us-005578-irn639125
type: RecordSet
date: Fall 1940 - 1941
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has or had some members with language: Silent
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identifier: irn639125
note: This was filmed before the sealing of the Warsaw ghetto in November 1940 until 1941 or later.
scope and content: Shot by unidentified German soldier. HA panning shots of Warsaw showing people in a wide open space, probably after rubble from destroyed buildings was cleared. Camera pans in the opposite direction and shows the Central Railway Station. Ground-level shot of the Hotel Polonia and buildings next to it on Jerozolimskie Avenue. People pass by on foot and in horse-drawn carriages. 00:41 Man (foreground, carrying briefcase) and woman (background, carrying shopping bag) wearing armbands among other pedestrians on Marszalkowska Street. Panning shots around Zbawiciela Place show halted street car, bicyclists, damaged buildings and street lights, pedestrians, shoe-shine men, a church. View of Warsaw across the Vistula River from Praga. Poniatowski Bridge. 01:30 Nice street scenes. Jews wearing armbands on the sidewalk, some look at the camera. A woman carrying a suitcase in both arms walks into the street past the corner of a kiosk with newspapers on display. 01:37 Bridge and skyline on the opposite bank (perhaps Bromberg or Danzig). Sailboats and barges in the river. German soldiers and civilians cross the bridge on foot. Germans on horseback. HAS of German soldiers and pedestrians walking down a sidewalk, a church in the BG. Open area of rubble where buildings have been destroyed. People walking and biking near a church. Slow wide pan of lots of pedestrians on a sidewalk. 02:48 German soldier poses facing the camera in front of the door to a building. INT German officers and men in civilian clothes at a dining table. The man on the far right wearing glasses appears to be the same man who posed at the door. Half-obscured shot of leafless trees and snow on the ground, followed by a shot of the same man in glasses walking toward a modern-looking building all in glass (greenhouse? library?). 03:10 Pedestrians pass and look as three uniformed Germans, including the man with the glasses, stand in the doorway of a building (building where officers were dining?). One of the men gi…
title: Warsaw after German occupation