POLAND 1938-1945 WWII DOCUMENTARY & TRAVELOGUE MOVIE 75734a

This late 1940s black and white documentary film is about Poland from 1938-1945; an International Film Foundation, Julien Bryan Production, narrated by Merce Cunningham. Shown are Wawel Castle, Church of St. Mary, and Jagiellonian University (:44-1:47). The film says this footage of Royal Castle, Warsaw Cathedral, and Old Market Square is the last before they were destroyed (2:12-2:48). The Baroque Royal Palace is shown, burnt down in 1939 (2:50). A man and woman in a fur coat with a large dog talk on a wealthy porch. Hired hands work. Peasant women wearing head scarves pick potatoes. A peasant in a hat and wool-collared coat lights a cigarette (3:34-4:30). A man pushes a crate of geese (4:58-5:02). Little girls wear elaborate costume dresses. Two women walk wrapped in plaid blanket shawls (5:15-5:28). A Catholic processional passes (5:30-6:05). Men and women with head coverings follow the priest (6:06-6:30). Men mountaineers wearing round hats smoke pipes (6:31-6:39). A male wearing a cape arrives. Potatoes fry in a skillet (6:42-7:35). Colorfully dressed peasants perform a folk dance (7:37-8:10). A Ukrainian woman carries sticks on her back (8:12). A toddler wears a head-scarf (8:30). A Jew carries balloons attached to sticks. A elderly Jewish couple stand under a “M Finkelstein” business sign. (8:40-9:25). Colorful posters ask for money to build schools. Kindergarten children follow a nun in her habit. City school boys wear military-style hats (9:27-9:55). Chopin Monument in Lazienki Park looks over 1930s prams and baby carriages (9:57-10:25). 1938, a street car approaches and its passengers shown. A paper boy runs; people read newspapers. A funeral procession marches (10:27-11:25). Wheelbarrows and shovels are used in construction (11:27). Box train cars pass (11:48). Zinc is processed. A woman pours workers a tin cup of milk (11:50-12:30). Miners dig coal. They ride bicycles home (12:55-13:30). School girls march with a Nazi flag (14:44). Polish soldiers march. General Smigly-Rydz receives a baton from President Moscicki (14:51-15:39). Boys in newsboy caps cheer from a tree. Crowds watch the uniformed army with cannons march and Air Force fly above (15:42-16:03). September 1, 1939, German planes fly overhead. Military posters are shown. German Panzer tanks move into Poland and blow up a bridge (16:05-16:39). Polish Cavalry rush in (16:40-16:54). Volunteers dig fortifications in Warsaw (16:56-17:05). An extreme close-up of a German bomber is shown, and bombs dropping. Rescuers dig through rubble; dead bodies are shown. A woman in a bombed out window stares at a Mary statue. A child clings to a bird in a cage (17:05-17:36). Women pray in rubble and stand in bread food lines (17:46-18:08). The maternity ward with newborns is shown in the hospital’s cellar. Doctors and nurses bandage patients (18:10-18:28). Burning limbs and buildings crumble (18:29-18:39). Warsaw is shown in ruins in 1945 on liberation day. A woman greets Allied soldiers with a