streets of Warsaw: shops windows are decorated for the important dignitaries, photos, ribbons, military regalia: the entire city of Warsaw celebrates and venerates their leaders.

Nazi Germany outtakes: Nuremberg Rally, Army Day; Cologne Cathedral; trains

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Highlights of this reel of decomposed footage include: Army Day at Nuremberg Nazi Party rally; Cologne cathedral; night time stadium performances in Nuremberg; army cook preparing food for the crowds; youth flight club launching a glider; scenes of the Obersalzburg and its passengers on an airstrip; trains moving through the countryside.

Street scenes in Warsaw, 1936

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Warsaw: Architecture, establishing shots, statues, etc. VS: A building with ornate detailing and bas relief designs and embellishments on it.MS: a woman feeding bread to pigeons, an open square, people move through the area. Different angles on the same square. INT, a dark vestibule in a building, a woman enters and a man exits the building to the bright light of day. The open doorway is the only illuminated part of the shot. Return to the town square, then to surrounding streets, balloon vendor, shops, etc. LS of a palace in Warsaw.

Catholic procession in Lowicz, Poland, 1936 and wedding in city

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Lowicz, Poland, 1936: Preparations for a religious holiday. MS, young girl with a full head of curly blonde hair that is being braided and combed by her mother and her sister in preparation for the ceremony. The entire town seems to be taking part in the celebration. VS of the elaborate celebration. The scenes inside the church seem to under cranked, causing the scenes to move at a faster than normal speed. INT church shots end at 01:09:36. EXT, VS of the procession through town. 01:10:41 Brief cut to a different location, probably a city. Bride and groom exit an automobile and enter a church. The bride is wearing a striped woolen skirt characteristic of the area around Lowicz, Poland. Most of the women and men are dressed in more contemporary clothing, men with ties and hats. CU of the bride and groom entering the church, the groom takes off his hat, and guests follow. 01:10:52 Return to Lowicz with high angle shot of the festivities for Easter Sunday. Townspeople are dressed in traditional, central Polish folk costume. Townspeople riding bicycles, horse drawn wagons, etc.

Men in office

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INT, man sitting at table, staring at wall. INT, office or apartment with two men. Poster on wall reading "Prague 17 XI 1945". Men eating bread, pointing to photographs on wall.

Destruction and rebuilding in Poland circa 1946; country life in Poland, circa 1939

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Children playing in the rubble in the streets of a destroyed, unidentified city. It may be Danzig, it may be Warsaw, or it may be another Polish city. Bricks from fallen buildings are piled high alongside the street, children pick up sticks and whatever they can find and play with the bricks. Vs of the countryside, a pointed roof house, ducks and geese swimming in a pond, men driving tractors across a field (probably in1946 - see notes field). VS of the fields being plowed. CU on the men driving the tractors, the wheels of the machine, etc. EXT, back in the city, a sign on the corner of a building reads: "YMCA", with an arrow pointing in the direction of the YMCA. More shots of destroyed buildings, piles of rubble, young boys clearing up more rubble as men, women and children walk through the streets. Two Polish soldiers walk boy carrying paper parcels under their arms. EXT of the "Polska YMCA", men, women and children enter the building. INT, young boy in a tattered scout uniforms and other tattered clothing put together a puzzle, others play with a model airplane. EXT: snow covers the ground, more destroyed buildings, quick cut to the blueprints for a building. EXT: women sit on folding chairs and wooden crates outside the door to a building, they are beggars. People give them money and they smile for the camera. EXT: a cemetery, several people are in the cemetery laying flowers on graves. A large memorial, Polish soldiers burying their war dead, line up alongside coffins of their fallen comrades, a priest blesses the coffins. The men pass white wooden crosses down the line of soldiers; these crosses will soon mark the graves they are digging. The coffins are put into the ground. EXT: cows in a pasture, a few quick shots of peasant.

Babies at a nursery in Poland after WWII

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Cemetery; postwar housing in Poland

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YMCA in Poland, 1948

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Young boys at the YMCA playing ping pong and boxing.

Factory operations in postwar Poland

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Rebuilding Warsaw after WWII

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Young people, swimming

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Farming in central Poland

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The pastoral countryside of central Poland, a thatched roof house along the river/canal. Four children, barefoot and in peasant dress stand along the water and smile awkwardly for the camera. LS of their house. Townspeople of Lowicz entering the church, in peasant dress. Large ceremony for Easter Sunday. One man, whose coat seems more contemporary and who is also wearing a tie, looks suspiciously at the camera. He then turns to his friend to tell him about the camera, another man turns to look as well. Cut back to the fields, four women and one man tend to their crops.

Scenes from the port city of Gdynia

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LS, EXT, a freight yard as materials are taken off trains, piled in the yard. Workmen move lumber, in the northern port city of Gdynia which is Poland's main port city on the Baltic Sea.

Polish Army parade in Warsaw

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Short clip of a large military procession of Polish troops, including cannons, horses, etc. down a main street in Warsaw.

One-room schoolhouse in central Poland

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LS of young schoolgirls and boys in traditional Central Polish costume walking in an orderly fashion along a dirt road. They walk toward the camera, a hen follows. Blonde girl with long braids in a classroom draws intently. A girl runs on the playground, her head covered with a scarf. LS, brick schoolhouse in the BG. Young boys and girls exit the building to play. Boy on a bicycle in Lowicz. INTof male instructor pointing to Polish letters on a blackboard. An icon image of the Madonna and Child hangs above the board. Two boys recite the letters along with the teacher at the blackboard. Girls at their desks read and write, share the textbook, and write in their notebooks. EXT, a mother and child, both in traditional dress run across a courtyard. Back in the classroom, low light, young girls look up at Bryan's camera. MS, the teacher walks around and reviews the children's progress (more boys than girls in the schoolhouse). EXT, girls in traditional dress walk along a path. Four older men in very heavy coats and hats stand near a stone wall, smoking and talking. A few peasant women pass by. CUs, one man smiles, one continues to smoke, another looks away. EXT, brick and iron gate of a cemetery, a statue of the Madonna atop the gate, several people walking. Several women walk and talk, some holding small bouquets of flowers. They pass a horse drawn carriage and continue on.

Church and schoolyard in central Poland

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EXT, low angle shot of castle tower. Women in traditional dress walk along a country road. Young girls play ball in an open courtyard. LS of the countryside, river reflecting the trees and winding along calmly. Church spires visible far off in the distance. Cut to young girls playing ball in the courtyard. Townspeople exiting (a church?). Quick shot of men and women, then of the street and a horse drawn cart passing by. The brick schoolhouse and the teacher looking at the girls' work. CU, women entering a courtyard through iron gates, coming from the street.

Scenes from the port city of Gdynia

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Workmen hauling lumber around a lumber yard. Furniture, bundles of wooden café style chairs loaded into crates. A women in a fur coat counts some packages or bundles on the ground. Man in uniform observes them. Crane with the bundle of chairs. Back to the lumberyard, several workmen moving and hauling wood around the yard. Crane comes down from the deck of a ship.

Polish Army parade in Warsaw

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Short clip of a large military procession of Polish troops, including cannons, horses, etc. down a main street in Warsaw.

Pupils at Goldschmidt School

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Classroom shots of the Goldschmidt school in Berlin, which was created when Jews were no longer allowed to enroll in public schools. Interiors with students at desks writing and a female teacher. The pupils include Stella Goldschlag, who passed as Aryan during the war and reportedly betrayed Jews in hiding, and Trudi Goldschmidt (01:05:16 the blond girl with braids in profile view), the daughter of the school's founder, Dr. Leonore Goldschmidt. Outside the school during recess, students play and move around the yard before returning to the classroom. Good CUs of teenage boys and girls as they enter the school up the stairs, including Ellen Rosenthal. Inside, Margot Segall, the girl in a plaid dress, approaches the blackboard and conjugates the Hebrew verb "to ask". A male teacher helps her.

Warsaw ruins

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Horse with cart in street, snow-covered ruins of Warsaw ghetto. Pan, WS. Various views.

Farming in central Poland

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MLS, a farming family in the field, in the BG a Gothic looking church. The peasant women turns and takes a break from gathering to look at the camera. A man in traditional Polish costume herds cows in the pasture. Older man using oxen to run a grain threshing machine. Quick cut to the village people in church (ends abruptly).

Staged (comic) sequence in a central Polish village

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Man in a furry bear costume, feigning an attack on a young peasant girl walking along the road, repeated from earlier in this reel.

Church; Bach Museum

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LS, St. Thomas Lutheran Church [this is famous Protestant church where Sebastian Bach played and led choir] in Leipzig, pigeons flying in FG, patrons enter and exit via stairwell. Nurses. Bach Museum in Eisenach, building set off street, German women conversing, Bach-Museum sign, another shot of EXT of museum.

German War Memorial in Berlin

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Funeral/memorial procession in Berlin, men in uniform marching in city streets, large wreath carried at front. Huge parade/military review, marching band, spectators line the streets, bus passes in BG. Guard stands with rifle in doorway German War Memorial (columned building); CU, boots. LS, small crowd gathers at memorial, building with columns seen in LS. EXTs.

Rebuilding Poland

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LS, building, pedestrians in FG, church spires, scaffolding.

Warsaw 1936

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City scenes from moving tram, police officer. Well-dressed Polish civilians moving about the city, crossing the street, traffic, looking into shop windows at women's fur fashions. Posters affixed to pillar, one reads: "Chaplin." Woman selling flowers.

Catholic church celebration and schoolhouse in central Poland

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Polish country scenes, horse-drawn wagons, farmer. MCU of road sign "Zduny 6 km, Lowicz 17km." Preparations for the Easter holiday. Townspeople are dressed in traditional, central Polish folk costume. People are transported in the back of a wagon, riding bicycles, walking to church. General activity surrounding the day's religious festivities. Two young girls in traditional dress, walking towards church, horses with wagons parked in the town square, a young girl with a full head of curly blonde hair that is being braided and combed by her mother and her sister. Church. VAR, EXTs of the elaborate procession. 01:16:44 EXT of newly constructed school house and the schoolyard. INTs of schoolhouse with kindergarten age children after performing on a small stage, sitting at tables with their teacher, drawing. INT, posters. VAR, children learning grammar, studying, using an abacus, etc. EXT, girls play dodgeball in the school courtyard, all are in traditional peasant dress, with large, full skirts and scarves cover their heads. More country scenes, peasant women, farmers picking potatoes, tilling the soil, farm equipment. Comic scene with an older man at a grain mill driven by a horse. Quick shot of a farmer filling a horse drawn wagon with hay. Back to the comic scene, the man is seated on the ground, the arm of the mill that the horses are churning comes closer and closer to his head until it knocks his hat off, a quick series of CUs of this action, the man smiles for the camera.

Couple visits estate

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Couple walks up a driveway to an estate in the Polish countryside. People and dog walk about the property (hunting party?). CU, man with a cane speaks to a peasant woman.

Loading supplies on ship

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EXT American flag on a ship in FG looking across water to a large building on shore in BG. Crane loading supplies on a ship. Looking up at crane from between rows of railway cars. Men moving load of wood. Men working in a lumber yard. CU of men carrying wood.

Train

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Train moves towards and then past the camera.

