1960s TRIP TO AUSTRIA HOME MOVIE VIENNA SALZBURG INNSBRUCK TYROL ALPS 58354

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Shot by an unknown American tourist, this silent, color home movie is about a visit to Austria including Vienna and Salzburg. This is circa the 1950s or early 1960s.

Buildings and cars (:08). Imposing building, possibly a train station or city hall, amongst the green hills and mountains (:16). Building nested into a hillside (1:05). People walk around (1:14). Farm, houses, rolling green hills (1:24). Clear cut area where lumber is being harvested (1:48) People ride bikes past a bus in Kindberg, a municipality in the district of Bruck-Mürzzuschlag in Styria, Austria (1:50). An sign for Sommerfrische, a slightly outdated term for summer holiday retreat (2:10). People walk around a city street (2:25). People walk near and visit Belvedere Palace in Vienna (3:07). Statue of Erzherzog Karl (Archduke Karl) which faces fellow equestrian monument of Prinz Eugen Reiter and the Hapsburg Palace. Small dock (3:35). Vienna streets and buildings (3:43). Stephansdom, also known as St. Stephen’s Cathedral (3:54) Older women in Austria (4:22). Sign for Donaubus Station Melk Bunkerstation -- apparently a bus to the resort city of Melk located about 50 miles away (4:27). Women walk through a street in Melk on the Danube ; a car and people (4:48). Women use scythes and cut crops; sharpen a scythe (5:22). Water flows down the Danube (5:55). A couple walks by a mountainous lake; amazing mountain view (6:02). Orange sunset (6:48). Pegasus Horse Statue in Salzburg, Austria (7:02). City of Salzburg, Austria (7:33). People grouped around the trick fountains, table of the prince, Roman Theater, Hellbrunn Castle, Salzburg (7:55). Snowy Austrian Alps (8:14). Gasthof zur Linde, Oberdrauburg (8:24). Lush green rolling hills as girls ride towards camera on bicycles (8:32). Title card: The Austrian Tyrol. Innsbruck surrounded by Tyrolian Alps (9:35). From the town of Igls, near Innsbruck (9:55). Taking a cable car up to Patscherkofel, a mountain and ski area in the Alps, in Tyrol in western Austria, south of Innsbruck. (10:02). Water, trees, fog shrouded mountains (10:20). Buildings, downtown district, a small religious procession in which people in traditional clothes carry a statue of Mary, mother of Christ and of Jesus Christ (10:35). This is possibly Fronleichnam or Corpus Christi, the Catholic feast of the Eucharist. People dressed in their church clothes (11:45). Building up high against the mountains (12:24). People pose for the camera (12:31). Rushing river water (13:00) A bus goes through a covered bridge (13:08), probably in Innsbruck, the capital of Tyrol. Its name literally means "bridge on the Inn River".

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