Title:A JOURNEY THROUGH BAVARIA OR WAGNER, RELIGION AND BEER JULY 11 - AUGUST 18, 1930. PART IV [Main Title]
Film Number:MGH 6616-4
Other titles:COLLECTION OF COPLEY THAW TRAVELOGUES [Alternative Title]
Summary: Amateur film by an American millionaire of a tour through Germany in 1930 with his wife and friends. A basic travelogue visiting popular tourist sites in Bavaria.
Description: "A Journey through Bavaria or Wagner, Religion and Beer July 11 - August 18, 1930 Part IV"
"At St. Johann we turn West and follow the valley of the River Salzach" "We lunch at Mittersill at the inevitable Post-Gasthof" "Going over the Sehl Pass we look back down the Salzach Valley" "ST MORITZ Some views from our bedroom window in the Kulm Hotel. St. Moritz is at an altitude of some 6,000 feet" "We took a ride one day over the Bernina Pass toward Italy" "Great 12,000 foot snow-capped peaks" "And ever-creeping glaciers" "In the snow" "The Bernina Hospice at the summit of one of the highest passes in Europe - nearly 9,000 feet up" "From St. Moritz to Interlaken. We leave St. Moritz travelling North over the Julier Pass" "LAKE ZURICH The city lies some 20 miles down the lake" "Some views of Lucerne" "Cordelia is very tired and muddy from mountain climbing" "We took an ill-advised trip up the Jungfrau. It was cloudy when we left Interlaken, 1,600 feet up. We had luncheon at Schaidegg, 6,200 feet up" "Soon it started to snow" "At the summit of the Jungfrau - 10,500 feet up - a blizzard was raging and the temperature was 8 degrees below Zero Fahrenheit" "The valley below us" "An old 14th century castle in Thun, at the opposite end of Lake Thun from Interlaken" "We return home on the S.S. France. Peggy with Mr. Finletter's dachshund puppies, Mit and Ohne" Deck games on board the ship. "The Caesars and Peggy" "Mr. Finletter" "The Comte de Rochefort"
Alternative Title:COLLECTION OF COPLEY THAW TRAVELOGUES [Alternative Title]
Colour:B&W
Digitised:No
Object_Number:MGH 6616-4
Sound:Silent
Access Conditions:NON-IWM
Featured Period:
Production Date:1930
Production Country: United States of America
Production Details: Thaw, Lawrence Copley (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations:
Keywords:
Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W
Sound format: Silent
Soundtrack language: English
Title language: English
Technical Details: Format: 16mm
Number of items/reels/tapes: 1
Running time: 10 mins