1948 documentary short about Poland (reel 1)

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Reel 1. Title cards read “THE INTERNATIONAL FILM FOUNDATION PRESENTS” then “POLAND,” “THE COUNTRY AND THE PEOPLE,” and additional credits appear over an illustration of a flag with the Polish eagle. EXT Wawel Cathedral in Kraków. River and raft in FG, Wawel Cathedral in BG. People walking in a courtyard. (01:10) Map with illustration of Kraków and labeled “UNION OF POLAND-LITHUANIA AND RUTHENIA.” EXT market in front of St. Mary's Basilica. Additional buildings, courtyards, and street views. Sandomierska Tower. Many people walking in the streets. Sigismund's Column in Warsaw. Sign next to a doorway reads “SKLAD WIN T. FUKIER EGZYSTUJE OD 1610 R.” CU of sign that reads “DEPOT DE VIN T. FUKIER FONDE EN 1610.” Architectural details of a lion and a face on a building. Palace on the Isle (Pałac Na Wyspie), also known as Baths Palace in Warsaw. (03:07) Map of Europe with “POLAND” labeled. Animation shows the area of Poland in 1795, then 1914. EXT River with spires in distance. Horse drawn cart on street. Two people walking up the drive of a building with four columns. CU Front door, man and dog emerge and greet the woman. People walking grounds, man with cane gesturing. Horses and cows. People sorting through piles of vegetables. CU Men smoking. Horse powered farm machinery. (05:11) EXT Women sitting in a square with market wares on blankets before them. Cart of live geese wheeled past. Market. Two young children in traditional dress. Two women walking up lane with geese. Women and children passing through the gate. Religious procession in the street. Altar boys and people holding candles. Many people in traditional costume walk down a hill. CU men smoking pipes. Farm and children walking through the farmyard. Men enter room and greet the women sitting within. One woman is churning butter. Woman cooking potatoes in a skillet. EXT men and women in traditional costume dancing. (08:25) EXT Horse drawn carts on dirt roads. People walk along dirt road. Boy with goat on a rope. CU man with white hair and beard. Cobbled street in Jewish quarter with man selling balloons. Storefronts. CU Store sign reads “M FINKELSTEIN 1896.” CU Old Jewish man and women in front of the store. CU Boys talking. Alleyway with arch, balconies, and stairway. CU Poster with “TYDZIEN SZKOLY POWSZECHNEJ” text and before and after type illustration of a school. EXT children exit school building. Catholic nun teacher leads group of young children. CU Young children walking past. (10:08) Frederic Chopin Monument in Warsaw. Many prams in the park. CU Baby bouncing in a pram. Family with pram and young children walking up a path.

1948 documentary short on Poland (reel 2)

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Reel 2. Street scenes, buses, people on sidewalks. Trolley with sign reading “DWORSKA”. Inside a trolley full of passengers. View out the trolley windshield at street, people waiting to board and a policeman standing on a median. Sidewalk scenes, two men walking by with boots over their shoulders, women looking at a cart displaying wares. Boy runs by with newspapers under his arm. People stand on the sidewalk reading papers in front of a large poster with “IRENA DUNNE” headline. Newspaper stand. Funeral parade and hearse led by people carrying wreaths. Horse and cart passing on street in front of building with “DZWIGI” sign. Construction site with a man pushing a wheelbarrow. Additional street scenes of pedestrians and vehicles. People stand beside train tracks as a train passes. Men board the train and look out from the railcar door. (01:45) Factory smokestacks wreathed in steam. INTs factory, hot metal cylinder pulled from furnace. CU molten metal being poured into molds labeled “GIESCHE-ELECTROLYT.” Men shovel fuel into a furnace. Woman pours drinks from large pitcher into mugs of the factory workers. CU worker drinks from mug. Girls sort bits of metal on a conveyor belt. CU hands sorting. Girl with an earring with the sign “ODPADY” behind her. More shots of hands and girls sorting. (02:36) EXT Elevated tracks, the surface of a mine. INT Men working in a mine shaft, shoveling loads into carts. CU man using a pickaxe. Loading carts to be taken to the surface. Miners leave the shaft and come to the surface. Men walk their bikes. (03:23) Map with illustration of a factory labeled “SILESIA.” Animation of train tracks leading from the factory to the Baltic sea. Train passes camera. Building with “GDYNIA” sign. Port and ships. Coal being loaded onto a ship. LS of cranes. Men pushing a load of wood. (04:11) Some overlap with Film ID: 3004 Trolley passes in front of a clock tower and other buildings. Street and tall row houses. River lined with buildings. Unloading boat. Girls walk three in a row down a street while holding a Hitler youth flag. Polish army marches. Portraits in a window display of Polish statesmen Józef Piłsudski, Ignacy Mościcki, and Edward Rydz-Śmigły. CU of portraits of Ignacy Mościcki and Józef Piłsudski beneath a dark ribbon. More shots of portraits in shop windows. Ceremony where President Mosczieksky passes the baton to Marshall Smigly-Ridz. Polish soldiers on horseback using horses for crowd control. Polish Cardinal Hlond. Boys perched in trees to watch the parade. Polish military marches in parade. Young women wearing traditional costumes while watching. (05:54) Sky full of airplanes passing. Map of Poland with a large swastika to the West. Animation of hands coming out of swastika and grabbing Poland. Coat of arms of Poland being removed by Nazi soldiers. Airplanes in the sky. Polish propaganda posters. Polish military on horseback, using artillery, and machine guns. Tanks and trucks during the German siege of Warsaw, beginning WWII, in September 1939. Blown up bridge. People in streets, civilians helping to dig trenches. Airplanes and bombings. People sort through rubble. Several bodies of people who died in the German bombings. CU Woman cries. Woman in window with religious statue. Boy holds a birdcage amongst the rubble. Women walk through the debris and pray at the foot of a cross. People wait in line for bread. INT Hospital hallway lined with nurses tending to babies. CU babies. CU older woman crying. Nurses bandage the leg of a patient. CU boy with a bloody bandage over his eye. (08:19) View of the smoking city from the air. Fires raging. Scrolling title card with years 1940 to 1944 with flames. Map of Poland 1945. LS across the river towards ruined buildings. Damaged buildings from the street. Woman pouring from a bottle into the mug of a Soviet soldier. CU Soviet soldier drinking from a mug. Soldier holding bouquet of flowers gives a woman a kiss. Buildings in ruins. Damaged trolley. Trolley going by, full of people and decorated with wreaths. People shoveling rubble. Smiling girl holding a blanket and chatting with a soldier. Women using pickaxes to load carts on a track. Women rebuilding a railroad track. Men pulling on a rope to pull down the wall of a damaged building. Children walking in a line on a street lined with rubble. CU of children eating and drinking out of mugs. THE END over an illustration of a flag with the Polish eagle.

Liberating Soviet soldier

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Voice over in Russian. Tank driving up the street as people on either side wave. Soviet soldier with bouquet of flowers gives woman a kiss. She pours from a bottle into the mug of a Soviet soldier. CU soldier drinking. CU of man in uniform smoking.

Young boys box in Poland

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Two boys boxing in a ring before an audience of boys. Man waves a towel over one of the seated boxers during a break. Boxing resumes. CU boy raises arms in victory. They box and one boy falls to the ground. The other boy falls to the ground but gets up as well. One of the boys falls to the ground, dramatically tries to rise, but stays down. Winner. CU friend watches. (02:10) EXT building with sign “SWIETLICA ROBOTNICZA.” A man and a boy walk through a gate and towards a building entrance. INT boys boxing while others watch. Boxers raise gloves to the audience. CU children eating out of bowls. Instructor leads boys in exercises. The man and the boy (seen earlier) are greeted and shake hands with the instructor. Boys run and box in place. Instructor shows a boy how to hold his head and fists.

Factory workers in Poland, postwar

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INT barbershop, men getting shaved. CU men being shaved. CU woman washing her hands, factory in BG. Woman exits coat room as load of wound wool rolls by. Men receive bowls of food from women in cafeteria kitchen. CU men and women exchangetickets for bowls of food. INT machines winding spools of wool. Women working at the machines. Man repairing one of the machines, CUs. A different machine. CU as machine combs the wool. Wool on spool. Women load spools of wound wool onto machines. Workers seated at tables in a cafeteria eating. CUs. Machining metal parts. CU men at the machines. Man checks the dimensions of the metal parts. Men seated at tables making shoes. CU, one of the shoemakers is missing a leg. CU, man uses a comb to hold his hair back while he works. Schedule of workday. One of the hours labeled “TECHNIKA REKL.” Men work with pen and paper at desks, a supervisor walks around. CU men at desks drawing three dimensional letters, one of the men has a prosthetic leg.

Classroom lessons, postwar

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Boys seated at desks in a classroom with a teacher. Boys stand up and pack up books. Two boys begin roughhousing, the teacher takes one of them by the arm and leads him away. Teacher talks to the boy while gesturing at a paper. Boy takes paper and leaves. CU, boy’s face. CU boys smiling, looking at the paper. CU boy’s feet swinging under the desk. Shot over the boy's shoulder of drawings of boxers. Teacher sees boys looking at paper during class and takes it away. CU hands holding bucket, tapping with a brush. (04:30) Woman in coat jogs across street and walks through a gate. Door with sign “ŻŁOBEK i PRZEDSKOLE.” Woman exits the gate holding a young child and is met by a man who takes the child from her. INT classroom, teacher takes away the paper with the boxing drawings from the boy. CU boys write in notebooks with pens. They tease one another. CU poster of workers with “KTO WYZEJ PODNIESIE PRODUKCJE?”.

Children at school

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INTs Teacher in her home with a dog, She arranged books, puts on coat, and exits. Woman (teacher) at head of a classroom full of children. Brief shot of men setting up large lights. Woman using an abacus to teach the children. They learn. Children raise hands in the classroom. CU student. Children walk beside puddles underneath large power lines. Children run up the muddy road and through the door of a school as a boy rings a bell by the doorway. CU children answering questions in class. EXT group of boys playing with a ball, fields and power lines in BG. INT, woman sitting at desk writing, CUs, drawing with a Christmas tree.

Boxing

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Boys seen through a doorway playing ping pong. Two men and a boy walk through the doorway and watch the boys play. CUs, boys. They shadowbox. They scramble to grab boxing mitts off the floor. Boys lace up boxing gloves. Two pairs of boys practice while the instructor and other boys watch. CU boxing. Boys walk down stairs with wrought iron railing.

Krakow's Jewish quarter: shops, merchants

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MCU, street corner of the Jewish quarter in Krakow, a women in contemporary dress and three Jewish men peek out from behind the shoulder of a man with his back to the camera. Sign across the street for a merchant's shop: "SALOMON DIAMANT". Several shots of Jewish men in orthodox garb, with beards, standing on street corners talking and suspiciously watching the camera, one covers his face, and they move along.

Postwar Poland

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A partially edited film sequence about a Polish family in postwar conditions. INT A young boy picking up and arranging his school books. CU Boy doing school work. Man (the father?) enters the room and shows a box to the boy, boy shadow boxes, man takes boy by the ear and they leave together. CU Boy shadow boxing as man pinches his ear. CU Man speaking. In the kitchen, a woman (the mother?) lights the stove, the man enters and she passes him a bucket as he leaves. Two boys run down stairs, pick up and open the box, then leave through a doorway. CU Two boys opening the box. CU Cigarettes inside the box. Boys hiding the box in a pile of lumber. Man opening the door and picking up the box from the lumber pile. Boys placing the box in the lumber pile and closing the door. 3:35 Woman walks into a room holding a cup of tea. Boy walks into the room and begins eating while looking at a book at the table. Boy reads and eats. Textbook and magazine with a boxer on the cover. Boy enters room and takes away the magazine. The two boys begin roughhousing and leave. Man puts a child in a crib. He reads the boxing magazine and shakes his head. Woman (the mother?) arrives home. Little boy (seen earlier) opens door. Father sits at table with young child on his lap. Boy comes in and the younger child points out a mark on his cheek.

