Julien Bryan

Nacimiento : 1899-05-22, Titusville, Pennsylvania, USA

Muerte : 1974-10-20

Historia

Julien Hequembourg Bryan was an American photographer, filmmaker, and documentarian. He is best known for documenting the daily life in Poland, Soviet Union, and Nazi Germany between 1935 and 1939.

Películas

Korespondent Bryan
Himself
A People Without Fear
Producer
An educational documentary film detailing the role of the Christian church in communities across the globe, including West Germany, Russia, Syria, India, the Philippines, and South Korea.
Pacific Island
Director
A film about life on the small island of Likiep in the Marshall Islands in Micronesia.
São Paulo: The Fastest Growing City in the World
Director
A film sponsored by the U.S. Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs to promote friendly relations with South American countries just before World War II.
Montevideo Family
Director
Focuses on the life of the Guarditas family as representatives of Uruguay's middle class. Shows their house; the father, Manuel, leaving for his work as a woolbroker; the boy at school; the girl doing her homework; the maid cleaning the house; and the mother working in the garden. Gives a very good impression of what middle-class life was like in Montevideo in the 1940's. (Jane M. Loy, Latin American Research Review, vol.12 no.3, 1977)
Americans All
Narrator
A film sponsored by the U.S. Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs to promote friendly relations with American countries just before World War II. Stresses the importance of the Good Neighbor Policy and Western Hemisphere cooperation in the face of Europe's disintegration. The first half is an historical summary of the American continent. Postulating that youth will build a new world, the last half considers youth at work, youth at school, health conditions, defense, and ends with a plea for American solidarity.
Americans All
Director
A film sponsored by the U.S. Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs to promote friendly relations with American countries just before World War II. Stresses the importance of the Good Neighbor Policy and Western Hemisphere cooperation in the face of Europe's disintegration. The first half is an historical summary of the American continent. Postulating that youth will build a new world, the last half considers youth at work, youth at school, health conditions, defense, and ends with a plea for American solidarity.
Siege
Director
Siege is a 1940 documentary short about the Siege of Warsaw by the Wehrmacht at the start of World War II. It was shot by Julien Bryan, a Pennsylvanian photographer and cameraman who later established the International Film Foundation. Siege was nominated for an Oscar for Best One-reel Short at the 13th Academy Awards in 1941, and in 2006, it was named to the National Film Registry by the Librarian of Congress as "a unique, horrifying record of the dreadful brutality of war."
Peoples of the Soviet Union
Director
A film shot in the early 1930s and revised in 1952 which covers Moscow, the tribal areas of the Caucasus Mountains, avant-garde and Jewish theatre preformances, dance festivals, the newly established U.S. Embassy, as well as local daily life.