German town; market, airstrip, BDM

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. WS, two men in field. Market. Woman with pigs. Plowing/farming scenes. HAS market. Farming. CU, soldier guarding building. Soldiers marching, parade. Fighting sequences at Army Day celebration. Train passing castle in FG in Eisenach. EXT, building with clock and sign, "Haupteingang." Street scenes. CUs, INT, men at work in Leica factory in Wetzlar. River with barge passing. Freight train, long, sustained, round curve near the Rhine River. Farming on mountainside, picking grapes. Several BDM girls throw javelins, do calisthenics in yard at Zinnowaldschule in Berlin. School/camp behind girls. Tempelhof airfield near Berlin, taxiing plane. Plane markings: "D-AT YZ", swastikas. VCUs of planes. Names on planes: Hans Hachmach, Wilhelm Cuno, Gustav Leffers. Cleaning planes, Lufthansa pilots suiting up. CU, model homes shown at Dusseldorf Exposition (industrial fair), village, people looking around and airplanes. Pristine, like Speer's models. CU, doorway. Woman with suitcase along road, cars and pedestrians pass by. Peasants raking. War Memorial: "Volkerschlachtdenkmal" in haze, cyclists in FG. Car with trailer, spectators. Froebelhaus Kindergarten in Berlin: children, building blocks, etc. Little girl dresses doll, hugs doll. Five female teachers. Children washing and drying dishes at sink. Toddlers sit on potties, en masse, one starts crying.