More shots of workers unloading materials at the dock in Gdynia. People reading at tables. Muir, departed from Bremerhaven, Germany, 21 March 1952, and arrived in New York, 31 March 1952. The first trims shows a MS of the train, attached to electric cables pulling into the station, passengers wait with paper wrapped bundles under their arms. City streets and important buildings in Warsaw. Military review. In Lowicz, a young, attractive Polish peasant women is putting on her costume, she wears several layers of skirts, a cropped jacket, and long braids. A foreman barks orders to the workers, he is in a uniform and wears a cap. Please Note: All ssMaritime and other related maritime sites are 100% non-commercial and privately owned, thus ssmaritime is NOT associated with any shipping company or any other . INT, women sorting zinc at refinery in Zakopane, Poland. Construction on buildings. While it is difficult to make out- in the distance between the darkness and the flames you can see that there were bucket brigades set up and men were trying in vain to put out the fires. ), bicycles in city streets, cafe tables. Pan up the building toward clock tower. In the BG, a hand painted sign reading: "Sabala" is visible hanging from the eaves of a buidling. CU CATERPILLAR on side of tractor. Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb community. One of the young men packs his suitcase as all the family gathers round to view their newly created identity papers and make plans for the future. EXT, with smoke stacks, refinery in Zakopane, Poland. Woman turns on their radio, grabs the sunglasses of her companion, and stands. Wide views of the train station. Quick shot of "Fryzjer" [barber] sign, followed by ruins of Warsaw, shells of buildings. LS of the famous castle, shot of a small boat letting in along the Vistula River, LS of two women walking across the courtyard of an unidentified building. Title card reads Eine Tr Steht Offen. Credits over sky. Scenes of destruction in Warsaw and the liberation of the city, soldiers kissing women in the streets, getting flowers, several shots of destroyed cities (most likely stock news footage) 01:21:13 VS of the Poles working to rebuild their country, men and women, pounding in rail ties, sifting through mountains of debris, taking down buildings, etc. Boat dock, Bremerhaven port. Riverboat. 01:15:36 Automobile 01:15:38 BDM women on steps of house, gardening. guarded by soldier with rifle. Ends on a CU of a caricature of a Jew. Town streets. The girls walk away from the camera, with their backs to the viewer. One women is dressed in contemporary, Western-style clothing, a camel hair coat and felt hat. VS, barges on a river, train heading toward the camera, then moving away from camera, factory sequence and pan of Austrian hillside. Golden Gate Bridge. 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. American servicemen in an amphitheatre. They process to a cemetery gate, purchase candles for graves. More wreckage and large artillery casings at 01:03:02:07. Re: Can someone help me find immigration/naturalization records for some of my ancestors? Women milk a cow on the side of the street. Camera pans, but it is difficult to make out the shadows, at 01:16:45:14 there is a more vivid shot of the flames, illuminating a street lamp. Folk dancing scenes are shot at a faster speed than usual, and therefore the image is slowed down considerably. Learn new information about your ancestors like their age at their time of arrival and the name of the ship they traveled in, information that can help you to continue your family history research. . Skyscrapers. Damaged buildings. 01:00:56:00, LS, Krakw, Poland, Wisa River, view from Wawel castle on river and Dbnicki bridge, on the left Ranowski house villa. INT, VS, young men at a large cafeterias style table, eating,drinking and horsing around. 