Polish cavalry on maneuvers, street scenes in Warsaw, scenes in the countryside, 1936

TRIMS of Poland 1936- not connected by subject matter. Polish cavalry on maneuvers in an open field. Shop window in Warsaw during the arrival of Smigly Rydz. INT, MCU a streetcar full of passengers in Warsaw. Gdynia, ships loading and unloading at the port, pier 23. EXT, MS, streetcar rounding a corner in Warsaw. VS, EXT, MLS, husband and wife in the countryside walking toward their home, MCU entrance to home, etc. MS, EXT, street scenes, busy street in Warsaw. EXT, MLS, new buildings in Warsaw. EXT, MS, miners exiting building in Zakopane, Poland, drinking water. EXT, CU, dockworkers at lumberyard at port of Gdynia. EXT, market square, city unknown. INT, women sorting zinc at refinery in Zakopane, Poland. EXT, CU, young schoolchildren walking with teacher, and nun, location unknown. INT, MCU, worker stoking furnaces at refinery in Zakopane, Poland. EXT, with smoke stacks, refinery in Zakopane, Poland. EXT, MS, women at a fruit vendor's stand on a city street in Warsaw. MS, kiosk and fruit stand proprietor arranging her wares. EXT, MLS, ships unloading coal at port of Gdynia. EXT, MS, horsedrawn carriage and autos on street, location unknown. VS, EXT, peasants in traditional dress processing through village to religious church ceremony in Lowicz, Poland. EXT, CU, two young Jewish boys socializing with each other. EXT, MS from high angle, procession of priest and alter boys in Lowicz, Poland. 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.