Children's hospital in Poland, postwar

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CU Female doctor speaking while wearing a stethoscope. Nurse and doctor administer a tuberculosis test to a boy. The doctor palpates a small child’s chest and listens to her breathing. A radiologist takes an X-ray of the child’s chest. X-rays being evaluated. CU X-ray of lungs. Doctor writing. Boy helping a younger boy TB patient take off his jacket and outer shirt and tucking him into bed. Boy waking up in bed and a woman preventing him from getting dressed. The woman helps the boy wash at sinks where other boys are also washing. Woman brushes the boy’s teeth as another boy laughs. 4:38 Woman speaking and holding the chin of the now dressed boy. Boys receiving food spooned onto their plates. Boys eating while seated at a table. CU Boys eating. Boys doing schoolwork begin roughhousing and are led away by a woman. CU Boys doing schoolwork. Boys reading. Boys elbowing each other at the table. Boys begin fighting and are led away by a woman. Woman helping a boy with his schoolwork.

Children and ruins in postwar Poland

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EXT Boy pulling cart in the street. Boys with a dog digging in rubble. Boy riding a scooter past rubble. Ruined buildings. CU Traffic officer. Traffic officer directing traffic. Building under construction. Horse drawn cart passes hauling dirt or rubble. Boys and a dog playing in rubble. Two children, a boy and a girl, walk up a street of damaged buildings as men work in the BG. Damaged buildings. Man using a pick on a damaged wall. Debris falling through a damaged building. A boy and girl walk up a street of damaged buildings. Boy and girl pick through rubble. Boy and girl on a street corner holding newspapers. Boy and girl holding hands walk towards the camera with ruined buildings in BG. Boy and girl trying to sell papers on the street corner. A man exits the building and shoos the children away. CU Papers being gone through. Children playing tag in the street. Boys running down a pile of rubble. Boys standing in the street and pointing off camera. A boy jumps off bricks. Boy standing in the street chewing something.

Edited film sequence documenting war destruction and rebuilding of life in postwar Poland

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EXT Camera pans across trees against the sky and then down across a cemetery. Flowers with damaged buildings in the BG. King John III Sobieski monument. CU Face of a bearded statue. 01:06 EXT Woman in black sitting on a park bench. Lit candles with a brick wall and image of the cross in the BG. Flowers. Title card reads “POWROT DO ZYCIA.” [Return to Life]. CU Street lamp. Polish soldier missing a leg and using crutches walks up a dark street. Concentration camp survivor? in striped uniform with a knapsack walks up a dark street. Street scenes of ruined buildings. Birds flying in ruins. A woman feeds the birds on the ruined street. A goat nurses her kid with a bombed out building in the BG. In the ruined street a man hoists a bucket. A little boy stacks tiles. Multiple shots of men laying bricks, shoveling, and sawing. A bucket being hoisted up. Men on scaffolding. Building with scaffolding. Finished building without scaffolding. 04:43 EXT Women sunbathing. Man diving off a high dive. Swimmers jumping in a pool. Splashing in the pool. Little girls playing with a small watering can in the pool. Many people jogging by the pool, hills in the distance. People splashing in the waves. A dog swimming. People playing in the waves with a beach and building in the BG. A building with the sign “DOM-GORNIKA” behind bushes and trees. Men playing with a ball on the beach. A woman running after the ball as it rolls away. Women walking past netting. Sequence repeats. 06:42 Train passing, people waving. CU Wheels of train. CU Women with their heads out the windows of the train. Hills and countryside, the train is passing. Man with a camera among trees, people run by behind him. People in bathing suits running on a path through the trees to a small lake. Running and splashing in the water. A woman pulling herself out of the water. A windmill and tree silhouetted against fog.

German siege of Warsaw, Sept. 1939

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Warsaw, Poland 1939: Refugees on the streets of Warsaw, VS of people in the immediate aftermath of a German air raid. CU: a young woman is very uncomfortable with the camera on her, she holds her hand to her face, her expression is between a smile and despair, she is trying to remain composed for the camera. MS, a woman carries a bundle of all of her belongings wrapped in a blanket on her back as she flees from her neighborhood on the outskirts of Warsaw's city center that has been under attack by the Germans. 01:12:17: Dead horse, covered in lime, being dragged from the middle of the street by a group of men. VS of the dead horse, very unpleasant to look at, a symbol of the agony of the city. Polish refugees on the move, several families, VS of men, women and children, against the backdrop of a crumbling city, many are heading to makeshift shelters after their homes have been destroyed. 01:13:33 Julien Bryan with the people of Warsaw, standing in the rubble with them, a crowd gathers and they are all cheering for him, shaking his hand, giving him food, etc, Bryan smiles somewhat awkwardly and turns for a moment to the camera. NOTE THERE IS A PROBLEM WITH THE SPEED OF THE FILM HERE. THIS SHOT IS RUNNING AT SLOWER SPEED, MOST LIKELY THE CAMERAMAN WAS OVERCRANKING THIS SHOT. BRYAN DID NOT HAVE HIS USUAL CAMERA CREW WITH HIM ON THIS TRIP. THE CAMERA IS MOST LIKELY IN THE HANDS OF AN INEXPERIENCED CAMERA OPERATOR. BRYAN HAD A POLISH INTERPRETER AND ASSISTANT ASSIGNED TO HIM BY THE MAYOR OF WARSAW. 01:14:35: More scenes of the wreckage in Warsaw; bombed out rail cars, smoldering power lines, destroyed market, etc. A soldier surveys the wreckage at the rail yard. VS of soldiers walking through wreckage. VS of the destroyed hospital in Warsaw.

Schoolhouse and countryside in Zlakow Koscielny, Poland 1937

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Zlakow Koscielny, Poland (near Lowicz) 1937: images of small town life in this central Polish town. INT: kindergarten age children playing and performing a circle dance on a small stage under the direction of their teacher. VS, children studying, EXT of newly constructed school house and the schoolyard. Images cut back and forth between school children and townspeople going about their daily routines. EXT: girls play dodgeball in the school courtyard, all are in traditional peasant dress, with large, full skirts and scarves cover their heads. One girl is barefoot and has her head uncovered revealing two long braids. Excellent footage of the girls playing. 01:03:55:00: INT MCU of a male instructor at a blackboard. VS of women farming, horse drawn wagons full of hay. 01:05:36:28: MCU of road sign" Zduny 6 km, Lowicz 17km. More country scenes, peasant women, farmers picking potatoes, tilling the soil, picking and cleaning turnips (the turnips are very large), a young boy and his father sit in a pile of turnips cleaning them and preparing them for market; alternates between the scenes of farming and INTs of schoolhouse with children studying, using an abacus, learning grammar, etc. Comic scene with an older man at a grain mill that is being driven by two horses, the man is seated on the ground, guiding the horses andd the arm of the mill that the horses are churning comes closer and closer to his head until it knocks his hat off, a quick series of CUs of this action, the man smiles for the camera. This footage is beautifully rendered and paints a very charming and peaceful portrait of life in this region circa 1936/37. The images of the children are particulary touching.

German siege of Warsaw, Sept. 1939

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The first days of September 1939, Warsaw, Poland under siege: MCU of German soldiers who are prisoners of the Poles, talking, smoking, cutting one cuts another's hair. It is believed that the soldier who is seated in the shot is a German Jewish soldier, according to Julien Bryan's accounts of this footage. This is NOT a confirmed fact. VS of destruction; people climbing over rubble, looking for their belongings that may remain in the wreckage of their homes. A young boy with a pet canary in a cage that survived the bombings. CUs of the dead and wounded. A woman plants a memorial of branches and twigs at a makeshift grave. LS of a plaza in Warsaw, two men with armbands walk across the plaza.VS of the streets, people gathering in doorways, talking to each other, unsure of what will happen next. 01:10:53:16: children and women gathered in a doorway, quick cut to more rubble, several quick shots of refugees looking bewildered; CU of an overturned pushcart; civilians talk and point nervously with soldiers; citizens brigades in the street standing guard;CUs of posters, anti-German propaganda. A very quick shot of refugees walking toward a large municipal building with all of their bundles, civic buildings were now serving as shelters. LS of citizen soldiers; people filing into a large building; VS from a rooftop to the street below: busy street, Red Cross bus drives down the tram tracks in the middle of the street; young boy handing out leaflets; streams of men with their belongings. 01:13:15:22 people in the streets looking nervously over their shoulders as they go about their daily tasks worrying when the next attack will come. 01:13:25: INT, church sequence: church in Warsaw that has been damaged by German bombs (under-cranked, low light).01:13:51:15: Sandbagged corner building in Warsaw. MS, women, children, and soldier on the street, a mother fixes her child's hair; LS, from rooftop of a large bomb induced crater. VS in and around the crater that is surrounded by people and soldiers surveying the damage.

Folk dancing in Zakopane, Poland 1936

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Folk dancing in Zakopane, Poland, 1936. A group of male and female folk dancers perform a series of circle dances in full costume in an open field. It seems to be an exhibition, staged for a small local audience or perhaps simply for Julien Bryan and his camera crew. Bryan did film several circle dances throughout his travels, as a sort of comparative study of folk dances throughout the world.

Street scenes in Latvia, circa 1937

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Street scenes, streetcars, bicycles, automobiles, people on the move, traffic cop in busy intersection at the crossing between the Old Town and the Freedom Monument Plaza in Riga, Latvia. 01:00:35 The Latvian Freedom Monument, the letters inscribed on the monument read: TEVZEMEI UN BRIVIBAI [To Fatherland and Freedom], a soldier stands guard at the base, pan up the same monument to the statue of a woman holding 3 gold stars above her head. This is the Freedom Monument in old town Riga. Side street with a view of Riga Town Hall Square, a woman is cleaning the street with a hose and water. LS of the river Daugava and ships docked at the Riga Commercial Port. Riga Castle (the President’s palace). 01:01:32 LS of Riga Old Town from the Stone Bridge with trolley and pedestrian traffic, St. Peter’s Church in the BG, closer shots of civilians walking across the bridge. Men review “Subscriptions and Advertisements” for a local newspaper. Man on a pay phone outside of Agrobank of Latvia, VS, CUs of the man on the phone. Street scenes, daily life, with the candy factory, “Laima” shop.

Street scenes in Danzig, circa 1937

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Danzig, street scenes: streetcars, buses, supply trucks, shops, civilians going about their daily routines. 01:04:12:00 LS of trolley traveling down tracks in the center of the street. Nazi insignia and flags are visible everywhere, in every window of every building, most buildings have multiple flags displayed; continues with more street scenes of the entire street full of Nazi flags and banners. CU of sign for Adolf Hitler Strasse. MS of Hitler Youth, three young boys pose for the camera and smile; more shots of all the Nazi banners, stormtroopers, etc; 01:06:17:24 MCU of sign that reads: "1937 Kreisparteitag Langfuhr" large field being prepared for a Nazi party rally. A large Nazi insignia is being constructed of wood at one end of the field. A crowd of people wait to enter an unidentified location. VS of the docks of Danzig, horses being loaded onto ships. VS of boats in the harbor, a captain aboard his ship, etc.

Georgia, Caucasus Mountains, circa 1933

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Horseback riding in mountains, a group of men and women together at a table on a terrace, eating. LS of country home, nurses seated at a table on the terrace, examining the woman, they ask her questions, write down her responses, etc. They seem to be bourgeoisie on vacation in the mountains. ** This reel has an incorrect title, because the can for this reel was mislabeled; this is actually footage from the early 1930s, shot in Georgia, in the Caucasus Mountains.

