Travelogue in Bavaria

Identifier
irn539739
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • RG-60.6982
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

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Scope and Content

Travelogue with professional shooting and editing. Old man takes two young women on horse-drawn cart, as tourists. Bavaria. Streams, hills, kayaking on rapids. Two men in lederhosen steer large log raft across wide river, onto rocky shore. Anchoring the raft. “Alte Städtchen” Exotic village. Boys whistling on bicycles, put bikes on raft. (Wandervögel tradition) Large group of boys reach other side, go off on their bikes. Two men & raft on rapid narrow course, white water. Locks, under bridge. Very picturesque; pretty valley. (Narrator: Munich people like to go there.) Destination: ‘Old Munich’. Biergarten, various views. Bridge, Deutsches Museum building, statue. Nuremberg-like city scene, market place. “Grosse Bayerische Bauernhilfe” Wheat, horses gathering hay. Romantic blood & soil scenes. Girls in dirndls; boys. “Alte Stätdtchen” Shops. Shepherd & sheep along Isar/Donau. Men playing flutes. ENDE

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