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An American girl describes her visit to Poland

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.7214 | Film ID: 3073, 3074

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    An American girl describes her visit to Poland

    Overview

    Description
    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)
    Film Title
    Mary Visits Poland
    Duration
    00:11:28
    Date
    Production:  1946
    Event:  approximately 1936-1937
    Locale
    Lowicz, Poland
    Krakow, Poland
    Gdynia, Poland
    Zakopane, Poland
    Credit
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, gift of Julien Bryan Archive
    Contributor
    Camera Operator: Julien H. Bryan
    Director: Eugene Cenkalski
    Camera Operator: Jules Bucher
    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.
    Eugene Cenkalski was a screenwriter and director. During the war, Cenkalski worked for the Polish government in England and the United States, producing and editing war film for Poland. After the war, he and his wife Christina settled In Lodz and collaborated on rebuilding the Polish film industry. https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/1209418.pdf

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Genre/Form
    Documentary.
    B&W / Color
    Black & White
    Image Quality
    Good
    Film Format
    • Master
    • Master 3073 Film: positive - 35 mm - nitrate - sound - b&w - print
      Master 3074 Film: positive - 35 mm - nitrate - silent - b&w - fine grain master
      Master 3073 Film: positive - 35 mm - nitrate - sound - b&w - print
      Master 3074 Film: positive - 35 mm - nitrate - silent - b&w - fine grain master
      Master 3073 Film: positive - 35 mm - nitrate - sound - b&w - print
      Master 3074 Film: positive - 35 mm - nitrate - silent - b&w - fine grain master
      Master 3073 Film: positive - 35 mm - nitrate - sound - b&w - print
      Master 3074 Film: positive - 35 mm - nitrate - silent - b&w - fine grain master
    • Preservation
    • Preservation 3073 Film: positive - b&w - 35 mm - sound - digital intermediate - 2237
      Preservation 3073 Film: positive - b&w - 35 mm - sound - digital intermediate - 2237
      Preservation 3073 Film: positive - b&w - 35 mm - sound - digital intermediate - 2237
      Preservation 3073 Film: positive - b&w - 35 mm - sound - digital intermediate - 2237
      Preservation 3074 Film: positive - b&w - 35 mm - silent - digital intermediate - 2237
      Preservation 3074 Film: positive - b&w - 35 mm - silent - digital intermediate - 2237
      Preservation 3074 Film: positive - b&w - 35 mm - silent - digital intermediate - 2237
      Preservation 3074 Film: positive - b&w - 35 mm - silent - digital intermediate - 2237

    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 purchased by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum from Sam Bryan and the International Film Foundation, Inc. on February 12, 2003.
    Film Source
    Sam Bryan and International Film Foundation
    File Number
    Source Archive Number: JB-2098
    Record last modified:
    2024-02-21 08:07:10
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