01:04:01 HAS, LS, German village, cathedral spires, train in FG. During the rest of 1950 she made two voyages to the Far East, carrying U.S. troops to Japan and Korea. One of the women is making coffee on the stove. VS of a bridge between two buildings, workmen finishing the plaster work, the sign in front of the building advertising the construction company confirms the location as Warsaw. Various scenes of China - children, home, farming, agriculture, landscape, mountains, building boat, fishing. CU of one of their passports from Yugoslavia. Very lively, footage. Luggage, CUs. (06:44) Street in Prague with trolley going by. Windows of houses. Polish cavalry on maneuvers in an open field. Flag of the Netherlands. Man reads sign posted by entrance to building, woman walks in front of the sign while walking her dog. 01:19:18 Tobacco farming. Older man using oxen to run a grain threshing machine. (08:23) CU guillotine blade falling, shadow of man. Girls on bicycles. Scenic views of the river. Tree- lined streets. Exterior of large brick building: Pestalozzi Froebel Haus kindergarten in Berlin. Jozefa's daughter and grandchildren. Private residences in the mountains of Poland - wealthy couple and dog. MS of dignitaries at the reviewing stand, everyone is wearing top hats, including President Moscicki. The girl laughs and plays along. UNITED STATES INFORMATION CENTER'' building on a street corner with a traffic officer in front. Medical journals. Sign on EXT of building: "Entartete Kunst." Outdoor marketplace, CUs of vegetables. 01:20:12 Castle ledge. 01:05:48:22: MS residents milling about on the street, sitting on chairs, surrounded by the few belongings they have left- several young women, one man. The records usually take the form of ship's passenger lists collected at the port of entry. VAR CUs of Poles gathered around Bryan. They are learning English. Woman continues to shops for table service and to a women's clothing store featuring a "jesie" [autumn] collection. Coal. Cut to other women walking along a dirt road, a horse drawn carriage passing by, then the camera returns to the two little sisters. The CEMLA database contains data of the arrivals to the port of Buenos Aires of passengers and immigrants who arrived in the period 1882-1932, 1938-1945, 1947, 1948, 1949 (partial) and 1950. The bear proceeds to harass another horse drawn carriage, then returns to the sidewalk and begins to flirt with two peasant women. EXT, VS Prague, buildings under reconstruction; town square; EXT of the YMCA;CU of sign that reads: "Polska YMCA"; adolescent boys coming out of the swimming pool in their short, tight trunks, lots of horseplay and other things popping up. CU, architectural model of Warsaw. CU audience listens. Shots, street scenes. A modern country: pedestrians reading newspapers, posters advertising arts and culture, vendors, trams, tall buildings, man with balloons and schoolchildren, storefronts. CUs shell damage to building. Ceremony continues in the courtyard with President Moscicki, there is a bust of Pilsudski on a pedestal on the red carpet. This scene cuts out before we enter the cemetery. EXT, LS, in a park in Warsaw. Street cars, motorcycles, bicycles, traffic cops. MS, kiosk and fruit stand proprietor arranging her wares. Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, New York, 1897-1957; (National Archives Microfilm Publication T715, 8892 rolls); Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service; National Archives, Washington, D.C. Man sings to a classroom. 01:22:01 Ford factory, workers on break, smoking, eating. Quick cut to peasant women walking along the street in full traditional dress. 01:16:49:00 LS, busy street corner with several advertisements for Polish products- it is raining, people carrying umbrellas in the BG, cars, horse drawn carriages, people waiting for the street car in the rain, several shots o the rain on the umbrellas. MCU, refugees in smaller groups, talking to each other as they wait for entrance to the building. New slate: Bremerhaven, Germany: DPs getting off the trains from the first leg of their journey, US military police are patrolling the train platform, young women with their luggage and their ID tags pinned to their coats line up for the camera and then move along. A series of TRIMS/short outtakes. Children eating outdoors during celebration, long table, party hats. Item 7 - General Stewart arrived Melbourne - passenger list; Item 8 - General Haan arrived Melbourne - passenger list; Item 9 - General Greely arrived Fremantle - passenger list; Item 10 - Skaugum (II) arrived Fremantle - passenger list; Item 11 - Amarapoora arrived Newcastle - passenger list; Item 12 - Brazil arrived Sydney - passenger list Young girls, women and men entering the church in traditional costume. Janina (seen earlier) and her husband walk through Warsaw, looking at posters, looking at newspaper article on "Siege" photos from 1939, including the photograph of her as a baby. Most likely related to Eleanor Roosevelt's visit seen in Story RG-60.4652. VS of the ships and the cranes along