Overview
- Description
- Fires at night. Blazing apartments. CU flames, through windows. Burning area. Dead horse dragged. Several dead horses. Severely damaged apartment block. Dead woman on grass near bricks - CUs. Hospital and wounded. Nurses attending to the injured in beds, cleaning wounds. Maternity ward, doctor, newborns. Julien Bryan talking to female doctor. Caring for a wounded man (Jewish), patients' heads being shaved. Priest speaking with a Jewish man. VS, men in hospital beds. Potato fields on outskirts of Warsaw: after German strafing. Women pass bodies in the potato field - wooden huts visible in BG. People digging up potatoes, women crying. Planes fly overhead. Families fleeing. Soldier. Shot of a cross in the street, crucifixes. Metal sign which reads "BAZAR 1894 BAZAR". People on the move with bundles. Julien Bryan speaking to a group of people.
- Film Title
-
Siege of Warsaw
- Duration
- 00:09:30
- Date
-
Event:
1939
Production: 1939
- Locale
-
Warsaw,
Poland
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Polish Institute and Sikorski Museum
- Contributor
-
Director:
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
- Outtakes.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Good
- Time Code
- 01:00:00:00 to 01:09:30:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 2267 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 2267 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 2267 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 2267 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large- Preservation
Preservation 2267 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2267 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2267 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2267 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
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- Conditions on Access
- This archival media can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations.
- Copyright
- Polish Institute and Sikorski Museum
- Conditions on Use
- For permission to reproduce and use this footage, contact the Film Archives of the Polish Institute and Sikorski Museum at film.archive@pism.co.uk.
- Copyright Holder
- Polish Institute and Sikorski Museum
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this footage from the Imperial War Museum in London in 1999.
- Copied From
- 35mm; b/w
- Film Source
- Imperial War Museums
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 1659
Source Archive Number: SIK 196 R2 - Special Collection
-
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 08:03:21
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