us-005578-irn612655
type: RecordSet
date: Spring / Summer 1936
has or had holder: us-005578
has or had identifier: 1
has or had some members with language: Silent
has record set type: Item
identifier: irn612655
note: Other items in the collection indicate that Matthew Nathan had some professional camera experience in the production of sponsored films.
scope and content: Amateur footage shot in Schruns, Austria (identified by the location of the Hotel Taube, which appears in the film). AUSTRIAN VILLAGE title. Low aerial shots of picturesque village, focusing on a church spire. Children and adults, many dressed very formally and/or in local costume (long dresses, hats, dirndls) walk outdoors near the church. A priest or monk speaks with a group of young boys. Townspeople, men and boys wear top hats and lederhosen or breeches, on the occasion of a Catholic holiday(?). Shop signs advertise film equipment/stock - Agfa and Perutz. 01:59 German flag with a swastika, along with flags of France, Switzerland, and the Netherlands(?), hanging outside the Hotel Taube. EXT of the hotel and people outside. 02:40 Musicians, two men and one woman watched by children (the musicians could be Roma, but the woman plays a Schrammel guitar, which is an instrument used to play a certain kind of Austrian folk music). Façade of the Hotel Taube and flags, including swastika. More quaint and picturesque scenes: a woman leads a cow down a street; two girls play with dolls in a field; different types of flowers in bloom; landscape. Women and children perform farm labor in a grain field, farm animals. CU of an elderly woman smoking a large pipe. Farming and daily life in the town. 8:01 THE END 08:05 PRAGUE title. Czech Army(?) troops in a courtyard at the Prague castle. EXT and INT shots of a cathedral with windows designed by Alfons Mucha and a large modern building built in 1932-1934, the first tall building in Prague. Vltava river. Busy street scenes with trams, automobiles, and well-dressed pedestrians in Wenceslas Square and environs. CUs of flowers and fruit for sale. 11:53 A PEASANT FESTIVAL title. WS of a parade of people dressed in local costume walking down the street, holding maypoles. Parade and spectators. Food stands prepare sausages. CUs of people smiling for the camera. 15:30 CU, poster advertising a Philatelists Congress on 4-6 July 1936 (probab…
title: Prewar life in an Austrian village and tourist views of Prague