European Trip 1930s - Amateur Film - Part 4 of 4

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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: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVDG51S7BBc
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VAKbGmr_Y8
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVp3U_tteZg

Part 4:
00:32 On the train again. The train stops by the Austrian (?) border and military or police inspect the trains.
00:43 Sign at railway station: Salzburg. Streets and architecture, views of the castle and a snowy Salzburg.
02:05 A snowy park with skiing and sledging people
02:18 Munich
04:23 Sign: München Hbf (Munich railway station)
04:27 Berlin. German Wehrmacht marching (by Neue Wache)
05:08 Sights in Berlin
05:32 Street signs in black (gothic) letters: Under den Linden, Schinkelplatz
05:44 Potsdam: the castle, Sans Souci, the windmill and monuments in the park
06:52 Brandenburger Tor. Now a colour reel (bleak colour)
07:12 Siegessäule with waving Nazi flags
07:24 A house with waving Nazi flags and Bill in front of it
07:40 A railway station
07:57 A ship in a harbour (Hamburg?)
08:13 The ship sails. The sea seen from the stem.


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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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[cologneskater]

At 2:29 the film is dated to 1938.

[BulsarDe]

@cologneskater Many thanks for the information!

[Wannseebahn]

ich meine damit keineswegs die politischen verhältniße dieser zeit, sondern lediglich den zeitgeist an sich.

[Wannseebahn]

tja, daran kann man ersehen, wie herrlich unser deutschland einst war, gäbe es diese filmaufnahme in farbe! :-)

[bluetruckredstate]

Intriguing film, where and how did you find this?

[snuffying]

@tobilein0 eah you are right..... :D

[tobilein0]

@snuffying

60%???

Thats 80 years ago!!!

I would wonder, If there 2% of those people are still alive, but never ever 40%!!!

[snuffying]

this is so creepy... it's like a scene from a nazi experiment horror movie.. and maybe more than 60% of the people in this movie are dead.

[jackoftrades80]

I don't know if it helps but I noticed that the building shown on 7:35 has a big sign saying "Bristol". Could they have taken a boat back home from England?

[john2890]

amazing footage. Thank you for the upload!