Metadata
WORK ID: YFA 4555 (Master Record)
Title | Year | Date |
HOLIDAY IN GERMANY | c.1935 | 1932-01-01 |
Details
Original Format: 16mm Colour: Black & White Sound: Silent Duration: 15 mins Credits: George Wood Subject: ENTERTAINMENT / LEISURE TRAVEL |
Summary A film by George Wood of a holiday with friends to Germany in the 1930s, visiting Cologne and St Goar, possibly with a Scouts party. |
Description
A film by George Wood of a holiday with friends to Germany in the 1930s, visiting Cologne and St Goar, possibly with a Scouts party.
The film begins with four men in suits and ties who sit around a table overlooking the Rhine at Cologne. Behind them is a suspension bridge with a trolleybus crossing it. A woman pushes a baby in a pram along a wide street. On the other side of the river is Cologne Cathedral. The four men now stand in front of the main doors to the cathedral. They are joined by...
A film by George Wood of a holiday with friends to Germany in the 1930s, visiting Cologne and St Goar, possibly with a Scouts party.
The film begins with four men in suits and ties who sit around a table overlooking the Rhine at Cologne. Behind them is a suspension bridge with a trolleybus crossing it. A woman pushes a baby in a pram along a wide street. On the other side of the river is Cologne Cathedral. The four men now stand in front of the main doors to the cathedral. They are joined by another man in shorts. The front of the cathedral is shown close up, as is the nearby steel bridge crossing the Rhine. A sign on side of a building states, 'DJH' (Cologne-Deutz City Youth Hostel). A group of men and boys in shorts, possibly Scouts, stand and sit outside a large building. A large group poses and then they march off down a road, in semi-uniform, along with a group of girls who are all wearing flowery dresses, many with pony tails.
Next they are on a boat on a trip along the Rhine, lined with hills. At the back of the boat flies the Nazis flag (Swastika). There is a sign for 'Nibelungenhalle - Richard Wagner Gedachtnis-Tempel'. St Goar Castle can be seen up in the hills overlooking the river. Looking down the other way there is an island in the river and some ruins. Five men in shorts and with walking sticks and large back packs walk up a path. They meet a group of people gathered to sing songs with a ukulele player and a guitar. They then walk along the side of the river. A group of children walk past a jetty for Koln-Dusseldorf. One of the men has a cine camera case slung over his back. A boat arrives and passengers get off. They come across a sculpture of a rambler sat at a table with a drink, pointing towards a 'wanderweg'. They then go swimming in an outdoor pool and have a cold shower. They look down across the river from Festung Ehrenbreitstein at a large statue of William1st on a promenade, the Deutsches Eck, and over the city of Koblenz with the rivers and bridges.
They walk towards St Kastor Church in Koblenz and the Deutsches Eck. They then take a trip along the river looking up at St Goar Castle, which they visit, looking down onto the vineyards. A group of people gather in a building in the hills and look down on a large church in St Goar. They visit various places in the town.
A large group of uniformed men carrying back packs and shovels and with swastikas on their armbands exit a building and the film comes to an end.
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