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POLAND POST WORLD WAR II
LN
501-589 09:07:07 – 09:07:46 6Nov47 Sd B/W
News In Brief - [Polish Communist Leader
Stanislaw Mikolajczyk Escapes to England]
Previously Deputy Prime Minister
Mikolajczyk (1901-1967) speaks to camera, says military court sentenced him
& others to death. He escaped
to Germany. Standing next to son
at microphone.
Anti-Communism; Cold War; Death Sentence;
Freedom; Political Asylum;
220652 16:00:15
- 16:10:27 1950 SD B/w
Pro-Soviet World Peace Congress in Warsaw November 16th-22nnd 1950. Reel 3
Forms of transportation taking delegates from East and West to Poland. Good shots steam trains -
aircraft. Tracking shots through
rural with trees and farms. Interior passenger train - delegates at tables and reading. Crowds at
side of RR track waving as train passes. Train pulls into station and delegates are given flowers. Crowds waving
as train passes. Passenger planes and delegates. Good shot one plane from Czechoslovakia landing at night. Communist delegates from all over World
arriving at airport and train station. Crowds greeting - flags and banners.
16:04:31 Night - Exterior meeting
place - flags of all nations. Day - Street scenes in Warsaw - traffic - buses
with peace signs. Pedestrians. Housing.
16:06:02 Black American delegates visit site of Warsaw Ghetto - cu faces. Piles of rubble, all that remains of
the ghetto. Russian
delegates visit construction site. Building work - bricklaying.
16:07:31 Interior conference hall filling with delegates - lots of
greeting. Top table take their
places - pan along top table. Frederic Joliot-Curie, President of the Congress, opens the ceremonies
with Italian Pietro Nenni. Standing ovation.
220652 16:10:53
- 16:21:09 1950 SD B/w
Pro-Soviet World Peace Congress in Warsaw November 16th-22nd 1950. Reel 6
Congress in progress - delegates gather in hall. Close shots various named delegates. Delegate takes stand and makes speech
in French most of which has German voiceover. Delegates applaud. Prof. Leopold Infield makes speech re sciences role in maintaining
peace. Dmitri Shostakovich
addresses congress. British
delegate takes stand and says she has just arrived from Sheffield after winding
up conference which was banned by Government. African delegate speaking in French to congress. Indian delegate speaking. Vincento
Lombardo Toledano of Mexico denounces Yankee Imperialism. Cleric / Dean of Canterbury? on podium. Indonesian delegate speaking. Scottish delegate speaking. American delegate - Howard Fast? Black American delegate speaking. Cleric speaking. Johannes Becher speaking.
Other speakers mentioned on card are Nazem el Kodsi and Ilya Ehrenburg.
220796 16:36:31
- 16:37:34 1958 SD B/W
News In
Brief - Hula Hoop in Poland
Hula hoop twirling. Jazz musicians. Audience watching and cheering. Fat man tries hula hoop.
220747 08:52:26
- 08:53:06 1959 SD B/W
News In
Brief - Poland - Gdynia Harbour Icebound
Fishing boats moored in harbour - snow and ice on rigging. Men chipping ice from pipes.
Cold weather.
200541 15:22:00 - 15:23:58 1964 SD B/W
Kennedy
in Warsaw, Throngs ignore Curb on Welcome
Robert Kennedy, wife and family surrounded by huge crowds in Cracow. Kennedy arrives at University, waving
to welcoming crowds. Party tour
university, Kennedy shows the Jagiellonian globe. Kennedy party on walkabout, greeted by crowds, many
women. Kennedy standing on roof of
car as drives slowly through crowds. Kennedy son signing autographs. Crowds at statue.
220871 00:22:30
- 00:24:10 1964 SD B/W
Poland
Celebrates - Military Display Marks Nazi Defeat
Air Display AV planes in flight formation, people watching. Khruschev and Polish VIPs on
podium. Military march past. Rockets and missiles in parade. Girl pioneers in parade.
X221424 22:40:50 - 22:51:18 1961 SD B/W
Russian News of the Day 1961 #18 May
INCLUDING:
22:48:58 Title. Warsaw. Poland International May Day parade of working people, huge crowds w/ flags & banners march past officials on podium & children present flowers.
22:50:07 .
X221171 18:24:48
- 18:26:02 1961 SD B/W
Russian
News of the Day 1961 #30 July
18:24:48 Warshav applauds Gagarin. Streets packed w/ people, crowds gather
in central airport to greet Yuri Gagarin, people look up the sky. Gagarin off plane, waves & shakes
hands w/ Polish Workers Party leaders, photographers take pictures. Big crowds, Gagarin on podium in large
square. Gagarin thru streets in
open car, escorted by policemen on motorbikes, roadside packed w/ people, wave
flags, throw flowers at passing car. Car stops, crowds of people shake car as Gagarin looks around, smiles,
shots of Gagarin throwing flowers from car to the public. The End.
LC200519 01:00:40
- 01:08:50 1947 Si col
Poland Post War
Street scenes - traffic - damaged buildings - graffiti of plane on wall. Two girls getting ice cream cone from
street cart.