the docks. The train moves slowly along the tracks. These are digitised records from two record series held at The National Archives: passengers who arrived in the UK between 1878 and 1960 (BT 26) at Ancestry.co.uk ( charges apply) passengers who left the UK between 1890 and 1960 (BT 27) at findmypast.co.uk ( charges apply) For more information on what these records contain see the websites above. Scenes of socials, teas, mixers, etc. This page has been viewed 214,344 times (45,122 via redirect). A man stops to take a photograph of the young man fighting with the bear. . Girls at school, on porch, gardening, bread, milking goat. LS, parade with flags. EXT shots of the YMCA building in Prague (called YMKA in Polish). Two young girls look at an umbrella display in a shop window; shots from inside the women's clothing store to the street and people outside reflected in the windows. They are led by the local clergy and several carry banners as they process through the streets. CU of someone holding the newspaper DER STUERMER, featuring Anti-Semitic propaganda and caricatures of Jews on the front page. The scene then returns to Warsaw: street scene, kiosk, poster advertising a theatrical performance. 01:21:49 Tanks parade down the street, the cannons are drawn by horses. The Venezuelan mission representative locates Venezuela on a large map of South America for the family, as they look on and ask questions. Goosestepping. Steel mill. 01:21:07 Leica factory. Upside down slate reads DAY 28 INT 1 ECA. Two men carefully lower a large spool of wire onto something. Train trolley, Germans eating. Good shots of quick, nimble fingers at work, several CUs of their hands. DPs get off a truck with luggage and board a train. A very brief sequence in an unidentified prison in Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1946. VS of the bystanders, young boys watch the parade perched in the trees along the parade route, young women in traditional costume line the parade route, all signs of Polish solidarity. Boys stand in front of a doorway. Farm scenes. Onlookers, small crowd. Store workers moving a display.Older, poorer orthodox man, scenes of the old market place. Several stone buildings in the BG. 01:13:32 The students line up on the stairs outside the church as an instructor reads to them. INT, MCU, worker stoking furnaces at refinery in Zakopane, Poland. A priest walks through the rubble outside the church. These credits are followed by more credits for the Far Eastern Expedition crew and the European Expedition crew; END credit runs, then cut to EXT, low angle CU of a cathedral; a shot of man in his prison cell, viewed first through the door's peep hole, and then by opening the cell door entirely, he sits in a chair, arms folded, looking at a wall, then scrubbing the floor. An excerpt from a stage production of Shakespeare's "Romeo & Juliet.". Opening credit sequence. EXT, MLS, large estate in the Polish countryside. Kazimiera was photographed by JB in 1939 mourning the death of her older sister, who was killed in a field in Warsaw during a German air raid (Photo Archvives W/S 50897). Photo of Polish leader displayed in shop window next to shoes. Scenes of country life in Zakopane, Poland, staged for the camera. CUs, signs warning of electricity and gas. 01:08:24 Hang gliding. Courtyard with men moving large sacks. The first two CUs are of a worker from the zinc mine, on break, drinking water from a metal cup. Men meet in a large room, smoke and review papers. 01:14:50:13 The parade review stand, dignitaries, both military and civilian, hob-knob with each other at the review stand, high ranking Catholic church officials are in attendance, particularly Cardinal August Hlond, the Prelate of Poland, known for making antisemitic pronouncements, who called for a boycott of Jewish shops in Poland as early as 1935, after the death of Jozef Pilsudski. 01:11:57 The nanny/mommy scene in the park with VS, CUs on babies, toddlers, prams, etc. The transport was reacquired by the Navy. The Country and the People Mountain-side views of the town, a man dressed as a bear stands along a sidewalk greeting villagers. August-September 1958 Village scenes (poor image color and quality) in Poland, geese in water, tractor and farming. Captain Grainger. There are several young children and babies in the group, as well as an amputee, and even a small dog. This sequence was shot on the night of September 16, 1939, during Rosh Hashanah. Reading, bicycles, gear, band equipment, uniforms with swastika armbands, eating, trombone, reading paper. 