Title:AUSTRIAN VILLAGE, PRAGUE 1936 [Allocated Title]
Film Number:MGH 4343
Other titles:MATTHEW NATHAN AMATEUR FILM COLLECTION [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Amateur film showing some aspects of life in a pre-Second World War Austrian village.
Description: "Austrian Village" People on their way to the village church. A priest talking to some children. A mixture of modern and traditional clothes are worn. Women wear traditional long, black skirts, men and boys wear top hats, waistcoats and britches. Hotel Taube flies, amongst other national flags, the swastika. A group of musicians playing the fiddle, accordion and zither. Children in traditional costume, lederhosen and bibbed dresses. Street scenes. A woman walks along the street with a cow. Little girls play with dolls and prams. A chalet-style house in the mountains. Flowers and fruit trees. Alpine landscape views. A young woman using a scythe. A close-up of an old man smoking a pipe. People prepare and carry hay bundles. A shire horse pulls a small cart. Village and landscape scenes. "The End"
"Prague" A general view of the city. The Czech Army on parade in a courtyard. Shots of the cathedral. Modern flats. A lido alongside the river. Street scenes, market stalls. View up Wenceslas Square towards National Museum. Shops. Flowers. "A Peasant Festival" A large parade with people wearing folk costume, carrying maypoles. Crowds line the streets. People riding decorated horses. A decorated float passes by. A sausage vendor, and drink stall. Some people sitting drinking beer. A poster advertising the festival, 4 - 6 July 1936. The parade concludes in a stadium where people gather and watch further processions and dances. The Czech flag is also paraded. A young couple sitting on some steps. A band plays in the square. A shot of a St Nicholas Church ? near a bridge over the River Vltava. The National Museum in Wenceslas Square. Neon lights at night. "The End"
Alternative Title:MATTHEW NATHAN AMATEUR FILM COLLECTION [Allocated Series Title]
