He traveled at this time with the noted anthropologist Maurice Hindus and a group of Princeton University students on a journey through Russian villages. EXT, Young women in peasant dress line parade route in Warsaw, Poland. CU, inscriptions and signs. 01:05:36:28: MCU of road sign" Zduny 6 km, Lowicz 17km. The plane has a large cross in the center of it, CU of the cross, CU of the soldier unscrewing something, camera moves in closer- but the shot is out of focus, as the shot comes into focus the viewer can see that the soldier has taken out the clock from the dashboard of the wrecked plane. Adolf Hitler greets the crowd from an open car. The girl turns to look at the camera. The collection sheds new light on the experience of people struggling to defend themselves from Nazi persecution and to rebuild their countries and their lives. English intertitles. 01:13:25: INT, church sequence: church in Warsaw that has been damaged by German bombs (under-cranked, low light).01:13:51:15: Sandbagged corner building in Warsaw. So very much for pointing me in the right direction.yes that is I and my twin and our Mom! This scene was shot in the immediate aftermath of a German air attack over Warsaw. Soldiers stand around drinking as well. BDM girls place flag in ground, write letters. TRIMS depicting a variety of activities in daily life throughout Poland in 1936. Woman speaks. EXT Eleanor Roosevelt walking with academics, wearing hood and holding wreath and piece of paper. CU Street lamp. Parade for economic recovery (ECA) activities passes, including a band and a float of the Holland America Westerdam ship. Cemetery, tombstones. CU poster of workers with KTO WYZEJ PODNIESIE PRODUKCJE?. (04:30) Woman in coat jogs across street and walks through a gate. Followed by shots of tanks and more soldiers, this time wearing combat helmets rather than dress uniform hats. VS: CUs of the students in class and at a social gathering. INTs of schoolhouse with kindergarten age children after performing on a small stage, sitting at tables with their teacher, drawing. Dumping coal into truck with crane. Baseball game. [VQ- still frames in places where there are technical problems from Bryan's camera and poor processing.] CU at 01:18:19 that shows an eagle insignia, in the hands of a soldier, who is marching along the street, air attack over Warsaw, scenes of Warsaw and posters that were on the streets. Cut to a MLS of bombed out buildings, a soldier and a young boy mill about in the BG, frame right. Women in traditional dress walk along a country road. A young boy with a pet canary in a cage that survived the bombings. In the BG a wooden coffin is moving past on the shoulders of some soldiers. 8:07 Cover of Architectural Forum Magazine of Building. located in Warsaw, Poland. CU of a bombed out building in Danzig with German signage above the entrance. One man, whose coat seems more contemporary and who is also wearing a tie, looks suspiciously at the camera. Men talk, upright plaque on table in FG. Opening the book BEYOND TRAGEDY by Reinhold Niebuhr. MSs, CUs children boarding ship. Julien Bryan introduction to camera. Camera pans the group of refugees assembled there on the bridge, still in MCU, good CU of mother and daughter, then just of the little girl, staring intently at the camera, back to mother, then they pull out pictures of the little girl as a baby- they have all their possession with them. Little boy (seen earlier) opens door. More shots of hands and girls sorting. Several establishing shots of streets, etc, mostly new buildings, signs for construction and construction companies are visible, all the buildings are modern, cement block highrises. Also seen, repeated in Cyrillic. Building with scaffolding. 01:04:33 A shanty town that some survivors have set up where their homes once stood: families are trying to gather together their belongings; a young girl cleans her feet in a basin; young girl fixing her hair in a small mirror that she has propped up on a broken door. (Color) CUs, weaved crafts. The refugees load into open trucks in order to make the trip to the train station, includes Mendel Good (Aftergut). Street scene in the business district in Krakow, many pedestrians, kiosk, people looking at bookshop/newssatand window. U.S. Sigismund's Column in Warsaw. (Olivaerplatz near Kurfuerstendamm) LS Airship hangar. Other buildings destroyed by bombs. MCU people look at the camera as they board a street car. Polish soldiers stand guard; civilians come up to them and question them. Reel 7B. (04:11) Some overlap with Film ID: 3004 Trolley passes in front of a clock tower and other buildings. 