Autobahn construction; German town, market scenes; Hitler Youth

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. Autobahn construction: big crane, digger and dirt, rocks for construction, workers. 00:02:24 Marketplace scenes in Dinkelsbuehl town square: women selling and buying apples. Church entrance, timbered houses, crowds of civilians. VCUs, townspeople. Swastika hanging from building. Cows walking up cobbled street towards camera. 00:04:17 Woman with glasses and cat leaning from window, statue of Christ in niche on house wall. VS, views of river, tower. Woman leading animals through arch. 00:05:11 Men examine pigs, pull them out of baskets by hind legs. VS, pigs, carts, handling animals. Cobbled square. Boy, hauling pig out of cart. More shots of covered carts, wheels. MS, town street, a wrought iron sign hangs from storefront. CU, man gets in and out of cart. CU, woodcarvers. 00:07:40 Sign, "Dinkelsbuehl". 00:07:58 Hitler Youth march in small group through town, with backpacks. Nazi banner hanging from building. SEQ: VS, Dinkelsbuehl. Cobblestone streets with civilians, carts. People on motorcycle. 00:09:30 LS, landscape surrounding town, river. Cows in town. 00:10:30 HAS main town square with civilians and market. Work, artisans, hand-crafted products, wine barrel. 00:12:30 Material hauled up building by hoist/crane. CU cows. HAS town and river, looking down from high tower onto rooftops. 00:14:30 Pulling featherbed through the window. Man and woman on motorcycle, park and climb up narrow 500 year old stairs. 00:15:33 "Shell" gas sign. Women talking in street. 00:16:17 INT, airship construction in Friedrichshafen zeppelin factory. INT of airship skeleton, pan. 00:18:47 Worker puts on rubber shoes, elevator.