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Sightseeing in Bavaria and the Rhine district in 1937

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 2017.326 | RG Number: RG-60.0183 | Film ID: 4348

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    Sightseeing in Bavaria and the Rhine district in 1937

    Overview

    Description
    "Peasants in the Fields" Farmers. "Rothenburg on the Tauber" (color) Bavarian district. Medieval buildings with lush plants. "Dinkelsbuhl" Facades of businesses with flowers, hotel, local civilians, street scenes. 01:04:02 (switches to black and white) Street views in Dinkelsbuehl. CU, entryway with memorial plaque. Schoolgirls in white walk in the road.

    01:04:58 "Heidelberg" (color). Scenic views of castle in Heidelberg, river, bridge, and buildings. 01:07:06 "On the Rhine" Small group of musicians play instruments on the street. HAS, Autobahn with passing truck, overpass. "Coca-Cola" refreshment stand, INTs. Boat on the Rhine. People board the boat - "Koln-Dusseldorfer." Castles along the river.

    01:09:10 "The Wine Festival at Oberwesel" Crowds gathered outdoors in Oberwesel for a wine festival. Couples dancing. Swastika flags. Cigarette and wine stands. Band. Crowd waiting by the river for boat. Sausages. Castle walls. Hotel-Restaurant-Rheinterrasse. Street. People with umbrellas observe a ceremony under covered gazebo. 01:12:07 Children hiking on grassy path, CUs. Women follow with rain ponchos. Scenic views of the Rhine river and castles, taken from a boat. Group of BDM girls with backpacks march along the road. More scenic shots of the Rhine and riverboats cruising. 01:14:55 "Two famous Castles Burg Gutenfels Burg Rheinstein" (color, some damage with magenta dye) LS, the castles, manicured gardens, and the Rhine river. KODAK
    Duration
    00:17:05
    Date
    Event:  1937
    Locale
    Heidelberg, Germany
    Germany
    Oberwesel, Germany
    Rothenburg, Germany
    Dinkelsbuehl, Germany
    Credit
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, gift of Ann Major
    Contributor
    Camera Operator: Ralph H. Major
    Biography
    Ralph H. Major, MD (1884-1970) was an American doctor from Kansas City, Missouri teaching medicine at the University of Munich in the 1930s. His children, Ralph Jr. (b. 1920) and John (b. 1924), attended a boarding school in Marquartstein, Germany during the time. His wife Margaret (b. 1891) and daughter Virginia (b. 1926) visited them in Europe in the summers of 1933, 1934 and 1937. Major captured several reels of 16mm film of Albania and Yugoslavia, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Mexico, Spain, Belgium, and England.

    Physical Details

    Language
    Silent
    Genre/Form
    Amateur.
    B&W / Color
    Color
    Black & White
    Film Format
    • Master
    • Master 4348 Film: positive - 16 mm - b&w and color - reversal - Kodachrome
      Master 4348 Film: positive - 16 mm - b&w and color - reversal - Kodachrome
      Master 4348 Film: positive - 16 mm - b&w and color - reversal - Kodachrome
      Master 4348 Film: positive - 16 mm - b&w and color - reversal - Kodachrome

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    You do not require further permission from the Museum to access this archival media.
    Copyright
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    Conditions on Use
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum places no restrictions on use of this material. You do not require further permission from the Museum to reproduce or use this film footage.

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    Administrative Notes

    Film Provenance
    Ann Major contributed her grandfather's film collection for study and analysis to Snowden Becker's graduate level seminar on home movies at the University of California at Los Angeles in Spring 2016. Ms. Becker contacted the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's film archivist about Major's home movies of Europe and Ms. Major then donated 18 of the 42 original 16mm films to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in November 2016.
    Note
    Original paper in can: Peasants in Fields, Rothenburg, Dinkelsbuhl, Heidelberg, Rhine
    Film Source
    Ms. Ann Major
    Record last modified:
    2024-02-21 08:06:48
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