Anti-Jewish sign; tobacco harvest

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. Women and girls harvesting tobacco, bending over tobacco leaves. Close views, wearing aprons. CUs of Autobahn and different kinds of vehicles, mainly trucks, passing on highway. CU and MS of sign "Juden sind hier unerwuenscht" (Jews not wanted here) on country road. Man passes on motorbike; woman walking opposite direction. Old woman seated, handling tobacco leaves. Tobacco hanging to dry. LS silhouette of men and women on roof, passing tiles up the sloping side. Several shots: LS, CU, MS. Closeup of tiles placed.