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Continental Motor Tour, 1920s - Film 49414

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Caption: Disembarking at Calais - Car being unloaded from ship by crane

Caption: Liege Belgium Fort Which Held Up the Germans 1914 -extended shots of earth barricades and fortifications. S village

Caption: Wiesbaden; Rhineland; Kursaal - pan palace and grounds

Caption: Munich, Germany - short sequence of men marching with flags, fountain and lovely street scenes CONT'D

Caption: [Lake] Chiemesee, Bavaria - pan lake. Having afternoon tea at tables by lake. Views from cable car

Caption: Salzberg, Austria - N.B. KODACOLOR SEQUENCES IMMEDIATELY AFTER CAPTION AS FOLLOWS: pan roof tops, people at ticket office(?), countryside. END KODACOLOR
s weir and mill or warehouse buildings by river, lake and mountains, ferries, bridge, castle on hillsideCaption: Hamburg Harbour - good shot Chester car on quayside, var GOOD s Harbour with shipping and docks.

END 1929 FILM. FOLLOWED BY 1933 FILM

Caption: Madiera Cruise "S.S. Lapland" Easter 13/4/33: good s 4 ladies sitting and waving on horizontal ship's mast, being photgraphed by cameraman in spats *(almost Hollywood!) cs lady sunbathers larking around on deck.

Caption: Lisbon and Estoril, Easter Sunday 1933: s numerous cars parked on dockside. Ls Estoril Palace, pan buildings and harbour,
has buildings, ladies with policeman, ladies out of car, memorial statue, tropical gardens, 2 local women with trays on heads (girl in between pushed out of way), plush hotel and gardens, palace. Beach ball and scenes, woman in bathing costume combing hair.

KODACOLOR AGAIN - GOOD SEQUENCE: Caption: Madeira, Funchal 18/4/33: shots of bum boats taken from ship, shipping in harbour, local traders on board ship selling wares, bourgainvillia and flowers in gardens, church in valley, church on hill top, tourists at hill top and man selling necklaces (puts one round lady's neck), 2 men in stationary Austin Seven type car, man on wooden sled pulled by oxen, has sunny terraces, girl in bathing costume posing for camera, smoking cigarette, then in dress; girl in art deco type bathing costume climbing on terrace and posing for camera with cigarette, girl with bouquet of flowers, girls in deck chairs, bathing beauty contest on board ship. END KODACOLOR

Pan shore line, s ship "Adolph Woermann" (see Wikipedia et al under "SS Adolph Woermann"). North Africa: disembarking from ship, performing monkey, pan harbour, 4 girls in fur collared coats walking along smiling and laughing, sentries outside moorish courtyard and palace, covered or veiled woman in street, street and buildings, seated soldiers cleaning their guns, and ladies behind them for photo opportunity, street scenes and local people in old quarter, mosque entrance
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