Georgia, Caucasus Mountains, circa 1933

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Peasants baking bread, harvesting grain, going about their daily lives in this rural, mountainous region. This footage is stunning. Julien Bryan himself is featured in this footage. He traveled at this time with the noted anthropologist Maurice Hindus and a group of Princeton University students on a journey through Russian villages. Several of the students can also be seen in this sequence. They traveled with local guides, with horses and mules through the mountains. VS of their local guides, the mountains, children and women in the villages, sifting grain and baking flatbread, local men herding goats on the mountainside. Julien Bryan and one of the locals try to learn each other's language by writing down words and letters and exchanging pieces of paper. VS, beginning with a MCU of a pig and her suckling young. Good views of the traditional dwellings that are built into the mountainside, getting water at the local well. The sequence ends on a charming scene of two young boys eating fresh picked cherries from their baskets, their mouths are covered with cherry juice, as they continue to eat the fruit and smile for the camera. ** This reel has an incorrect title, because the can for this reel was mislabeled; this is actually footage from the early 1930s, shot in Georgia, in the Caucasus Mountains.

Mining in Upper Silesia

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CU of molten zinc ore and metal engraving blocks. Scenes inside the zinc refinery in Katowice, the largest industrial town of Upper Silesia, Poland. CUs of men putting materials into the furnaces. Cut back to the countryside.

Farming in central Poland

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Man herds cows, man herds sheep, a woman helps. MS of a young boy and girl in traditional dress, posing in the field, each holds a stick used for herding the animals. They smile shyly for the camera. Other children play in the field, run down a hillside. MCU of the couple. Cut to a country road, man drives a horse drawn carriage loaded with hay; a woman walks along the road. Several shots of the road, a lake, and thatched roof house.

An American girl describes her visit to Poland

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Film summary from International Film Foundation promotional materials: Mary, an American elementary school girl, describes to her class her experiences in visiting her grandparents in Poland. In her own language she takes her class into a Polish school, into Polish homes, and into the fields where agricultural activities are seen. She shows them the beautiful costumes and colorful dances of the Polish people and gives her class an insight into the cities of Lowicz, Krakow, Zakopane, and Gdynia. Music by Gene Forrell, Devised by Eugene Cenkalski Film ID 3073 = 35mm black and white nitrate positive with sound Film ID 3074 = 35mm black and white nitrate silent fgm (fine grain master)

Polish children after WWII

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SEQ: Kids hold hands and dance. Parents with their child. The teacher? eats. Boys in a woodshop learn how to plane wood. Boys practice with a hand tool and push lumber through a saw. EXT children slide at a playground. Boys on a seesaw. Children play with blocks and small wooden shapes at tables indoors. They hold hands in small groups and high-step. Boy reads and eats. Textbook and magazine with a boxer on the cover. Boy enters room and takes away the magazine. The two boys begin roughhousing and leave. Man puts a child in a crib. He reads the boxing magazine and shakes his head. Woman (the mother?) arrives home. Little boy (seen earlier) opens door. Father sits at table with young child on his lap. Boy comes in and the younger child points out a mark on his cheek.

Nurses with young patients

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Dormitory-style room full of young children in beds and nurses. Nurses read. The children listen, look at the pictures, and play with toys in bed. Girl runs out to balcony, a nurse follows. LS of pond and trees. The nurse and the patient look out at the view together and chat. Patient is wheeled down a hallway, the plaster cast on her leg is cut off. She practices walking without her cast and gets a piece of candy. Child writes on a paper with a Christmas tree on it. Children bundled up on deck chairs outdoors on a balcony. A nurse helps tuck them in. They close their eyes or read. Brief shot of ornate crucifix and statuary. CU nurse and a girl. Little girls share their drawings and pass around a doll baby.

Warsaw and Danzig, Poland, destruction and rebuilding circa 1946

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Bombed out multi-story YMCA building in Warsaw, Poland. Several workers chip away at the concrete structure, others collect and stack bricks from the rubble. Another worker examines window frames for damage. (This footage likely dates to 1946 - see notes section for further information). MS, low angle, a man and a woman walk down a bombed out street in Warsaw, toward the camera, snow covers the ground. VS of the destruction in the city, civilians mill about the streets, with torn, threadbare clothing, there are some Polish military personnel in these shots as well. Poles board a street car, young children purchase flowers from a street vendor. INT: men and boys inside what seems to be YMCA club-they are in a café, reading newspapers in English and Polish, and drinking. EXT: low angle a view of the bombed out Deutsche Bank building. The camera pans the sign, and then cuts to another building, also damaged. EXT: the locations shifts to Danzig: where we see more destruction of that city, along the canals, etc. CU of a bombed out building in Danzig with German signage above the entrance. Scenes at the port in Danzig they echo Julien Bryan's 1937 footage shot in this city, however now the entire port is in ruins. The banks along the canal are crumbling. INT: Young Polish boys play checkers at a shelter/community center in Warsaw and read "Zycwe Warszawy", CU on checkerboard with pawns in play. The boys compare stories in the newspapers; the camera focuses on a political cartoon of a man with a caption underneath him that reads: "Pacifista". Three boys put a puzzle together in the corner of a room, seated at a round wooden table. Scene quickly cuts to INT, high angle, a warehouse that is storing UNRRA supplies. Two men go through wooden crates and hand out clothing and home supplies to women and children. INT: boys playing board games and pool. INT: young women are lead in a series of calisthenics in a large gymnasium. The instructor is male. VS, close-ups on the various young women as they perform their exercise routine.

Warsaw in ruins

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CUs, men pointing to architectural drawing of building with damaged structure in BG. Men standing in ruins. WS, Warsaw in ruins. Horses/cart in FG. Men digging. Snow-covered rubble.

YMCA boys, boxing

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Group of boys at YMCA in shorts, smiling, boxing, rolling carpet out to box. Various shots.

The legacy of Martin Luther in Germany

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In Wittenberg, MS, church where Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses. Inserted title: "To the political leader, the religious doctrines of his people must be inviolable!" -Hitler in "Mein Kampf". Subsequent title: "Nazis praise, dead 400 years - but in 1938 Germany's new Luther, Martin Niemoeller, is in prison." In Eisenach, EXT, "Luther-Haus / Lutherkellar." Women on street in front of building. MS, ornate lightpost, CU, Luther tablet engraving on side of building. 01:00:34 MS, HJ boys marching in line in front of church, piles of dirt/rubble in FG. CU, inscription/art above church door. Man opening doors to church.

Children's hospital

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Children living among the ruins in Warsaw, postwar

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Rebuilding life: refugees board trains in Germany; learn English

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(Color) CUs, weaved crafts. 01:00:37 Displaced persons (DPs) on a transport sponsored by the IRO. DPs get off a truck with luggage and board a train. Handwriting on the side of the train says "US emigr. via Bremen." DPs lean out the windows of the train to look at the camera and talk to IRO officers. Uniformed men and women with badges stating "IRO", "US Committee", and "USCOM." DPs wave and the train departs. CU, luggage. 01:04:35 Blurry footage for three minutes with more takes of men, women, and children boarding the train. Wide views of the train station. 01:07:22 Two official men stand at a microphone next to the train and read from papers, a crowd listens. DPs hang out of the train windows and wave goodbye as the train departs. 01:08:42 A large group of adults sit outside and listen to an instructor. A young woman writes a Walt Whitman quote in English on a chalkboard. Small groups read books together outside. Multiple takes - seems staged. Young couple walks next to a building. DPs walk under a sign banner that reads "Church World Service Language Institute". 01:13:32 The students line up on the stairs outside the church as an instructor reads to them. 14:48 CU, another CWS sign, LAUF. CU, students reading. WS, CWS campus.

Nazi Party Congress in Nuremberg

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In Adolf Hitler Platz in Nuremberg, Germans salute/heil en masse for the Party Congress, soldiers marching in BG are barely seen, VAR shots of spectators heiling. LS, parade with flags. View of spectators in windows (some flanked with Nazi flags and flower boxes). Closer shots of parade with swastika flags, drummers, crowd saluting. Hitler arrives, salutes crowd from middle of square. More goose-stepping. Close shots of Nazi elites in uniform. In crowd, brown shirt purchases hot dog and bun from a female vendor. More LSs of Nazi elite, including Goering, Goebbels, Hess, and others standing in middle of Nuremberg's square. Movie cameras set atop automobiles. More soldiers parading, BDM walking in FG across square, crowd saluting, BDM handing out paper bags of food to official guests (seated). 01:07:09 EXT, clock tower figurines (the 7 prince electors saluting Emperor Charles V in the middle) turn at noon. Seen from rear, crowd salutes in stadium stands at the Nazi Party Rally; pan down to bookstore built in the stands. Swastika prominently displayed on church. Men salute from the stands. Men gather in front of book store to see poster advertising Bavarian clergy, including Bishop Faulhaber. In city square, swastika prominently displayed on church, crowd salutes, soldiers marching, more shots of Germans saluting. 01:09:07 Airplanes in review at Nazi Party Congress, land demonstration, cannons, etc. Crowd looks up at planes, salutes, land review, fighting, crowd. 01:10:04 Nazis with foreign diplomats/representatives (possibly Spanish & Italian fascists), VAR CUs. Marching band and soldiers parade out of tent camp where the 20,000 men camp while they march at Nuremberg, preparing food for military in tent camp, soldiers receive portions of beef in canteen.

Warsaw street scenes; construction; shops, women

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MCU, passengers boarding a train. Uniformed conductor or a police officer stands on the platform. Young man in knickers and a cap looks at the camera before boarding, another young boy comes up behind him to board. Building under construction in Warsaw, the sign reads: "Dzwigi Bracia Jenike" and another "Felzytyn Skalenit" Shop window with female mannequins. MLS, on the street in Warsaw, three women at a fruit vendor's stand. MS, architectural detail and supports of a building. Fabric store window with a mannequin, a woman looks from the street. Passersby turn toward the camera. Woman continues to shops for table service and to a women's clothing store featuring a "jesień" [autumn] collection. She admires the fur collared coats from outside the shop with another woman.

Yiddish production (?) of Shakespeare play in Russia

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An excerpt from a stage production of Shakespeare's "Romeo & Juliet."

Daily life in Russia, children at play

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Children playing in the snow in Russia, exact location needs to be verified. Great shots of the children with their sleds, some on ice skates, etc. 01:02:15 MCU of 10+ children on sleds, getting ready to go down a hill in tandem, they start the line up and just keep going, very playful shots. CUs of young girl smiling at 01:02:33, then boy, then group of children.

Russian Christian Orthodox church service

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EXT, LS of unidentified factory, quickly cuts to an INT scene in an orthodox church whre people receive communion, exact location and date, as well as the reason for the service are unknown; images of Russian iconography. EXT, church procession, large crowds are gathered outside the church. This is a different location and church than the church featured in the first scene of this story. 01:07:23:25 CU of a bearded Russian Orthodox priest reading from a book of scripture outside the church, the pages of the book are blowing in the wind. VS, several angles on the priest and the congregation outside in the cold and snow. The camera pans a sea of Russian peasant woman's faces; many are making the sign of the cross.

Russian Jewish religious services

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Rebuilding Jewish life after the war in Russia. Two rabbis put away Torah scrolls and pull a curtain with an embroidered Star of David closed. CUs of individual Jewish men praying. A larger group of men in prayer shawls gather for a service, and a cantor sings toward the end of the sequence. The exact location, date, and purpose of the religious service are unknown.

