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American Vagabonds on Grand Tour
This is my favourite amateur film. The photographer has a true interest in places, sights and buildings visited, and most of the footage has high quality. Some young Americans - "Bill and I" - travel in Europe, probably in 1936 (the airship Hindenburg is seen passing Cologne heading towards Berlin). They leave New York in march and sail home in the autumn. They go by boat and train and come to many places: Lisbon, Gibraltar, Algiers, Palermo, Naples, Capri, Monaco, Geneva, Wengen, Lucerne, Cologne, Brussels, Vienna, Budapest, Salzburg, Munich and Berlin.
I don't know who these people are, or if they did something more than sightseeing during this half year. You get glimpses of personal life, but in the end you find anonymity. Their tourist perspective seems to change during the trip. First they see "picturesque" and "strange" things. Algiers is a "city of contrasts". They come to "The modern French section", and then see "some strange sights in the old Arabic quarters". Some women in hijabs run away from the offensive tourist camera, while some boys laugh - at the Americans. In Vienna, Budapest and Berlin they see more of the ordinary life between the great buildings, and they see the Nazis. There are great pictures of Nazis marching in Berlin and of the people watching. Near the end, now in colour, we see a brown house with bright red Nazi flags waving in the wind. Bill stands in front of this house. Strange enough, his colours are almost the same as the Nazi colours - a camel-hair ulster, a red scarf and a brown hat - but he seems to feel uncomfortable standing there. - The thrill of these amateur films is that you see scenes like these and only can guess what they mean.
Part 1:
00:12 TITLE Vagabonds Abroad. A Pictorial narrative of my European travels. TITLE Bill and I sail for Europe abroad the Vulcania, March 21st!
00:21 Waving people. The ship sails.
00:42 TITLE The Azores! First land seen in five days!
00:52 The ship sails into a port.
01:17 TITLE Picturesque and charming Lisbon, our first European port.
01:25 Streets in Lisbon. A tram. Bill appears. Flaneurs.
01:47 Women with baskets on the head pass by.
01:55 19th century monument.
01:03 TITLE Anchored at Gibraltar, venders show us their wares.
02:08 Views of the cliff of Gibraltar. Venders appear in rowing boats.
02:59 TITLE Algiers, city of contrasts! The modern French section.
03:07 Panaroma. La Dèpéche Algèrienne. Streets. A park.
03:40 TITLE We saw some strange sights in the old Arabic quarters.
03:48 A square. A boy in fez waves to the camera. A narrow and steep alley.
04:06 Three women in white hijabs hurry by, while some boys laugh.
04:27 Back on the Vulcania again.
04:49 TITLE Shores of Sicily rise in the distance. We dock at Palermo.
04:58 Rocky shores. The harbour of Palermo
05:37 TITLE Vesuvius - the bay of Naples - Our first lodgings ashore. April 3rd
05:45 View of Vesuvius from the ship.
05:54 A street in Naples. Bill and another young man comes along.
06:00 The youth hostel, Wandererheim Fatty
06:21 TITLE Via funicular we gained height for this panoramic view of Naples.
06:28 Views of Naples
06:41 A boy with a dog walks down some stairs.
06:45 TITLE We cross the bay to the enchanted isle of Capri
06:52 Views of Vesuvius from the ship
07:00 Capri, panoramas.
07:17 Albergo Grotta Azurra Ristorante.
07:36 TITLE A small boat takes to the Blue Grotto
07:43 People in rowing boats, the Vulcania in the background. Female tourists laughing. Inside the Grotta Azurra (Blue Grotto)
08:03 More views of Capri (?)
08:25 Sign: Principaute de Monaco
08:29 Hotel in Nice (?)
08:45 TITLE We spent a delightful week in Nice, famous French resort
08:55 Views of the seashore with a pier, hotels, fashionable flaneurs, cafés
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VAKbGmr_Y8
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVp3U_tteZg
Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZ7tmYH6s9M
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Creative Commons license Public Domain:
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Der Film ist Gemeinfrei und unterliegt keinem Urheberrecht mehr: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/deed.de
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European Trip 1930s - Amateur Film - Part 2 of 4by BulsarDe8,354 views
nice
mediamen5 2 years ago 3
Very good.
MegaKitch 2 years ago 2