01:16:15:29 MLS, more scenes of destruction. 1890-1930 Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore Steamship Arrivals, 1890-1930, ($), index 1892-1924 New York, Passenger Arrival Lists (Ellis Island), 1892-1924 Index only. US military personnel mill about, arranging signs, helping DPs with luggage, guiding the refugees through this stage of the emigration process. Reed, 1984. MS, ornate lightpost, CU, Luther tablet engraving on side of building. HAS, policeman directing traffic (pedestrians, automobiles, trams, horse/buggy) with Warsaw in the distance. VS, EXT, peasants in traditional dress processing through village to religious church ceremony in Lowicz, Poland. City parks - women with baby carriages, CUs. Girls sort bits of metal on a conveyor belt. How To Find Shipping and Immigration Records P.Stephens, 1985-1986. USA.gov, The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration City by the beach seen from distance. MCU, On the bridge, a family with all their belongings, everyone seems to be smiling. People disembark the train in what seems to be a deserted field. CU student. 01:10:53:16: children and women gathered in a doorway, quick cut to more rubble, several quick shots of refugees looking bewildered; CU of an overturned pushcart; civilians talk and point nervously with soldiers; citizens brigades in the street standing guard;CUs of posters, anti-German propaganda. VS of the destruction in the city, civilians mill about the streets, with torn, threadbare clothing, there are some Polish military personnel in these shots as well. The man looks back at the camera a few times after passing the dead woman's body. LS of the river Daugava and ships docked at the Riga Commercial Port. CUs, street lamp. CU Baby bouncing in a pram. Great Passenger Ships of the World series. Scene quickly cuts to INT, high angle, a warehouse that is storing UNRRA supplies. Inside, Margot Segall, the girl in a plaid dress, approaches the blackboard and conjugates the Hebrew verb "to ask". Gardens and fallow fields are visible in the FG. EXT, VS of Prague, large municipal building, trolley car passing through frame, etc. CU Flipping through the magazine. CUs, boys. Man plays piano. CU, trams drive by, a busy town square. A young woman writes a Walt Whitman quote in English on a chalkboard. 01:03:01 MCU, panning pedestrians as they look at a store window, men in fedoras and trench style coats, women in fur collared jackets and pretty velvet hats. People sorting through piles of vegetables. Sign across the street for a merchant's shop: "SALOMON DIAMANT". Train trolley, Germans eating. Boy takes paper and leaves. Shot of the harbor along the Baltic Sea. MLS of a group of barefoot children being lead through the rubble-filled streets by young women. END of Reel 1 - writing on film leader indicates Reel 2 begins. This footage is stunning. Another woman approaches the body then continues on. People are transported in the back of a wagon, riding bicycles, walking to church. Cut to nurses comforting elderly women who have most likely lost family members in attacks. Arts and Architecture magazine. Additional buildings, courtyards, and street views. Others talk and smile. Onlookers, small crowd. Scene of Americans practicing for heading underground during an attack, American flag in the ground, sand bags, etc. VS from inside the trolley car panning the street scene outside. Girls exercise in a gym. 01:14:50:13 The parade review stand, dignitaries, both military and civilian, hob-knob with each other at the review stand, high ranking Catholic church officials are in attendance, particularly Cardinal August Hlond, the Prelate of Poland, known for making antisemitic pronouncements, who called for a boycott of Jewish shops in Poland as early as 1935, after the death of Jozef Pilsudski. Men board the train and look out from the railcar door. Animation Philip Stapp, Establishing shots of Krakow, shot circa 1936/37. A bucket being hoisted up. An icon image of the Madonna and Child hangs above the board. Date of Birth 02 July 1910 A quick cut to St. Mary Church in the old market square in Krakow and fruit market. **, Animated maps of Poland showing the changes in the political borders of Poland from 1795 when the land area was divided between German, Russian and Austrian interests to the 1914 borders in which the empires of Germany, Russia and Austria-Hungary engulfed Poland entirely from a political standpoint, despite the fact that a distinct Polish culture still existed. New York. MS, low angle, a man and a woman walk down a bombed out street in Warsaw, toward the camera, snow covers the ground. EXT, country estate. Ruined buildings. Boys and a dog playing in rubble. 