Daily life in Russia, children at play

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Russian children playing along a river that is frozen over. They are play fighting with each other and skating around on the frozen water. One boy has dug a hole through the ice and is searching for something in the water, the other boys gather round. Play sequence continues until 01:12:47:00 where the subject shifts to scenes of the rural countryside, the camera pans landscape: establishing shots, subject returns to children on the river playing and pretending to be sword fighters.

Linz, Austria, 1948

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Austrian footage, c. 1948 in Linz, a factory town where several DPs were put to work and began rehabilitation postwar. Scene of men leaving the factory on bikes, some women, some children, and several Austrians (non DPs) are in the group as well. Another group of men walking from the factory, at the gate, exiting the factory grounds, there is a guard who checks them as they exit. Truckloads of workers also exit the factory- they are all seated in open military style supply trucks.VS, EXTs the factory in Linz, smoke stacks, etc. INT of the factory: men at work, VS. A rail car pulls up to the station. Metal is being cast, shots of the molten metal. VS, barges on a river, train heading toward the camera, then moving away from camera, factory sequence and pan of Austrian hillside.

Linz and Salzburg, Austria, 1948

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VS in Linz, Austria: trolley cars, street scenes, etc. MCU people look at the camera as they board a street car. Street cars, motorcycles, bicycles, traffic cops. CUs at 01:22:00:00 of posters advertising film screenings and other events. Date on poster is August 1948. The film being advertised is called "Spuk" it is a joint US-AUSTRIA production, more posters for Folk festivals, and other events in September 1948, and another for "Funk Film." 01:22:23:20 Location switches to Salzburg, Austria. LS of the United States Information Center from across the street from this building, then moves in to CUs of the building, and the window display that features promotions for the 1948 Summer Olympics. CUs of young Austrian boys looking at the advertisements. A man looks intently at the weight-lifting photos; young men look at the information, CU on dollar amount totals of monies spent to rebuild Austria, etc, and plans for monies to be spent for this effort through March of 1949; maps; children reading the materials; a man in CU looking at a photo of Harry Truman.

Degenerate Art Exhibit [Entartete Kunst] in Munich, 1937

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Sequence of outtakes. INTs of the 1937 Munich exhibition of "Degenerate Art" [Entartete Kunst] in the Archaeological Institute, not far from the house of German Art. Visitors inside the exhibition are seen looking at art in Room 3, including Otto Dix's "War Cripples" on the north wall (CU). Paintings and sculptures located on the west and south walls of Room 3 are also shown. Views of visitors and the art exhibited are to some extent different from that seen on Nazi Germany reels at the Library of Congress.

Nazi Germany 1937: Hitler Youth girls on a country road; BDM; farming

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Sequence of outtakes. BDM girls place flag in ground, write letters. Landscape with ploughed fields, oxen and cart. Road with BDM girls, marching and singing with banner. CUs faces, braids, white blouses. While resting at roadside two girls perform a singing act for the camera, flirtatious, very animated. Others seated, write in diaries, then march on. Ages range from 8 to 12, most in braids or bobbed hair. BDM girls eating, with group leader, CU BDM flag, reading magazine, resting. Antiquated shaking threshing machine. CUs hay. Farmers working. Note: J.Bryan's film lecture, "Germany 1937," describes this as "country road from Nurnberg to Dresden in Saxony showing German school girls in Hitler youth movement. (No Jews permitted)..."

Berlin street scenes; memorial ceremony; coal

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Sequence of outtakes. Park in Berlin, several people walk by, people sitting on wooden benches in the park, a child plays as an older woman looks on. CU of signs: Top: Citizens are asked to keep their dogs on leash. Bottom: "Die gelben Baenke sind fuer Jueden." [The yellow benches are for Jews.] VS of the park, but none that show the sign in context of park. (Olivaerplatz near Kurfuerstendamm) LS Airship hangar. Memorial for the fallen, Berlin. MS, Crowds assembled along the street. Wreath laying ceremony for Nazis (rainy day/overcast). Procession with dignitaries and military officers. Military band marches past. Troops with rifles and packs goosestep to monument. Honor guard with bayonets approaches mausoleum, with six large fluted columns. CU, guard, boots. Civilians walking in and out of the area. WS of the monument and uniformed men moving away from memorial. Onlookers, small crowd. Berlin street. Man reads sign posted by entrance to building, woman walks in front of the sign while walking her dog. The sign reads "Der Botschaft der Union der S.S.R. in Deutschland" [The Embassy of the USSR in Germany]. Also seen, repeated in Cyrillic. Shots of city plaza, facade of modern building. Views of streets and cars moving along. LS, entrance to mansion (embassy?) guarded by soldier with rifle. Signpost: "Wilhelmplatz" and "Wilhelmstrasse." LS: Autobahn construction: large crane, digger and dirt, rocks for construction, workers. VS: Berlin, Germany: public telephone booth, ornate facade of building in BG. Man standing under a tree near a phone booth. Sign on phone booth reads: "Fernsprecher" [long distance] and has a stamp dispenser. Activity in and around the booth. A man enters, aware of the camera, sign inside booth; "Fasse dich kurtz!" [Be Brief!].

Trims Nazi Germany 1937: Goldschmidt school brochure; Bryan's passport; Nazi propaganda

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Sequence of outtakes. VS, CUs of a brochure for the Goldschmidt Jewish School in Berlin, Germany. CU of a piece of zinc ore in someone's hand as they demonstrate the contours of the rock. CU of a propaganda poster with Hitler and past German leaders. CU of Julien Bryan's passport from his travels through Europe. He flips through page by page. CU of someone holding the newspaper DER STUERMER, featuring Anti-Semitic propaganda and caricatures of Jews on the front page. Several CUs of various pages of the paper, one showing caricatures of the Soviets, the Brits, etc. Ends on a CU of a caricature of a Jew.

Street scenes in Cracow 1936

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A large barge on the Vistula River in Cracow, Poland, workers are barely visible on the barge, steering it around the river bank's edge. People visible along the banks in the BG. VS of Wawel Castle and architectural details; a man and women atop a vantage point on the castle looking down at the river below, more barges; VS of buildings viewed from the river, very picturesque. MS main marketplace. Schoolgirls marching along in uniform, and singing while carrying Nazi flags, VS, including one LS that follows the girls from behind and out of frame after they march past the camera.

Street scenes, Danzig, Poland 1936

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MCU of two women, seen from behind viewing the merchandise in the window of a corset shop. All signage is in German. Two young girls look at an umbrella display in a shop window; shots from inside the women's clothing store to the street and people outside reflected in the windows. VS, along the water, views of the banks along the Baltic Sea; MS, traffic cops, men loading large bags onto ships. More street scenes in Danzig, men's clothing store with men doing some window shopping. High angle shot of newspaper boys on a busy street. Good scenes of daily activity.

Daily life in Poland, 1936, scenes of Polish cavalry

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TRIMS not connected by subject matter. EXT, VS, a new schoolhouse in Lowicz, Poland, scenes in the schoolyard, children playing. EXT, VS, three young girls walking down a dirt road, followed by horse drawn carriage, a church steeple is visible in the BG in Lowicz. EXT, MLS, large estate in the Polish countryside. EXT, MLS, group of men at stable, Lowicz, Poland. INT, Zinc refinery in Zakopane, Poland. CU of molten zinc being poured into molds. EXT, MS, young women in peasant dress line parade route in Warsaw. EXT, CU, shop windows in Warsaw. EXT, VS, Polish cavalry on maneuvers. EXT, VS, M. Finkelstein's haberdashery in the Jewish quarter of Krakow, Poland. EXT, country estate. EXT, Young women in peasant dress line parade route in Warsaw, Poland. EXT, Train station in Gdynia, Poland.

Ruins of Warsaw, Poland 1946

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Opens in 1946- Warsaw, Poland, snow covered ground and destroyed buildings; military vehicle and electric bus pass by one of the destroyed buildings, cut to horse drawn carriages going down these same streets. 01:01:00:00 The destroyed DEUTSCHE BANK, a horse and carriage move through the frame. More destroyed building facades. 01:01:20:24 1946, Warsaw, Poland, MCU of a young boy making the sign of the cross at a cemetery. VS of wooden crosses and grave markers (name placards) for the dead, several names and dates listed: 1941, 1942, etc. Men, women and children pay their respects; children place flowers and candles at the graves. CUs of women crying over the graves. CUs of graves. The last indicates someone who died in Auschwitz.

Jewish quarter of Warsaw burning, 1939

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This sequence was shot on the night of September 16, 1939, during Rosh Hashanah. The German invasion of Warsaw, Poland had begun over a week before, but they intentionally set the Jewish quarter of Warsaw on fire during the holiday. Bryan did not have any external lights to illuminate the action while shooting this event. If the viewer looks closely they can make out the outlines and shadows of the inhabitants of the Jewish quarter in bucket brigades in the foreground of these shots trying to save their homes, their lives, and their livelihoods. The quarter was destroyed that night.

German siege of Warsaw, Poland, Sept. 1939

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01:03:45 Men digging in the aftermath of the German military air raids on Warsaw. Several refugees with bundles walk down the street, past where the ditches are being dug. Polish soldiers stand guard; civilians come up to them and question them. Scenes of the chaos in the streets after the German air attack. Two young men are recruited by a Polish soldier to help with the digging. They are all in suits and ties, some in trench coats and hats, and they keep digging. 01:04:18 Railway underpass, a train stuck on the tracks that are now covered with debris, women and men climb out of the railcar and over the debris. Polish soldiers with guns walking through the streets. Many civilians are milling about. Quick shot of a bridge over the Vistula River. 01:04:33 A shanty town that some survivors have set up where their homes once stood: families are trying to gather together their belongings; a young girl cleans her feet in a basin; young girl fixing her hair in a small mirror that she has propped up on a broken door. Refugees line up for bread outside a building, a soldier guards the door trying to keep things orderly. 01:04:57 CU of a wall riddled with bullet holes. Other buildings destroyed by bombs. HAS of church clocktower. People praying on their knees in the dirt outside of the wood frame church, the church has been damaged. A priest walks through the rubble outside the church.

Catholic hospital in Warsaw destroyed during the German siege, 1939

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The bombed out Catholic Hospital of the Transfiguration, one of Warsaw's largest hospitals. A nurse and doctor make their way through a destroyed ward full of empty beds. Catholic statuary in the hospital, CUs of beds filled with rubble, a Virgin Mary statue on a bed, a palm tree. MCU of Julien Bryan speaking with one of the nurses at the hospital. 01:06:05 Quick shot of the destruction at the American Consular office in Warsaw. Shots of another hospital with a makeshift maternity ward in the cellar hallway. VS of the new mothers and newborns. CU, a newborn's head is bandaged. More shots of babies born around the time of the siege, including a shot of twin boys. 01:06:42 INT of Eastman Kodak Laboratory in Warsaw, two lab workers with 16mm film in hand, trying to clean the mess after it was bombed. Bryan rushed to this lab each day he was in Warsaw to immediately process his film of the German attack on the city. Bryan writes in his book "Siege" that one processing tank exploded, and luckily, his film was not in that tank.

