[Home Movies: Wathen Collection: European Trip, 1930s]

Please note that Parts 1 and 2 reflect the division of the film into two parts in the Internet Archive online collection.Part 1, bw00:00 TITLE Vagabonds Abroad. A Pictorial narrative of my European travels.TITLE Bill and I sail for Europe abroad the Vulcania, March 21st!00:09 Waving people. The ship sails.00:30 TITLE The Azores! First land seen in five days!00:40 The ship sails into a port.01:05 TITLE Picturesque and charming Lisbon, our first European port.01:13 Streets in Lisbon. A tram. Bill appears. Flaneurs.01:35 Women with baskets on the head pass by.01:43 19th century monument.01:51 TITLE Anchored at Gibraltar, vendors show us their wares.01:56 Views of the cliff of Gibraltar. Vendors appear in rowing boats.02:47 TITLE Algiers, city of contrasts! The modern French section.02:55 Panorama. La Dﾏpﾎche Algﾏrienne. Streets. A park.03:28 TITLE We saw some strange sights in the old Arabic quarters.03:36 A square. A boy in fez waves to the camera. A narrow and steep alley.03:54 Three women in white hijabs hurry by, while some boys laugh.04:15 Back on the Vulcania again.04:37 TITLE Shores of Sicily rise in the distance. We dock at Palermo.04:46 Rocky shores. The harbour of Palermo05:25 TITLE Vesuvius - the bay of Naples - Our first lodgings ashore. April 3rd05:33 View of Vesuvius from the ship.05:42 A street in Naples. Bill and another young man comes along.05:48 The youth hostel, Wandererheim Fatty06:09 TITLE Via funicular we gained height for this panoramic view of Naples.06:16 Views of Naples06:29 A boy with a dog walks down some stairs.06:33 TITLE We cross the bay to the enchanted isle of Capri06:40 Views of Vesuvius from the ship06:48 Capri, panoramas.07:05 Albergo Grotta Azurra Ristorante.07:24 TITLE A small boat takes to the Blue Grotto07:31 People in rowing boats, the Vulcania in the background. Female tourists laughing. Inside the Grotta Azurra (Blue Grotto)07:51 More views of Capri (?)08:13 Sign: Principaute de Monaco08:17 Hotel in Nice (?)08:33 TITLE We spent a delightful week in Nice, famous French resort08:43 Views of the seashore with a pier, hotels, fashionable flaneurs, cafﾎs09:34 The Alps: our frinds climb a mountain, admire snowy alps and a village far down in a valley.11:15 A hotel with good view of alps11:39 TITLE May 11th. We arrive in Geneva, Switzerland by bus.11:46 The bus. A street. Bill studies a memorial tablet honouring Woodrow Wilson as the founder of the League of Nations.12:05 Views from a train.12:23 Unterlaken-Ost. Streets. Alps13:11 TITLE Dreams of Swiss Alpine scenery come true at Wengen and the Jungfrau!13:20 Views of the Jungfrau and a valley. Bill throws a snowball.14.32 Unterlaken-Ost again14.45 TITLE Swiss lake scenery at Lucerne. Boat trip to Fluelen14:53 Streets in Lucerne. Lake. Alps. Panoramas16:53 On the train again. Chateau-Thierry. Trip up the Rhine17:08 A war monument (World War I)17:54 TITLE Our Rhine trip comes to a climactic end at Cologne18:03 Cologne with the dome18:25 TITLE The "Hindenburg" passes over Cologne heading towards Berlin18:33 Hindenburg passes and disappears behind rooftops18:41 TITLE We found a bit of old world atmosphere in Brussels18:50 Granc Place and other sights in Brussels.Part 2, bw, from 16:12 colour (no titles)00:00 Neon signs by night, probably in Vienna00:11 Sign "Spanische Reitschule". Streets and architecture of Vienna03:14 Street sign "Opernring". Wiener Stadtoper03:36 A cup of coffee, probably in a Wiener cafﾎ04:05 Schloss Schoenbrunn04:46 Neon sign "Budapest"04:52 View over a plain and a village from a train05:06 Budapest sights (beautiful pictures from foggy and clear days in this city): bridges, the Danube, the castle, streets, a poster pillar by the river, monuments, sculptures, churches, a synagogue, the Parliament09:52 On the train again. The train stops by the Austrian (?) border and military or police inspect the trains.10:05 Sign at railway station: Salzburg. Streets and architecture, views of the castle and a snowy Salzburg.11:24 A snowy park with skiing and sledging people12:36 Munich13:43 Sign: Mﾟnchen Hbf (Munich railway station)13:47 Berlin. Nazis marching (by Brandenburger Tor?)14:28 Sights in Berlin14:52 Street signs in black (gothic) letters: Under den Linden, Schinkelplatz15:04 Potsdam: the castle, Sans Souci, the windmill and monuments in the park16:12 Brandenburger Tor. Now a colour reel (bleak color)16:30 A monument with waving Nazi flags16:39 A house with waving Nazi flags and Bill in front of it17:01 A railway station17:18 A ship in a harbour (Hamburg?)17:38 The ship sails. The sea seen from the stem.