01:00:40 and 01:03:40 -- Another banner over the deck of the ship reads: "Ship to freedom" with DPs, including John (Ivan) Poliszczuk. Marching band and elaborate floats process while spectators line streets. Young girls play ball in an open courtyard. CU audience. Man cuts and butters bread. He then turns to his friend to tell him about the camera, another man turns to look as well. EXT, Warsaw in ruins in winter 1946/1947 on a bright sunny day. This sequence was shot on the night of September 16, 1939, during Rosh Hashanah. Animation of a map of the United States with the Statue of Liberty. Dutch flags on buildings. Warsaw, Poland 1939: Refugees on the streets of Warsaw, VS of people in the immediate aftermath of a German air raid. The scene then returns to Warsaw: street scene, kiosk, poster advertising a theatrical performance. lights the stove, the man enters and she passes him a bucket as he leaves. The German invasion of Warsaw, Poland had begun over a week before, but they intentionally set the Jewish quarter of Warsaw on fire during the holiday. CU as machine combs the wool. INT man sits on a cot reading. DPs lean out the windows of the train to look at the camera and talk to IRO officers. They wear capes. Private residences in the mountains of Poland - wealthy couple and dog. Most likely related to Eleanor Roosevelt's visit seen in Story RG-60.4652. EXT: a cemetery, several people are in the cemetery laying flowers on graves. She was transferred to the U.S. Army as USAT General M. B. Stewart in 1946. The film portion of the Julien Bryan Collection at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum includes 141 reels of motion picture film, including the most pristine version of the documentary "Siege." Crane loading supplies on a ship. VS of mineral ore being loaded onto ships, VS of lumber yard near the ship yard along the Baltic Sea. Man holding a cane enters and talks to the attendant. She was reinstated on the Navy List on 28 April 1950. People walking in a courtyard. Prison. Animated map. Man in a furry bear costume, feigning an attack on a young peasant girl walking along the road, repeated from earlier in this reel. 04:43 EXT Women sunbathing. Young boys put potatoes in a bucket. Children and young people in Manila, food shortages. MLS, a farming family in the field, in the BG a Gothic looking church. Bryan did film several circle dances throughout his travels, as a sort of comparative study of folk dances throughout the world. Machining metal parts. EXT, MLS, group of men at stable, Lowicz, Poland. Several CUs of shop windows displaying proudly the photos of Polish leaders, particularly Pilsudski, Paderewski and the current (1937) President Mosczieksky. Item 4 - Goya arrived Adelaide - passenger list; Item 5 - Skaugum (II) arrived Sydney - passenger list; Item 6 - Castelbianco (II) arrived Sydney - passenger list; Item 7 - General Stewart arrived Melbourne - passenger list; Item 8 - General Haan arrived Melbourne - passenger list; Item 9 - General Greely arrived Fremantle - passenger list; 195 . 14:48 CU, another CWS sign, LAUF. 387.24320994 BAT Covers passenger liners on the Australian run. Extreme long shots: German planes flying over Warsaw- these are the shots that Julien Bryan talks about in his book "Siege". INT, MCU a streetcar full of passengers in Warsaw. View of another street in the Jewish quarter with children helping an older woman bring hay through an open doorway, preparing for the harvest festival of Sukkot. MS, policeman on horseback, using the horse as crowd control, people are gathered. EXT Wawel Cathedral in Krakw. Several of the students can also be seen in this sequence. The shot and the reel end as Hitler rides out of frame at END. Austrian footage, c. 