German siege of Warsaw, Poland, Sept. 1939

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Woman selling newspapers on the street. Cut to scene behind the American Embassy where, according to Julien Bryan's book "Siege", all the Americans were during the Siege. Scene of Americans practicing for heading underground during an attack, American flag in the ground, sand bags, etc. They are trying to string the flag so that it will somehow be visible from the air so that the Germans will not bomb them. Several of the men are wearing armbands. VS, sandbagging the American embassy in Warsaw. The men continue to point towards the sky, as they head underground, one man takes still photos. Another flag is draped on the roof of the building to warn the German planes. 01:08:24:00 Scene of destruction, birds take flight, INTs of the Catholic hospital, the nurses and mothers with newborn babies leaving the destroyed building. A baby carriage remains perched precariously on the edge of a bomb induced crater on the hospital grounds. VS of the nurses and nuns demonstrating the damage that was done to the hospital. 01:09:04:10 Chaos on the streets of Warsaw. Trucks full of sandbags, foot soldiers on patrol, refugees all about, piles of stones from destroyed buildings, men digging, more refugees crossing the Paderewski Bridge, soldiers continue to recruit able-bodied men that they find in the crowds of people coming over the bridge. MCU, On the bridge, a family with all their belongings, everyone seems to be smiling. Camera pans the group of refugees assembled there on the bridge, still in MCU, good CU of mother and daughter, then just of the little girl, staring intently at the camera, back to mother, then they pull out pictures of the little girl as a baby- they have all their possession with them. A man with a WWI military medal in MCU (part of the same family) more shots of this family- they have everything loaded on a bicycle. Soldiers patrol the bridge. MCU a woman carries a chicken, several other refugees. VS of people on the bridge, then more destruction along railway lines, and people swarming out of their neighborhoods.

Nazi rally, 1937 - Hitler, Himmler, Reichsarbeitsdienst parade; Anti-Bolshevik exhibit crowds; Berlin streets crowded for Mussolini visit.

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Nazi party rally at Nuremberg, pan of stadium, regiments already assembled on the field; more still entering, an injured man is carried away on a stretcher. 01:06:45:00 Some MCUs on the young soldiers on the field, some look back at the camera, all are chewing gum--the bare-chested regiment-- Nazi "beefcake". MCU of the beefcake singing in unison. Cut to the young women assembled in another area of the field. VS of flags waving; military milling about the stadium. Scenes outside of the Anti-Bolshevik Exhibit (Antibolschevistische Ausstellung); uniformed Nazis with armbands line up to enter a building, several civilians enter as well (men and women). Officers push back some of the crowds-the lines are extremely long. The crowds calmly move back, many of the women are smiling. 01:09:03:00 On the occasion of Mussolini's visit to Berlin, crowds wait in the streets; a truck full of young men, the sign painted on the truck reads: BRAUHAUS NURNBERG. Motorcade through the streets begins, all are lining up to see the men of the hour who will soon arrive, waving and saluting the crowds, camera tracks Hitler's car in MLS. The shot and the reel end as Hitler rides out of frame at END.

Factory scenes, Katowice, Poland 1936

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Katowice, Poland, 1936. CU, worker takes off his mask as he exits the zinc refinery. MLS, camera pans down the refinery smokestack to reveal the entire refinery in the valley, full pan of the valley, and then back into the mine, miners hacking away at the rocks with pick axes. Shots of bubbling molten ore at 01:01:55:00. The workers leave the refinery, and head off to the church. More shots inside the mine, the cars full of zinc ore, etc. VS of the women sorting the good pieces from the bad. EXT, the miners emerge from the mine, head into another building at the refinery. 01:04:54:00 Workers leave the factory on their bikes; large engines turn inside the factory. 01:06:30:00 changes to scenes of the burning embers of the furnace: iris shots. A worker counts the smelting ovens/jets.

Street scenes in Warsaw, 1936

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MS, traveling from a streetcar in Warsaw. Traffic officer on a pedestal in the middle of the street. Tree- lined streets. Sequence of modern shop windows in the city, including a fabric store, a clothing store, a food market, and a hair salon. 01:11:12 More street scenes of Warsaw, showing a kiosk full of advertisements and a flower vendor. There is a prominent announcement for a Chaplin film screening on the kiosk, and later, a sign in the distance for American actress Irene Dunne. People fill the sidewalks.

Street scenes in Warsaw, 1936

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Two biplanes fly overhead, quickly returns to a scene of a large plaza, people milling about. VS, Warsaw street scenes, an occasional peasant is visible in the crowd, but for the most part they are all well-dressed city folk. CU of tram stop at 01:13:03:15: "PRZYSTANEK TRAMWAJOW MIEJSKICH" Inside the street car, passengers look out window, read, etc. CU of traffic cop in busy intersection at 01:13:16:00. More buses, cars, street vendors, etc. selling religious articles. Rainy day scenes in Warsaw, the same traffic cop we saw earlier is now in rain gear, and still directing traffic.

Daily life in southeastern, northeastern, and central Poland, 1936

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TRIMS depicting a variety of activities in daily life throughout Poland in 1936. The first two trims are MSs of a street corner in Warsaw, a police officer conducts traffic between streetcars, motorcycles, automobiles and horse-drawn wagons. The street is busy with people. The third trim is a low angle MCU of a religious procession in Lowicz, Poland, featured are clergy and townspeople. This is followed by two trims of a building under construction in Warsaw, workmen construct wood frame, cart materials around the site in wheel barrows, as a foreman barks orders. The remaining trims feature ships loading and unloading in the port city of Gdynia, Poland. VS of the ships and the cranes along the docks.

Daily life in southeastern, northeastern, and central Poland, 1936

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TRIMS beginning with a quick glimpse of store fronts in the Jewish quarter in Krakow. This is followed by several shots of architecture in Warsaw, then a CU of an incense burner in a Catholic procession in Lowicz. The scene then returns to Warsaw: street scene, kiosk, poster advertising a theatrical performance. MS, policeman on horseback, using the horse as crowd control, people are gathered. CU molten zinc being smelted in a furnace at the Giesche Mine and Refinery in Katowice. LS, Gdansk, establishing shot along the waterway. MCU and CU of dockworkers in Gdynia, loading materials onto ships for transport. There is a lumber yard at the docks. Staged scenes of a village family in Zakopane, Poland. Men and women are present, cooking, eating, talking, doing household chores. CUs of bread and cheese being cut and served. MS, Katowice, workers exiting the mine. CU of elevator in operation going down to mine shaft, workers exit elevator into mine. VS of the miners at work, chipping away at the walls of the cave with pick axes, etc. Return to CUs and MCUs of Catholic holiday procession through the streets of Lowicz, followed by a quick glimpse of a paddle boat docked alongside the Vistula river in Krakow. The Wawel castle is visible in BG.

Polish cavalry on maneuvers, street scenes in Warsaw, scenes in the countryside, 1936

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TRIMS of Poland 1936- not connected by subject matter. Polish cavalry on maneuvers in an open field. Shop window in Warsaw during the arrival of Smigly Rydz. INT, MCU a streetcar full of passengers in Warsaw. Gdynia, ships loading and unloading at the port, pier 23. EXT, MS, streetcar rounding a corner in Warsaw. VS, EXT, MLS, husband and wife in the countryside walking toward their home, MCU entrance to home, etc. MS, EXT, street scenes, busy street in Warsaw. EXT, MLS, new buildings in Warsaw. EXT, MS, miners exiting building in Zakopane, Poland, drinking water. EXT, CU, dockworkers at lumberyard at port of Gdynia. EXT, market square, city unknown. INT, women sorting zinc at refinery in Zakopane, Poland. EXT, CU, young schoolchildren walking with teacher, and nun, location unknown. INT, MCU, worker stoking furnaces at refinery in Zakopane, Poland. EXT, with smoke stacks, refinery in Zakopane, Poland. EXT, MS, women at a fruit vendor's stand on a city street in Warsaw. MS, kiosk and fruit stand proprietor arranging her wares. EXT, MLS, ships unloading coal at port of Gdynia. EXT, MS, horsedrawn carriage and autos on street, location unknown. VS, EXT, peasants in traditional dress processing through village to religious church ceremony in Lowicz, Poland. EXT, CU, two young Jewish boys socializing with each other. EXT, MS from high angle, procession of priest and alter boys in Lowicz, Poland.

Krakow street scenes; children; shops

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In Krakow, MCU young boys with caps with the number "21" walking in unison and looking at the camera. Girls in berets and matching coats with fur collars walk along the street by a castle-like building. Most of the girls have their backs to the camera. Some boys in the group also wear berets. Shop windows, no sign is visible in its entirety. LS, more of the schoolchildren on their outing. MCU, three people looking in the window of a bookstore. The people linger before going inside.

Mountain views and street scenes in Zakopane

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Pan of a landscape-fog rising above the mountains; snow is visible on the mountains. Shot from a plane, or some sort of funicular down to the valley below. Quick cut to peasant women walking along the street in full traditional dress.

Art school and zinc refinery

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Several trims/outtakes that jump around to different regions of Poland. CU, a young boy sculpts a bust from clay. MS of young girls doing needlework in a classroom. Hot piece of zinc in a furnace (the refinery in Katowice), zinc plates being made. Cut back to the boy with the bust and girls learning needlework. Snow-covered mountains of Zakopane, tracking shot down the mountainside. CU, iris in the zinc-smelting furnace, back to the girls and needlework, back to the zinc refinery, workers exiting the refinery. Art school in Zakopane. EXT, LS a courtyard of a modern looking building, white, cement block, men enter (probably EXT of the art school in Zakopane). CU, a young boy chipping away at a sculpture. CU, woman teaches girl elaborate decorative needlepoint in the art school.

German siege of Warsaw, Poland, Sept. 1939

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Extreme long shots: German planes flying over Warsaw- these are the shots that Julien Bryan talks about in his book "Siege". These are the shots that he took while standing on the roof of the American Embassy in Warsaw, Poland in September of 1939 as the Germans began their air attack of the city. The shots are composed of mostly gray sky with the occasional plane passing through the frame, this is not the most dynamic looking footage, but it documents the beginning of the German air attack and the very beginning of World War II.

German siege of Warsaw, Poland, Sept. 1939

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A Polish soldier confiscating the remains of the wreckage of a downed German plane. The plane has a large cross in the center of it, CU of the cross, CU of the soldier unscrewing something, camera moves in closer- but the shot is out of focus, as the shot comes into focus the viewer can see that the soldier has taken out the clock from the dashboard of the wrecked plane. He is removing this clock as a trophy. 01:00:58:05: Julien Bryan, along with a reporter and two Polish soldiers, examines the wreckage of this plane. More shots of the soldier standing by a portion of the wing of the plane. The soldier then proceeds to tear off a piece of the wing and show the camera how it bends; several Polish men then carry the wing back into a garage. Several men in uniform, as well as civilians with armbands are milling about.

German siege of Warsaw, Poland, Sept. 1939

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The site of a downed plane-wreckage is visible on the hillside, where one Polish soldier is showing the journalist something that came from this plane, another Polish soldier is climbing down the hill to join them. 01:01:53:14 CU: journalist and Polish soldier, soldier demonstrates how one of the guns on the plane would have worked. More CUs of this wreckage, and cleanup, the camera pans from the site of the downed plane to the surrounding buildings that look almost brand new (this location may be one of the outlying suburbs of Warsaw that Julien Bryan refers to in his book "Siege"). The men hold up the parachute from the plane that has been torn to shreds. Camera pans up to reveal buildings completely intact around this crash site, the men point up toward the sky to demonstrate the direction of the air attack. More wreckage and large artillery casings at 01:03:02:07. Several CUs of destroyed pieces of equipment being inspected by the group of men, a CU of a piece of cloth from the parachute seen earlier in this sequence at 01:03:07:28: revealing some marking and possibly a date of manufacture- difficult to make this out very well on screen. 01:03:17:07: Several residents of the neighborhood come out to look at the wreckage: men, women and children survey the scene now along with the soldiers. VS, at various angles. The residents then go back to their homes.

