Summary

EUROPE: CENTRAL REGION

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Title: EUROPE: CENTRAL REGION
File Number: EBC-33 Beta SP; NET-476 DigiBeta (at 01:21:33:00)
Color: Color
Type: Educational
Year: 1994
Subjects: Aerials
Description: Color 1994 Encyclopaedia Britannica film on some of the nations of Central Europe (Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Austria, and Switzerland). Provides an introductory geography lesson-style outline on the cultures, climates and economies of the regions. Some inset shots, sometimes mars the stock footage value. Directed by Rudolf Krejcik. 00:52:22:00 Color 1994 Spinning globe of the Earth against black BG. 00:54:51:00 Color 1994 The Bridge of Europe in Austria, Alps in BG similar-looking bridge at 1:07:59. 00:55:06:00 Color 1994 The Alps: VS POV AV of the rocky snow-capped mountain peaks and lush green valleys the largest alpine glacier (name ?) Mont Blanc, POV cockpit of airplane. 00:56:13:00 Color 1994 Narrow Swiss street several Swiss flags hang over the sidewalk wrist watch store window display Swiss bank storefronts. 00:56:45:00 Color 1994 Vienna: the Imperial Palace of Schonbrun, VS the Gothic St Stephen's Cathedral the postmodern Hoshaus building (sp?), EXT and INT. 00:57:57:00 Color 1994 Budapest: panorama the Parliament building Danube River scenes. 00:58:24:00 Color 1994 Prague: buildings, panorama VS plaza, street scenes a McDonald's restaurant EXT brief panorama shot at 0:53:28. 00:59:29:00 Color 1994 Waterfalls large rapids on the Rhine River in Schaffhausen, Switzerland tourists look out on the rapids from overlook ledge and from boats the Rhine valley, VS: boats, barges, and ferries on the river Loreley Rock a castle sloping farm land more at 1:00:41, the Rhine moves through the Ruhr district. 01:00:24:00 Color 1994 Vineyard farmer tends to a field on severely steep slope by riding on a small cart vehicle which is towed upwards by a cable. Unusual farming technique. 01:01:48:00 Color 1994 A canal between Nuremberg and Regensburg (which connects the Rhine and Danube rivers), rural and city scenes VS, barges. 01:02:50:00 Color 1994 A harvester vehicle reaps a crop of red peppers on Hungarian farm heaps of red peppers sit in the sun to dry for paprika use dried peppers are dumped out of truck paprika powder is poured into funnel in factory. 01:03:27:00 Color 1994 The Nazi concentration camp killing center at Auschwitz, VS contemporary color footage, a moody mist sits over the barbed wire fences and grass, good shots [revisiting sites of the holocaust WWII]. 01:03:46:00 Color 1994 East Germany, 1961: Construction of Berlin Wall. USSR Russian soldiers lay down a cordon of barbed wire fence, two shots a street, in Berlin, one side of which is bordered by a wall barricade a defecting man sneaks through under a barbed wire fence, shaky CAM a group of people runs toward and through a barbed wire fence, one of them gets her head caught and falls violently, her friends help her through to the other side of the border. Excellent shots [raising the Iron Curtain, the wall, Cold War]. 01:04:12:00 Color 1994 Ruins of the Berlin Wall after its 1989 demolition, an abandoned watchtower and graffiti ("after the fall...Berlin...the wall") on wall children ride their bikes over a ruined section of the Berlin Wall. Good shots [end of the Cold War]. 01:04:26:00 Color 1994 Berlin: skyscrapers monuments an abstract public sculpture street scenes elderly couple on the street sells sun hats sketch artists on the street draw caricatures. 01:05:03:00 Color 1994 German children in elementary school classroom sing the alphabet, slightly different tune and pronunciation than the English version German children and their teacher speak in English during language lesson, VS. 01:05:43:00 Color 1994 Cows grazing on pasture in Switzerland. 01:05:56:00 Color 1994 Cheese making: milk in vat is churned two workers handle huge cheesecloth containing fermenting, solidifying milk curds wheels of Swiss cheese ripen on stacked trays cheese maker holds a big chunk of cheese and explains the process in broken English. 01:06:47:00 Color 1994 Farmers in Poland pick root vegetables (look like parsnips) by hand, dump laden baskets into truck farmer tosses seeds (?) on to field from pail. 01:07:28:00 Color 1994 Polish farm family and their home: matronly woman in her cozy kitchen farmer, his wife and son at the dinner table empty milk cans and the farm cats cows are let out of their stable and drink from stream. Good family farm shots. 01:08:20:00 Color 1994 A truck train - a train of flatbed cars each carrying a truck - slowly moves down the rails in Switzerland. 01:08:41:00 Color 1994 A sulfur mine in Poland sulfur ore on conveyor belt. 01:08:53:00 Color 1994 Coal miners at work inside coal mine in Silesia, Poland. 01:09:10:00 Color 1994 The "Triangle of Death" region in Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic, VS: power lines strip mining coal pit cooling towers of nuclear power plant polluted waste liquid lagoon barren strip-mined land [pollution, environmental destruction]. 01:10:12:00 Color 1994 Gdansk, Poland: port harbor scenes. 01:10:30:00 Color 1994 Hamburg, Germany: port harbor scenes of the Elbe River estuary. 01:10:41:00 Color 1994 Frankfurt, Germany: skyscrapers the Municipal Opera house EXT the Frankfurt Stock Exchange building EXT INT trading floor scenes, much more subdued then the ravenous stock traders of New York City and London, observers watch from balcony level a large public art kinetic sculpture in plaza in front of skyscraper skyline panorama, also at 0:53:48
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