17 May during the occupation of Norway
Celebration in a garden in Baghdad in 1941
A day to celebrate freedom: 17 May
17 . On May 1940, all celebrations in Norway of and flagging on the national day were banned by the German-controlled Administration Council. The flag was increasingly used as a visual protest against the occupying power, and the Germans implemented more and more ordinances to meet this. The pictures on this page are taken from the archive of photographer Finn Bergan and show the May 17 celebration in a garden in Baghdad 1941.
The archive is part of the photo collections managed by The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology . All digitized images can be used free of charge for any purpose in the resolution that can be downloaded from Digitalt museum or the museum's own website. As a user of the image, you are responsible for complying with obligations such as privacy and the photographer's right to respectful reproduction.
Finn was on a long journey by train and boat to Canada and the USA to receive training as an aerial photographer for the Allied forces during World War II.
We quote from wikipedia:
Finn Bergan (born 9 July 1918 in Rjukan , died 25 March 1986 in Oslo ) was a Norwegian cinematographer .
Bergan received war photography training from Louis de Rochemont in New York in 1941. He came to Great Britain , and filmed and photographed at the Norwegian branches of the Norwegian Information Service in London. He then joined RAF Bomber Command , where as a flight lieutenant became head of the photography department in 101 Squadron RAF. On 27 September 1943, he took part as a photographer and gunner in a trip to Hanover . The plane, an Avro Lancaster parachute out . He spent the rest of the war as a prisoner of war . [5]
He debuted in 1948 as a B-movie photographer for Kampen om tungvannet and the same year Trollfossen . In 1949 he had photography at Gategutter , and since then became one of Norwegian cinema's most used feature photographers. He photographed a number of Arne Skouen's films, including Cirkus Fandango (1954) and Det brenner i natt! (1955). He was also a photographer on films as diverse as Vi gifter oss (1951), the Tarjei Vesaas adaptation of Dei svarte hestane (1951) and several of Ivo Caprino's films, including Ugler i mosen (1959) and Caprino's fully animated films, including The Seventh Father in the house (1966), Askeladden and the good helpers (1961) and Tim and Tøffe (1949).
He also worked for NRK .
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External sources:
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