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Modern Poland before World War II

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 2003.213 | RG Number: RG-60.1260 | Film ID: 3050

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    Modern Poland before World War II

    Overview

    Description
    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.
    Duration
    00:11:17
    Date
    Event:  1936-1937
    Locale
    Warsaw, Poland
    Krakow, Poland
    Poland
    Lowicz, Poland
    Gdynia, Poland
    Credit
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, gift of Julien Bryan Archive
    Contributor
    Producer: Julien H. Bryan
    Camera Operator: Julien H. Bryan
    Biography
    Julien Hequembourg Bryan (1899-1974) was an American documentarian and filmmaker. Bryan traveled widely taking 35mm film that he sold to motion picture companies. In the 1930s, he conducted extensive lecture tours, during which he showed film footage he shot in the former USSR. Between 1935 and 1938, he captured unique records of ordinary people and life in Nazi Germany and in Poland, including Jewish areas of Warsaw and Krakow and anti-Jewish signs in Germany. His footage appeared in March of Time theatrical newsreels. His photographs appeared in Life Magazine. He was in Warsaw in September 1939 when Germany invaded and remained throughout the German siege of the city, photographing and filming what would become America's first cinematic glimpse of the start of WWII. He recorded this experience in both the book Siege (New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1940) and the short film Siege (RKO Radio Pictures, 1940) nominated for an Academy Award in 1940. In 1946, Bryan photographed the efforts of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Agency in postwar Europe.

    Physical Details

    Language
    Silent
    Genre/Form
    Documentary.
    B&W / Color
    Black & White
    Image Quality
    Good
    Time Code
    01:00:03:00 to 01:11:20:00
    Film Format
    • Master
    • Master 3050 Film: 16 mm
      Master 3050 Video: HDCam - NTSC - small
      Master 3050 Film: 16 mm
      Master 3050 Video: HDCam - NTSC - small
      Master 3050 Film: 16 mm
      Master 3050 Video: HDCam - NTSC - small
      Master 3050 Film: 16 mm
      Master 3050 Video: HDCam - NTSC - small
    • Preservation
    • Preservation 3050 Film: negative - 16 mm - polyester - b&w - duplicate negative - A-wind - Kodak - 3234
      Preservation 3050 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
      Preservation 3050 Film: negative - 16 mm - polyester - b&w - duplicate negative - A-wind - Kodak - 3234
      Preservation 3050 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
      Preservation 3050 Film: negative - 16 mm - polyester - b&w - duplicate negative - A-wind - Kodak - 3234
      Preservation 3050 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
      Preservation 3050 Film: negative - 16 mm - polyester - b&w - duplicate negative - A-wind - Kodak - 3234
      Preservation 3050 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
    • User
    • User 3050 Video: DVD
      User 3050 Video: DVD
      User 3050 Video: DVD
      User 3050 Video: DVD

    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
    Distributed by Encyclopedia Britannica Films, Inc.
    Original JB film can label: "Poland / old Poland / EB silent 1938"
    Film Source
    Sam Bryan and International Film Foundation
    File Number
    Legacy Database File: 5448
    Source Archive Number: JB IFF 1067
    Record last modified:
    2024-02-21 08:02:48
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