Tourist ferry and boats on town harbor

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. VAR shots of civilians on ferry/tourist cruise ship moving slowly. City harbor seen from boat. From land, shots of boat "VOLGAR" pulling up to dock full of people. Another boat operating by steam, CUs, steam vent. Larger ships at city port, shots of city from water. Villagers at land port, some waiting in line to board boats, another walking towards the camera carrying a bundle on his shoulder. Man raises flag with three boys watching. Life preserver. MS, smaller boats. Flag flying on mast. Shots of water, land from boat. MS, group of American students on small motorboat. City from the river. Crowd waits to board ferry as it pulls into dock in BG full of passengers.