German siege of Warsaw, Poland, Sept. 1939

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CU of a man blowing a warning whistle, cut to a large statue of a mermaid wielding a shield and a sword, an unidentified bridge and the Vistula River are visible in the BG. Cut to MCU of the statue, then to a LS of the deserted banks of the river, train tracks run directly along the river banks, and there are empty, open-topped train cars. VS of this plaza and mermaid statue near the riverport- one car rides on the road around the statue, but the area is basically deserted.

German siege of Warsaw, Poland, Sept. 1939

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01:04:12:20 CU, shot from low angle of signs on a large contemporary, concrete block apartment building- the address and other information are visible - written in Polish, identifies construction company, etc. located in Warsaw, Poland. Camera then pans the building, which looks deserted, although the bombing has not damaged it. 01:04:23:17 MLS of a destroyed area of Warsaw; it seems to be a bridge over one portion of the river and an entrance into the city from an outlying suburb. Polish soldiers on horseback patrol the bridge, some people are walking along the bridge, one cyclist passes by, CU from edge of bridge of the rubble, in the BG people carrying bundles can be seen walking on the bridge. MS of a destroyed houseboat along the river. More pans of the riverbanks and the bridge far off in the distance now. 01:04:55:02 CU of a large shell casing. Cut to a MLS of bombed out buildings, a soldier and a young boy mill about in the BG, frame right. Pan of an entire street of wreckage. VS, the inhabitants of this area setting up makeshift homes outside, pots of water, trying to clean up, and clean themselves off, etc. They are rescuing all they can from the wreckage of their homes. They are piling chairs, pictures of the Madonna, plates, etc, outside on the ground. 01:05:26:22 A woman comes and picks up her picture of the Madonna and holds it up for the camera, with her two children standing beside her. More shots of the family sifting through the rubble, END

German siege of Warsaw, Poland, Sept. 1939

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Poignant shot of two little boys, one little girl, and one woman with her head bandaged holding an infant in her arms sitting on the street surrounded by rubble, the children are barefoot, and they look frightened and confused. This scene was shot in the immediate aftermath of a German air attack over Warsaw. MLS the two young boys dragging a chair, down the street full of rubble. 01:05:48:22: MS residents milling about on the street, sitting on chairs, surrounded by the few belongings they have left- several young women, one man. Clear shot of more destruction at 01:05:55:29 man in suit rounding the corner, passes by a soldier, the woman with her head bandaged is carrying a baby in her arms. CU of a brick oven that remained intact. Camera pans to broken plates and cups in the rubble. END on CU of destroyed household belongings in this rubble.

German siege of Warsaw, Poland 1939

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Scenes of the fire at night in Warsaw- these are the fires that burned on September 16, 1939 the first night of Rosh Hashanah, when the Germans set fire to the Jewish quarter destroying everything within a 20 block area (Jewish shops, homes, etc.) While it is difficult to make out- in the distance between the darkness and the flames you can see that there were bucket brigades set up and men were trying in vain to put out the fires. Julien Bryan's book "Siege" (1940) has a passage that tells this story. More shots of the fire at 01:06:38:12 trees are visible silhouetted against the flames, and there is a horse drawn carriage passing by. Camera pans from the large flames, to a beautiful old four-five story building where flames are just barely visible flickering through some windows, it seems this building too will soon be in flames.

German siege of Warsaw, Poland 1939

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EXT, daylight scenes. MS of a building that has been devastated by a German bomb. The buildings surrounding this look basically in tact. MCU of two women dead in the field, also the bodies of men. 01:07:05:04 Julien Bryan's book "Siege" (1940) contains a passage about this scene. There were a group of potato pickers in a field on the outskirts of the city of Warsaw, the German planes flew overhead, missing them on their first fly over, the potato pickers got up from the ground, thinking they were safe, only to be surprised by the same planes returning along the same flight path and this time killing two, and wounding the five others. A sequence of CUs of the dead bodies.

German siege of Warsaw, Poland 1939

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INT, hospital scenes- a pregnant woman lies in a hospital ward- these are scenes from the Catholic hospital that was destroyed in Warsaw during the German air attacks in September of 1939. Lying next to the pregnant woman is a wounded man. VS of the wounded being cared for by nurses in the hospital. 01:08:19:18 The inhabitants of the maternity ward are now lining corridors, several nurses, mothers and their newborn babies are seated on the tile floors of the hospital corridors. VS, CUs of mothers with their infants, some with a doctor as well: this is all mentioned in Julien Bryan's book "Siege" (1940), with more information on particular patients and hospital employees given as well. CU of baby with some damage to its skull at 01:08:45:02. CU of another baby nursing. Pan of more mothers and infants. Cut to nurses comforting elderly women who have most likely lost family members in attacks.

German siege of Warsaw, Poland 1939

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MS, Julien Bryan and nurses talking in the hospital. CU of one of the nurses as she explains the situation to Bryan. MCU of four men at the hospital, the one with glasses is a German prisoner, who is being cared for by the Poles. 01:10:05:25 A young priest is present as well. CU of the German soldier getting his hair cut, another German prisoner (with a Hitler-style mustache) is smoking and talking to a Polish officer as a doctor looks on. Some of the CUs of the Germans are quite out of focus, comes back into focus- the priest spends some time smoking and talking to the German soldiers followed by a series of CUs of the wounded men. 01:11:35:14: Cut back to wounded in their hospital beds.

German siege of Warsaw, Poland 1939

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Dead woman with a basket over her head. MS, two women and one man approach this woman's body when she is still laying face down in the dirt, they roll her over, she is now lying face up, the basket is next to her head (I don't believe it has been placed over her head yet), and then they walk on. The man looks back at the camera a few times after passing the dead woman's body. Cut to MS, three women in the field digging for potatoes, CU of an injured woman. Cut to MS, refugees of the bombing teaming around their destroyed neighborhood, the site seems to be the former cemetery that is also mentioned in Julien Bryan's book "Siege" (1940). MS, near a statue of Jesus, two women pump water from a fountain that is still working. LS, high angle, from the interior of a bombed out building, we can see residents standing in the rubble outside the window. 01:13:14:05 Bryan sits among the rubble talking to those who have lost their home, one woman is fixing her hair, another speaks with Bryan and reaches over to offer him a potato, he thanks her and smiles. More shots of men cleaning up rubble, digging ditches, etc. 01:14:16:20 Good sequence of shots of Bryan posing with a larger group of victims of the bombing raids, all assembled in the middle of the rubble. Long CU on an older woman who retells her part of the story, cut to the two young boys reading Mickey Mouse comics (JB mentions this in the book "Siege", (1940) as well). Return to a MS of the elderly woman featured in an earlier shot in this sequence, looking a bit bewildered, and milling about in front of a destroyed building with several other women and children around her, a young girl in a sailor style outfit comes up on screen right, and begins to look directly at the camera.

German siege of Warsaw, Poland 1939

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CUs of belongings amid rubble. These belongings are all that remain for the Poles featured here who have been displaced from their homes by the German air attacks. MS, camera pans another destroyed interior- this time it is a church (discussed in the book "Siege" (1940)) The priest is inside taking things out of the sacristy, trying to salvage the relics, etc, several people mill about outside. CU of a young girl with a dog in her arms, this is the same girl that was seen in Story 3982 on this tape - USHMM Film ID 3003. 01:15:41 VS of destruction to a cemetery, CU of another corpse. CU of a loaf of bread in a woman's hands. Cut to a scene of a young girl praying in front of a small altar she has set up outdoors, there are candles, and she is reading from prayer book. 01:16:15:29 MLS, more scenes of destruction.

German siege of Warsaw, Poland 1939

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EXT, VS night time scenes of the Jewish quarter of Warsaw on fire. This event occurred on September 16, 1939 during Rosh Hashanah. The Germans deliberately chose this day to set the Jewish quarter on fire, burning and destroying more than 20 full city blocks. Camera pans, but it is difficult to make out the shadows, at 01:16:45:14 there is a more vivid shot of the flames, illuminating a street lamp.

Folk dancing

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Slow motion dance sequence of tradtional Polish folk dancing. Men and women in traditional costume perform a circle dance.

Farming life in rural Poland

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MS, four horses pulling a machine dispersing seed, the horses are guided by a farmer as they make their way across a patch of plowed field.

Title credits for the film "Poland - the Country and the People"

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Opening credit sequence. Credits are as follows and appear in this format: The International Film Foundation presents POLAND The Country and the People A Julien Bryan production Associate producer Eugene Cenkalski Photography Jules Bucher, Julien Bryan Music Jerzy Fitelberg Commentary Robert Spencer Carr Narrator Merce Cunningham Animation Philip Stapp

Street scenes and establishing shots of Krakow

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Establishing shots of Krakow, shot circa 1936/37. LS of the famous castle, shot of a small boat letting in along the Vistula River, LS of two women walking across the courtyard of an unidentified building. **From Julien Bryan's film "Poland the Country and the People" released in 1948, shot 1936-1937.**

Animated maps and titles for the film "Poland - the Country and the People"

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An animated map of Poland, designed by Philip Stapp. Features the outline of the country of Poland, a drawing of a King with a sceptor, an indication of the location of Krakow with an accompanying image of the city, and a coat of arms-style sign in the middle of the map of Poland that reads: Union of Poland-Lithuania and Ruthenia. **From Julien Bryan's film "Poland the Country and the People" released in 1948, shot 1936-1937.**

Establishing shots, street scenes and buildings in Krakow

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VS, Krakow, Poland landmarks: old maket square, Catholic church, museums, municipal buildings, the castle. Used as establishing shots. **From Julien Bryan's film "Poland the Country and the People" released in 1948, shot 1936-1937.**

Graphics and intertitles for the film "Poland - the Country and the People"

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Animated maps of Poland showing the changes in the political borders of Poland from 1795 when the land area was divided between German, Russian and Austrian interests to the 1914 borders in which the empires of Germany, Russia and Austria-Hungary engulfed Poland entirely from a political standpoint, despite the fact that a distinct Polish culture still existed. **From Julien Bryan's film "Poland the Country and the People" released in 1948, shot 1936-1937.**

Establishing shots of village life in Katowice

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Peasants and farm families going about their daily activities in the region of Katowice, Poland. Several shots of men, women, and children harvesting wheat, herding cattle, and talking to each other and to the camera. **From Julien Bryan's film "Poland the Country and the People" released in 1948, shot 1936-1937.**

Scenes in a market square in Krakow

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A market scene: old peasant women sitting on the ground, selling their wares, a pushcart full of live geese passing by, VS of merchants and consumers at the open-air market in a cobblestoned square in Krakow, circa 1937. A man in a uniform (Polish army) holding and petting a hen, followed by VS of women in the market. **From Julien Bryan's film "Poland the Country and the People" released in 1948, shot 1936-1937.**

Preparations for Easter in the region of Lowicz and Witów

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VS, preparations for church in Lowicz, Poland. VS of the procession (likely for Easter Sunday) of townspeople, all in traditional clothing, to the church. They are led by the local clergy and several carry banners as they process through the streets. VS of the young children dressed in their finery, two flower girls sprinkle the path to the church with flower petals. Polish highlanders march from the church through the Polish village of Witów, in Kościelisko Commune, Tatrzański County. The priest visible in the middle wearing a dark cassock and elaborate hat is then parson of Chochołów parish, Kazimierz Rzeszodko. MCU of a group of elderly men from the village talking and smoking. LS of three young boys running about on a farm. **From Julien Bryan's film "Poland the Country and the People" released in 1948, shot 1936-1937.**

Staged scenes of domestic life and folk dancing in the region of Katowice

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Staged scenes inside a peasant couple's home. Women cooking apples, cutting bread, men eating. All are wearing traditional Polish peasant dress. VS of men and women performing folk dances, mainly circle dances. These shots are alternately over and under cranked, making the actions of the dancers exaggeratedly slow or fast. **From Julien Bryan's film "Poland the Country and the People" released in 1948, shot 1936-1937.**

Scenes of rural life in the region of Katowice

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VS, scenes of rural village life in the central Polish region of Katowice, circa 1937. Horse drawn wagons move along a dirt road, an orthodox priest in dark vestments walks along the same road. A family carries kindling on their backs. CU, the Orthodox priest stops to speak to two children with a goat. Three women walk along a dirt road, two carry firewood, one walks hand in hand with her young daughter. She picks up her daughter for a CU for the camera. **From Julien Bryan's film "Poland the Country and the People" released in 1948, shot 1936-1937.**

Folk dancing in southern Poland

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Men and women folk dancing in full, traditional central Polish folk dress. The sequence plays in slow motion.