11:44 Sequence repeats. While resting at roadside two girls perform a singing act for the camera, flirtatious, very animated. The Union-Castle mailships ran from Britain to South Africa and took businessmen, travellers, immigrants, cargo in peace and war and, of course, the mail. CU, a young boy sculpts a bust from clay. US military cameramen are visible in some shots as well. VS dancing. CU Older woman reading a newspaper. Sequence of outtakes. visitor! MS, Crowds assembled along the street. Apolonia Wiktorzak was photographed in 1939 holding a loaf of bread, now 65 years old (Photo Archives W/S 47371). Townspeople exiting (a church?). Camera then pans the building, which looks deserted, although the bombing has not damaged it. Marketplaces - women selling flowers. Stewart (AP-140), USAT General M. B. Stewart, USNS General M.B. Animation Philip Stapp, Establishing shots of Krakow, shot circa 1936/37. The crowds calmly move back, many of the women are smiling. The nurses (Sisters Zurawska, Helena, and Genowefa) remembered the day when the maternity ward of the Catholic Hospital of the Transfiguration was bombed in 1939, which JB photographed (Photo Archives W/S 47210). CU of molten zinc being poured into molds. Children weaving in the classroom, CUs. Polish soldiers with guns walking through the streets. Bundles of belongings on baby carriage. MCU of two women, seen from behind viewing the merchandise in the window of a corset shop. 01:09:04:10 Chaos on the streets of Warsaw. 01:12:46 In city square, large crowd of civilians gathered, dancing, band, Nazi banners, tables. Flower stalls at the outdoor marketplace. Then a quick succession of shots seen earlier: two girls in traditional folk dress who do not want to be photographed without their mother, girls playing dodge ball in the school yard. Surgeon Dr. Smith RN. Horse drawn wagons move along a dirt road, an orthodox priest in dark vestments walks along the same road. Girls in berets and matching coats with fur collars walk along the street by a castle-like building. Nuremberg is decorated for a parade. Camera pans from the large flames, to a beautiful old four-five story building where flames are just barely visible flickering through some windows, it seems this building too will soon be in flames. Gdynia port with ships docked to export coal and lumber. This event occurred on September 16, 1939 during Rosh Hashanah. People, refugees, destroyed buildings in Warsaw. In 1946, Bryan photographed the efforts of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Agency in postwar Europe. Man raises hand and stands to perhaps answer a question. EXT, MS from high angle, procession of priest and alter boys in Lowicz, Poland. One with guitar. Camera pans over a city street in Russia, closes in on a sign on a building (in Cyrillic). A nurse and doctor make their way through a destroyed ward full of empty beds. The mound was completed in 1937 to honor Jozef Pilsudski. Group of young women dressed in long top coats, hats, scarves, berets walk along road; the gate is now visible in the BG. Woman stacks sod. Elderly lady buying a chicken and putting it in her shopping bag- talking to the woman selling it, young dark haired girl in the market. CU of a man blowing a warning whistle, cut to a large statue of a mermaid wielding a shield and a sword, an unidentified bridge and the Vistula River are visible in the BG. Gdynia, ships loading and unloading at the port, pier 23. which include use of any spider, robot, retrieval application or any device Scene with six Polish soldiers sitting down, looking at papers or maps and discussing something. 01:17:25 Giant pipelines. CU on the book "Beyond Tragedy" by Reinhold Niebuhr. CU Smiling woman with her arm around the man. Outdoor caf - Kranzler. 01:10:09 [water damage to film] Queue for anti-Bolshevik exhibition. MLS, camera pans down the refinery smokestack to reveal the entire refinery in the valley, full pan of the valley, and then back into the mine, miners hacking away at the rocks with pick axes. Men seen through an open window. The younger girl, looking terrified, poses holding her sister's hand, CU, glimpse of the young girls' shiny black shoes. 01:01:00:00 The destroyed DEUTSCHE BANK, a horse and carriage move through the frame. Several additional shots of the ceremony. selling religious articles. 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