1948 in Linz, a factory town where several DPs were put to work and began rehabilitation postwar. CU children answering questions in class. Another worker examines window frames for damage. anyone without the express written consent of the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild LLC. Cut to a country road, man drives a horse drawn carriage loaded with hay; a woman walks along the road. Lit candles with a brick wall and image of the cross in the BG. Boys perched in trees to watch the parade. CU of men carrying wood. On 1 March 1950 she was transferred to the Military Sea Transportation Service (MSTS) as USNS General M. B. Stewart (T-AP-140). In the BG several tents are visible on the hillside. Title card reads POWROT DO ZYCIA. [Return to Life]. The manifest can be found at the following link: https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/7488/images/NYT715_7956-0308?ssrc=&backlabel=Return&pId=3026754264, Link: https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/61704/. Airplanes in the sky. A credit now appears that reads "THE END." Nazis march past Hitler. Men observing and discussing guillotine. Women load spools of wound wool onto machines. with shells of buildings. Man holding "Bryan" slate. There is a large microphone at the piano, it looks as if the performance could have been recorded, although this footage is silent, and no known soundtrack exists. CU Traffic officer. 01:08:24:00 Scene of destruction, birds take flight, INTs of the Catholic hospital, the nurses and mothers with newborn babies leaving the destroyed building. Port: MS of part of the ship the "US Army Transport General William M. Black," passengers wave from the deck of the ship to the camera, a banner on the lower deck of the ship reads: "America Welcomes Its New Citizens," camera pans to upper deck of ship where a banner reads: "Ship to Freedom." MCU of two women dead in the field, also the bodies of men. Everyone would believe my pictures. Bryan embraced this philosophy throughout his career by aiming to further world understanding through documentary films. The map serves as a transition from this region of southern Poland to the northwestern region of Poland and the port city of Gdynia. INT: young women are lead in a series of calisthenics in a large gymnasium. POLAND Man on ladder takes down a sign from the side of a building. Julien Bryan with a female interpreter, Christina Cekalska, in front of a sign for the National Theater. These credits are followed by more credits for the Far Eastern Expedition crew and the European Expedition crew; END credit runs, then cut to EXT, low angle CU of a cathedral; a shot of man in his prison cell, viewed first through the door's peep hole, and then by opening the cell door entirely, he sits in a chair, arms folded, looking at a wall, then scrubbing the floor. This is the Freedom Monument in old town Riga. Church spires visible far off in the distance. Her husband shaves. She was named in honor of U.S. Army general Merch Bradt Stewart. (03:07) Map of Europe with POLAND labeled. VS, children studying, EXT of newly constructed school house and the schoolyard. Older Jewish couple posing outside of their shop-M. Finkelstein is the name on the placard above their shop door. Building EXTs with German-language signs (iron factory, restaurant, etc). EXT, LS, zinc refinery, ducks are visible waddling across the lawn in the BG. She was transferred to the U.S. Army as USAT General M. B. Stewart in 1946. Details: John Callaghan per General Stewart sent to Sydney gaol from Wallis Plains. Children weaving in the classroom, CUs. Comic scene with an older man at a grain mill that is being driven by two horses, the man is seated on the ground, guiding the horses andd the arm of the mill that the horses are churning comes closer and closer to his head until it knocks his hat off, a quick series of CUs of this action, the man smiles for the camera. (06:44) Street in Prague with trolley going by. **, Scenes from the Giesche zinc mine and refinery in Katowice, circa 1936. Two boys run down stairs, pick up and open the box, then leave through a doorway. The film then ends on shots of young, healthy children in postwar Poland, eating bread. MS, traveling from a streetcar in Warsaw. EXT men and women in traditional costume dancing. 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