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

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 2003.213 | RG Number: RG-60.4704 | Film ID: 3048

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

    Overview

    Description
    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.
    Duration
    00:24:54
    Date
    Event:  1946
    Locale
    Prague, Czechoslovakia
    Credit
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, gift of Julien Bryan Archive
    Contributor
    Producer: International Relief Organization (UNRRA)
    Camera Operator: Julien H. Bryan
    Biography
    Julien Hequembourg Bryan (1899-1974) was an American documentarian and filmmaker. Bryan traveled widely taking 35mm film that he sold to motion picture companies. In the 1930s, he conducted extensive lecture tours, during which he showed film footage he shot in the former USSR. Between 1935 and 1938, he captured unique records of ordinary people and life in Nazi Germany and in Poland, including Jewish areas of Warsaw and Krakow and anti-Jewish signs in Germany. His footage appeared in March of Time theatrical newsreels. His photographs appeared in Life Magazine. He was in Warsaw in September 1939 when Germany invaded and remained throughout the German siege of the city, photographing and filming what would become America's first cinematic glimpse of the start of WWII. He recorded this experience in both the book Siege (New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1940) and the short film Siege (RKO Radio Pictures, 1940) nominated for an Academy Award in 1940. In 1946, Bryan photographed the efforts of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Agency in postwar Europe.

    Physical Details

    Language
    Silent
    Genre/Form
    Outtakes.
    B&W / Color
    Black & White
    Image Quality
    Good
    Time Code
    01:00:01:00 to 01:24:55:00
    Film Format
    • Master
    • Master 3048 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
      Master 3048 Film: negative - 35 mm - nitrate - camera original
      Master 3048 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
      Master 3048 Film: negative - 35 mm - nitrate - camera original
      Master 3048 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
      Master 3048 Film: negative - 35 mm - nitrate - camera original
      Master 3048 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
      Master 3048 Film: negative - 35 mm - nitrate - camera original
    • Preservation
    • Preservation 3048 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Preservation 3048 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Preservation 3048 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Preservation 3048 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small

    Rights & Restrictions

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

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    Administrative Notes

    Film Provenance
    The Julien Bryan Collection of films, photographs, documents, and artifacts was donated by Sam Bryan and the International Film Foundation, Inc. on March 17, 2003.
    Note
    At the time of the filming, Julien Bryan was working under contract for the International Relief Organization/UNRRA and tasked with capturing images of Europe rebuilding. The finished films were intended for an international [European] audience, often screened under the auspices of the US Department of State.

    Transferred at 18/24 FPS
    Additional photographs are available in the USHMM Photo Archives.
    Film Source
    Sam Bryan and International Film Foundation
    File Number
    Legacy Database File: 5082
    Source Archive Number: JB 2318
    Record last modified:
    2024-02-21 08:02:44
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