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Destroyed Gdansk

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 2003.213 | RG Number: RG-60.1345 | Film ID: 3052

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    Destroyed Gdansk

    Overview

    Description
    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.
    Duration
    00:08:04
    Date
    Event:  1945-1958?
    Locale
    Danzig, Germany
    Poland
    Credit
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, gift of Julien Bryan Archive
    Contributor
    Camera Operator: Julien H. Bryan
    Biography
    Julien Hequembourg Bryan (1899-1974) was an American documentarian and filmmaker. Bryan traveled widely taking 35mm film that he sold to motion picture companies. In the 1930s, he conducted extensive lecture tours, during which he showed film footage he shot in the former USSR. Between 1935 and 1938, he captured unique records of ordinary people and life in Nazi Germany and in Poland, including Jewish areas of Warsaw and Krakow and anti-Jewish signs in Germany. His footage appeared in March of Time theatrical newsreels. His photographs appeared in Life Magazine. He was in Warsaw in September 1939 when Germany invaded and remained throughout the German siege of the city, photographing and filming what would become America's first cinematic glimpse of the start of WWII. He recorded this experience in both the book Siege (New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1940) and the short film Siege (RKO Radio Pictures, 1940) nominated for an Academy Award in 1940. In 1946, Bryan photographed the efforts of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Agency in postwar Europe.

    Physical Details

    Language
    Music
    Genre/Form
    Unedited.
    B&W / Color
    Color
    Image Quality
    Fair
    Time Code
    01:16:49:00 to 01:24:53:00
    Film Format
    • Master
    • Master 3052 Video: Digital Betacam - color - NTSC - large
      Master 3052 Film: 16 mm - color - Kodachrome
      Master 3052 Video: Digital Betacam - color - NTSC - large
      Master 3052 Film: 16 mm - color - Kodachrome
      Master 3052 Video: Digital Betacam - color - NTSC - large
      Master 3052 Film: 16 mm - color - Kodachrome
      Master 3052 Video: Digital Betacam - color - NTSC - large
      Master 3052 Film: 16 mm - color - Kodachrome
    • Preservation
    • Preservation 3052 Video: DVD - color - NTSC
      Preservation 3052 Video: DVD - color - NTSC
      Preservation 3052 Video: DVD - color - NTSC
      Preservation 3052 Video: DVD - color - NTSC

    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
    Julien Bryan visited Poland and Russia in the winter of either 1945-1946 or 1946-1947. We believe it was the latter, as a photograph Bryan sent to his wife is labeled: "Taken in Kiev, Jan 2, 1947". This film of Danzig seems to be shot earlier and more immediately postwar.
    Film Source
    Sam Bryan and International Film Foundation
    File Number
    Legacy Database File: 5551
    Source Archive Number: JB IFF 12005
    Record last modified:
    2024-02-21 08:02:49
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