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Recovering in postwar Czechoslovakia; Šimsa

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 2003.213 | RG Number: RG-60.7127 | Film ID: 3061

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    Recovering in postwar Czechoslovakia; Šimsa

    Overview

    Description
    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.
    Duration
    00:18:27
    Date
    Event:  circa 1946
    Locale
    Czechoslovakia
    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
    Silent
    Genre/Form
    Unedited.
    B&W / Color
    Black & White
    Image Quality
    Excellent
    Film Format
    • Master
    • Master 3061 Film: positive - 35 mm - nitrate - b&w - silent - print
      Master 3061 Film: positive - 35 mm - nitrate - b&w - silent - print
      Master 3061 Film: positive - 35 mm - nitrate - b&w - silent - print
      Master 3061 Film: positive - 35 mm - nitrate - b&w - silent - print
    • Preservation
    • Preservation 3061 Film: positive - b&w - 35 mm - digital intermediate - 2237
      Preservation 3061 Film: positive - b&w - 35 mm - digital intermediate - 2237
      Preservation 3061 Film: positive - b&w - 35 mm - digital intermediate - 2237
      Preservation 3061 Film: positive - b&w - 35 mm - 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.
    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.
    Film Source
    Bryan, Sam
    File Number
    Source Archive Number: JB-2322
    Record last modified:
    2024-02-21 08:02:59
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