01:01:12 Pan across bomb site - damaged buildings. Close shots remains of buildings. Various shots children posing for camera - dark /
underexposed. Children in nursery
eating at table.
Material from here has black diagonal scratch - unusable
01:02:42 Mountains, man dresses in
polar bear costume.
01:03:02 Youth camp ? young boys
in uniform. Woman in garden.
01:03:36 Picture now clean. Various pans across damaged shells of bombed buildings, some shots with
civilians walking along street. Children playing in front of bombed building. Geese wandering in background, really lovely shots. Young boys play in front of car. Children looking over wall at
river. Playing near wall.
01:06:20 Men and women entering and leaving church which appears to be under
ground. Crucifix on top of
doorway.
01:08:38 People walking on street surrounded by devastation.
LC200520 02:00:00
- 02:10:05 1947 Si col
Poland
Post War
Julian Bryan with women survivors
showing them photographs from the Potatoe Field massacre of WWII.
Woman hanging washing on clothes line. Washing clothes in sink using scrubbing board. Bryan with family - gives them tins of food etc from
cardboard box marked CARE USA. Old
woman dresses in scarf and fur coat. Bryan kisses old woman goodbye.
02:04:46 City street -
pedestrians. Interior office -
three men looking through photos and making selections. Printing press -
newspapers coming off presses. People walking in streets, damaged buildings visible in background.
Bryan showing book to children and others. Bryan holds various stills of massacre for camera.
CU old woman talking.
02:08:06 Residential area, houses showing some damage. Boy runs to greet father. Couple in kitchen, girl at table. Bryan showing photos to mother. Mother sets table. Display of embroidered cushions. Still
photos of family on display. amily sitting at tea table - children
eating bread and butter.
200520 02:10:07
- 20:20:43 1947
? Si col
Poland
Post War
Woman in kitchen makes jug of instant coffee. Pours into cups. Julian Bryan
seated at table with man and small boy looking at photograph album. Mother
brings coffee. They sit looking at
photos and comparing with family photos of people.
02:11:34 Exterior coal mine - sign Kopalinia Makoszowy. Miners outside building before and after shifts. Mine wheels turn.
02:12:18 Pavement kiosk, woman with soldier or tram conductor looking at
newspapers. Bryan stills in
paper. Family walking across
bridge, stop to look at view.
02:14:05 City streets - large building - trams.
02:14:23 Interior - woman combing hair and checking back in mirrors - primping.
Books on table re History of Poland. Man shaving in bathroom. Living room
- older woman and baby looking at
family photo album. Mum and Dad
now dressed and ready kiss baby goodbye.
02:16:44 Streets - trams, crowded - people hanging off - ruins of buildings in
background.
02:17:17 Moscow city centre. University ? (wedding cake building). Jazz band and couples dancing -
jiving. Long sequence of dancing. Couples sitting at tables smoking and
drinking - flirty girls laughing.
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Post
War:
1) Molotov, USSR Leaders
& Polish; Warsaw Rebuilds; Rumanian War Crimes Trial; Dneiprostroy
Dam. Sd|
2) 1947 Warsaw wreckage & daily life. Entrance to ghetto.|
3) 1947 Warsaw, Poland w/ Russo-Polish monument & damaged
buildings.|
4) 1947
Warsaw ruins, German POWs clear ruins of Ghetto, Polish soldiers march &
sing.|
5) Warsaw
rebuilding buildings and trams, cleaning up Ghetto.
6) Warsaw
orphans dancing to accordion. SS
Mooremac Pine unloaded of aid parcels. Woman dentist. Family
celebrating father's birthday. Hotel Europecky and dancing to orchestra. US soldier & Polish girl dancing.|
7) Workers
complete roof of building. Crane
lifting materials, carpenters working. Construction of new tunnel. Ministry of Reconstruction and architects view model of Warsaw.|
8) Members
of Cooperative Society rebuilding destroyed homes, students from U. of Warsaw
working on houses.|
9) Belveder
Palace, Pres. Bierut into office. Other government VIPS.|
10) Ceremony w/ PM
Cyrankiewicz unveiling tomb of Procnick. Fortress of Deblin and corpses unearthed. Bullet holes in skulls etc. Ceremony at Place du Theatre.|
11) Krakow, Poland Old
Market Place, Cathedral & shops. War Crime Trial of Forty Germans from Auschwitz, Maria Mandel &
others. See cards.|
12) Warsaw. Cardinal Hlond received by Kaczynski at
bombed church. Others. Damaged church and service held.|
13) Warsaw w/
ceremonies inside church in tribute to American GI dead. Embassy members: Amb. Griffith, Mrs Crocker & Mr.
Crocker & Dr. Edward Raymond. Cemetery.|
14) Faade of new
American Library on Piusa St. US
Embassy & Amb. Griffith with USIS dir. Walter Schwinn. Interiors of library.|
15) Mr. Victory Gorsz, Dir. Of Press & Info meeting foreign correspondents. Larry Allan, Assoc. Press, Sydney Gruson of NY times etc. Setting type for polish newspaper and distributing. Polish Film studio, Lodz w/ Alexander Ford shooting scene of WWII ghetto.
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