Overview
- Description
- REEL 6. The Americans drink wine in a wine cellar at a vineyard. They sail down the Rhine River. President Schanz takes numerous photos. Steam rises from the funnel of a boat on the water. The University of Bonn, cloisters, Nazi flags decorates the streets of Bonn. The group visits the house where Beethoven was born, bronze statue in garden. They tour Cologne. The gothic cathedral architecture. They go to nearby Liblar where Carl Schurz was born. President Schanz places a wreath against the wall beneath the bronze plate in memory of Carl Schurz. The final stop is Hamburg. Sightseeing in the city, harbor. Large ocean liner, the New York of the Hamburg-America line, docked for those on the Carl Schurz Tour. A montage of different ships in the harbor. The flag of Germany and the Nazi flag fly side by side at the Hamburg-America Line port. The Carl Schurz tour group boards the ship, waving goodbye to the camera. President Schanz lifts his camera to his eye one more time. Ends with the bronze bust of Carl Schurz and “THE END.”
- Film Title
-
Germany 1934
- Film Collection Title
- Herbert Davis Vogel Collection
- Duration
- 00:09:53
- Date
-
Event:
July 7-August 9, 1934
- Locale
-
Hamburg,
Germany
Bonn, Germany
Cologne, Germany
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Library of Congress
- Contributor
-
Director:
Otto Bothmer
Camera Operator: Erich Menzel
Music: Walter Winnig
Sound Contributor: Erich Dolle
Producer: UFA
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Genre/Form
- Documentary.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Fair
- Film Format
- Master
Master 4266 Digital: ProRes SD 422 - b&w - sound - SD
Master 4266 Digital: ProRes SD 422 - b&w - sound - SD
Master 4266 Digital: ProRes SD 422 - b&w - sound - SD
Master 4266 Digital: ProRes SD 422 - b&w - sound - SD
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Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased high-resolution copies of amateur films and other footage from the Library of Congress in February 2017.
- Note
- Carl Schurz was a German emigre who became active in American reform politics in the post-Civil War era, and was President Hayes’s Secretary of the Interior.
- Film Source
- Library of Congress - Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division (MBRS)
- File Number
- Source Archive Number: 1195062-2-6
- Special Collection
-
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:29:56
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