Farming in central Poland

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Farmers harvest crops in central Poland. They fill their baskets. Country road and horse drawn carriage carrying bundles of hay. More scenes of country life. LS on the thatched roof country home along the river/canal. Trees line the road where a horse drawn carriage passes by.

Folk dancing in southern Poland

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Folk dancers in Zakopane, the southern Polish region near the Carpathian/Tatras mountain ranges. They dance in a circle around a cross. VS dancing. Several shots are in slow motion. 01:13:54 Quick shot of three male dancers playing with their hats and horsing around, taking a break from dancing. Sequence of folk dancing continues, the camera captures the dancers at various angles.

Farming village in central Poland

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Repeat of quick shot of an older peasant woman handing her bundles to a man who puts them on a horse drawn carriage. Quick CU of a man in profile, cut to two girls and their mother in peasant dress. The girls pose alone for the camera. Two elderly ladies talking, MCU in profile. Large wooden cross framed by a window, shot from INT to EXT. Back to peasant women, one helps the other adjust her skirt waist. ECU of elderly women with headscarf. Several women gathered together on the road, closeups. CU man in traditional hat, the elderly woman and man with a horse. MLS, four women in traditional dress walking down the country road.

Farming and schoolyard in central Poland

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In the fields of central Poland, CU of woman harvesting crops. Then a quick succession of shots seen earlier: two girls in traditional folk dress who do not want to be photographed without their mother, girls playing dodge ball in the school yard.

Preparing for church in central Poland

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Procession with banners into a church in Lowicz. Quick succession of shots seen earlier: women talking on the street, young girls posing without their mother (more here as their mother steps out of the frame), the girls continue, sheepishly to walk toward the camera, they hold each others hands, the younger sister looks back at her mother rather than at the camera. Cut to other women walking along a dirt road, a horse drawn carriage passing by, then the camera returns to the two little sisters. The younger girl, looking terrified, poses holding her sister's hand, CU, glimpse of the young girls' shiny black shoes.

Nazi Germany trims: Autobahn, HJ, Woolworth's, zeppelin, "Der Stuermer", exhibitions

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TRIMS. Signs for gasoline - "Gro Essen" and "Flug Essen." Autobahn. Mechanics. "Gesperrt" sign on Autobahn. Construction. Gas station. Construction, Nazi flags in BG. Driving on Autobahn. Mechanic working on coal/rail engine. Building construction, workers with cart. Autobahn. 01:02:12 City, HJ march in FG, church in BG. BDM girls marching street side, women on steps, gardening. Soup. Nazi poster. Autobahn. Leica factory. CUs, roof. HAS, market, vegetables, eggs. CUs, peasant woman selling wares, flowers. 01:04:06 CUs, boots. 01:04:17 Amusement park rides, spectators, children. Woolworth shop windows. Hitler posters. HJ boys looking at NS propaganda postcards. Coal. Mechanics working on engines. Building construction. WS smoke stacks, factory. Airship construction, CUs, worker. Swastika on wing of plane. HAS, planes flying overhead, Nazi party rally, air show, military review with tanks. Woman selling nuts at market, smiling at camera, pigs, potatoes at market. City street. Civilians reading "Reichsnaehrstand" poster. "Blut und Boden." Farming, digging potatoes, raking hay. Painted murals on church. INT, family eating, reading newspaper. "Kraft durch Freude" on shop window. Castle in mountains. Men leaning against railing over river. Crowd getting on ferry. Town streets. Children eating, playing in nursery, celebrating birthday party in yard. 01:11:36 Boys looking at NS posters on fence, "Der Stuermer". HJ boys, motorbike, reading. Hang gliding. 01:12:46 In city square, large crowd of civilians gathered, dancing, band, Nazi banners, tables. Crowd heiling in front of church. Huge crowd on stands in main city square, VCU church (Nuremberg? Munich?), bicycles in city streets, cafe tables. Children with backpacks walking home from school. 01:15:41 BDM marching in between large statues, CUs. Entrance to Industry exhibit. INTs, spectators looking at exhibitions, tires. 01:17:26 Children gardening, model town. Automat, stone coffee pot, street scenes, café, waiter, shop windows. HAS, church steeple. 01:19:17 Farming and farming, hay.

Nazi Germany trims: HJ, wreath laying

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Sign "Unser gruss ist 'Heil Hitler'". Peasant and cart. Marching band in city square. Nazi (Leipzig?). Man leaning against railing over river. Books in shop window. HJ motorbike. Spectators. Wreath laying. Parade, marching band. Goosestepping. Military review. Soldier guards memorial, CU boots.

Nazi propaganda

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CU, book. CUs "Der Stuermer".

Nazi Party Rally in Nuremberg

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Crowd at Nazi party rally in stadium. Military review. Flag performance (fast motion). Formations on field, eagle/swastika. Night.

Train in German village

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Train, bucolic village.

Nazi Germany trims: Leica factory, ferry, Pestalozzi Froebel Kindergarten, airplanes, peasants, exhibitions, nursery, tobacco, anti-Jewish signs, Goldschmidt school

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TRIMS. INTs, Leica factory, various shots. 01:00:43 Fountain at industry exhibition. Crowds looking at exhibitions, including "Das Weisse Gold," "Glaswolle," yarn/textiles, boots, "Continental" tires, "Sicherheits-Glas." Man standing next to large machine. 01:02:01 Small town in Germany. LS, Leica factory, INTs. CUs, lens, laborers, on lunch break, polishing, inserting film into camera. 01:04:01 HAS, LS, German village, cathedral spires, train in FG. 01:04:09 LS, factory, smokestacks. 01:04:18 Laborers on dirt mound with pick axes and sledgehammers. CU, "Krupp" insignia. Locomotive, rail lines. 01:05:09 Hang-gliding. 01:05:16 Bicycling, city traffic. 01:05:18 Man drinking Coca-Cola. 01:05:20 Crowd entering ferry, pan up to bridge. 01:05:24 Leica factory. 01:05:45 "Zur Jugendherbergs Ausstellung" sign. "Gepaeck-Abgabe" sign. 01:05:54 Children at party, close shots. 01:05:57 Germans gathered on street, looking off screen. 01:06:06 Children eating, kindergarten. 01:06:11 Leica factory, various shots, INTs, workers, microscopes, lenses. 01:07:12 Pestalozzi Froebel Haus Kindergarten: children playing with wooden toys. 01:07:20 Horse and carriage, EXT palace (Potsdam?), tourists in FG, nuns. 01:07:45 Cathedral, pedestrian traffic, automobiles, bus. "Luther-Haus" civilians. Scenic views of the river. LSs, EXTs buildings. 01:08:24 Hang gliding. 01:08:48 Airplanes, one says "Gustav Leffers", men cleaning EXT, wings. 01:09:03 Countryside, model village, German civilians walking. 01:09:28 BDM girls with flowers, gardening. 01:09:38 Peasant farming, German family, hay. 01:10:09 [water damage to film] Queue for anti-Bolshevik exhibition. Pan, WS, building, sign across top of building, crowds lined up. 01:10:57 INT, degenerate art exhibition, DaDa inscription. Sign on EXT of building: "Entartete Kunst." Visitors entering and exiting the building. CUs, INTs, art, patrons, "Nehmen Sie Dada Ernst" on wall. Art, caricatures. 01:12:27 BDM girls, walking on country road with flag, various shots, resting, eating from canteens, reading. 01:13:32 Boat in river. 01:13:39 LS freight train, railroad tracks around mountainside. Vineyard. 01:14:18 Farming. 01:14:20 Drilling with sledgehammers on hill, smokestacks in BG. 01:15:05 Boat, LS, cathedral on riverbank. 01:15:12 Kayakers. 01:15:14 INTs, women take lessons for cooking, changing diapers, medicine. Women with kerchiefs looking over crib. 01:16:32 LS, town, houses, apartments, trees. 01:16:53 Family playing cricket. Baby in carriage. In yard, husband and wife gardening, picking flowers, hoeing. 01:17:25 Giant pipelines. Boys running in woods. Digging for pipeline, wheelbarrows, calisthenics. Geo-political lecture on hillside in Bavarian Alps. CUs, boys. Swimming. 01:19:18 Tobacco farming. 01:19:19 Autobahn, trucks. 01:19:37 Tobacco farming. 01:19:40 CU, "Juden sind hier unerwuenscht" sign appears in two views along road. 01:19:51 Totem pole. 01:19:53 Autobahn with trucks, high shots. 01:20:12 Castle ledge. 01:20:13 Cathedral 01:20:20 Marching band parading. MS, men & women marching in street, bridge in BG. "Niederlander..." sign. Crowd boarding "Hindenburg" ferry. Luggage, CUs. 01:21:07 Leica factory. 01:21:09 Sequence of Goldschmidt School, showing Margot at the blackboard writing Hebrew with her teacher, Margot Segall slides board up. Other familiar faces include Trudi Goldschmidt Thompson. Pupils at desks, recess outside, playing, entering school - MSs and CUs. Pupils at desks, Margot goes to chalkboard again.

Postwar Poland; destruction

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Snow-covered and war-damaged Poland, 1946. Horse with cart, building ruins. Three men looking at architectural drawing of a shelled building, pointing to destruction in BG. CU, blueprint of building.

UNRRA supplies

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Boxes of UNRRA supplies from USA stacked. Ship "Falstria", bundles piled high in FG, crane, workers moving bundles. CU "US Mail" on side of bundle.

Postwar damage in Poland, UNRRA, YMCA

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Building ruins. Polish children walking on street, woman waving from window. "Falstria" ship, truck with bundles passing in FG. Cranes, crates, laborers. CU, "UNRRA" on wooden crates. EXT, building ruins, pan down. Wooden scaffolding. Man working, pedestrians. Boys entering YMCA. CUs shell damage to building. "Polska YMCA" sign. Children climbing on pile of rubble.

Poles in apartment

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INT of apartment, clothing hanging on coat rack. Girl kisses mother, boy kisses mother, sick child in bed, CUs. Girl with kitten. Older man cleaning tile floor.

Postwar destruction in Poland

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Building rubble. HAS, boys playing soccer. Damaged buildings. CUs of engravings on arches, church, broken statue.

Goldschmidt School

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Goldschmidt School. Hebrew on chalkboard. Teacher and Jewish girl. Girls in class at desk. Packing book bags.