Summary

France

Source Archive Films by Getty Images
Title: France
File Number: AD-147 Beta SP; 16mm
Color: Color
Type: Travelogue
Year: 1940's; 1950's; 1960's
Subjects: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, travelogues, Europe, French Alps, Italian Alps, Europeans, mountain ; climbers, rock climbers, mountaineering, mountain climbing, alpine climbing, alpine sports, ; alpinism, adventure, risk, searches and rescues, rescuing, hazards, hazardous, icy, slippery, ; winter, mountains, viewpoints, abseiling, rappeling, abbing, pickaxe, pickaxes, overhead cable ; cars, mountain ranges, mountains, aerial tramways, aerial lifts, alpine glaciers, ice grottos, ; glacier grottos, ice caves, mountain glacier, viewpoint, outlooks, scenic, overlooks, ; sightseeing
Description: Travelogues from the late 1940s or 1950s filmed probably in the Mont Blanc mountain located in the French Italian Alps. Contains excellent footage of mountain climbers ascending ice and snow-covered mountainsides, steep cliff faces, using ice axes to chisel away ice, and tying on crampons. Rescue teams practicing drills such as crevasse rescues and lowering a mock victim down a mountain in a rescue chair. Tourists carefully walking around an ice grotto, looking at mountain vistas, riding in overhead cable cars and dining at mountain outlooks. Also features people enjoying a game of golf in the shadow of Mont Blanc (probably) and footage in Chamonix, including folk dancing and people relaxing by a lake outdoor swimming pool. *************************************************************************************************** 00:59:49:08 France Roll 9 Mont Blanc? France Italy VS ascending overhead cable car views of snow-covered mountain. VS cable car views POVs approaching mountain summit station at mountain summit (shaky). Bright flowers in soil. TD from snow-covered mountain to people waiting at train station. VS train views of snow-covered mountain behind tree-tops & alpine glacier. VS mountain peaks & summits. LA buildings on hill above. 01:01:45:00 Mont Blanc? France Italy People sitting at tables at mountain viewpoint (outlook). VS children & women eating at mountain viewpoint. VS tourists carefully walking down mountain path (steps). 01:02:52:06 Mont Blanc? France Italy VS tourists looking at view carefully walking on icy mountain (alpine glacier?) & into ice grotto glacier grotto. (good shots, sightseeing, tourism, French Alps, glacier grottos, ice grottos) 01:05:11:07 Mont Blanc? France Italy Boy using ice axe to chisel ice from mountainside. Two men using rope in preparation to cross crevasse. VS TU alpine glacier. 01:06:09:10 Mont Blanc? France Italy TU group of mountain climbers at base of mountain. Male & female mountain climbers hiking on mountain path. VS mountain climbers tying crampons on around boots. VS group of mountain climbers ascending snow ice-covered mountain. (good shots, mountaineering, mountain climbing, alpine climbing, alpinism) 01:07:32:29 Mont Blanc? France Italy CU mountain climbers walking across icy mountainside w crampons attached to their boots. VS group of mountain climbers ascending snow ice-covered mountain. Mountain climber crouching down on snow & leaning on ice axe. (good shots, mountaineering, mountain climbing, alpine climbing, alpinism) 01:08:58:00 Mont Blanc? France Italy WS LS group of mountain climbers standing on snow-covered mountain as one man chips w ice axe. VS mountain climbers using ice axes to chip away at icy surface of mountainside. VS group of mountain climbers ascending snow ice-covered mountain. (good shots, mountaineering, mountain climbing, alpine climbing, alpinism) 01:10:15:23 Mont Blanc? France Italy VS people near alpine glacier or walking towards it. TD from snow-covered mountain to people walking near ice grotto glacier grotto. Man throwing supplies to man on other side of crevasse. TU alpine glacier to snow-covered mountain. PAN & TU mountain peak. 01:11:49:05 Mont Blanc? France Italy VS group of mountain climbers loading equipment & boarding truck for College National Alpinisme Chamonix VS group of mountain climbers hiking along mountain path. CU mountain climber tying crampon on around boot. VS group of mountain climbers ascending snow ice-covered mountain. CU mountain climber using ice axe to chip away at icy mountainside. (good shots, mountaineering, mountain climbing, alpine climbing, alpinism) 01:13:47:19 Mont Blanc? France Italy VS snow-covered mountain peak. Time-lapse billowing clouds passing over snow-covered mountain (slightly shaky). PAN snow-covered mountain range. 01:14:42:24 Mont Blanc? France Italy VS overhead cable cars ski lifts ascending & descending over snow-covered mountain. HA village in valley (Chamonix?). TU side of mountain. TU alpine glacier. 01:16:30:23 Mont Blanc? France Italy VS men & women playing golf on picturesque valley w mountain looming overhead (Mont Blanc?). (good shots, outdoor leisure activities, recreation, sports, French Alps, European culture, Europe) 01:18:41:28 Chamonix, France Mont Blanc VS people in swimsuits sunbathing on grass or swimming playing in lake in shadow of snow-covered Mont Blanc (mountain). VS (including slow-motion) man diving into swimming pool w Mont Blanc looming overhead. (good shots, recreation, outdoor leisure activities) 01:20:11:11 Chamonix, France Men & women dressed in traditional clothing folk dancing in street. Male & female musicians playing accordions & violins. Procession of musicians & people walking through streets. LA TD Mont Blanc towering over Chamonix. People looking through telescope & pointing. Jacques Balmat & Horace Benedict de Saussure memorial statue. Black miniature poodle dog on street. 01:22:26:26 Mont Blanc? France Italy WS mountain range & valley. VS LS mountains (mountain summits). VS PAN overhead cable car departing station & ascending mountain. VS ascending overhead cable car views of snow-covered mountain peaks & Chamonix Valley? VS HA overhead cable car ski tram full of passengers ascending lush mountain. Descending overhead cable car view passing other cable car (slightly shaky). VS passengers in overhead cable car looking out at views (including silhouetted passenger). (French Alps, mountains) 01:24:55:06 Mont Blanc? France Italy Tourists exiting overhead cable car station & looking at view. VS snow-covered mountain peaks & Chamonix Valley? VS tourists at mountain viewpoint looking at views of snow-covered mountain. (tourists, tourism, sightseeing, viewpoint, outlooks, vistas) 01:26:32:08 Mont Blanc? France Italy VS group of mountain climbers ascending & crossing snow ice-covered mountain, sometimes using ice axes to aid them. (good shots, mountaineering, mountain climbing, alpine climbing, alpinism) 01:29:26:15 Mont Blanc? France Italy VS mountain climbers rescue team practicing crevasse rescues by using ropes to rappel into crevasse & pulling victim out w rope. (good shots, rappelling, crevasses, rescuing, emergency services, search and rescue, drills, exercises) 01:31:39:12 Mont Blanc? France Italy PAN group of mountain climbers sitting at mountain viewpoint singing (good shot, leisure, sing-along, resting). CU soles of mountain climbing boots. VS mountain climbers rescue team practicing emergency drills w group descending mountain & man carrying mock casualty victim on his back. (emergency services, search and rescue, drills, exercises) 01:33:01:25 Mont Blanc? France Italy VS mountain climbers rescue team practicing emergency drills w mock casualty victim being lowered down mountain in rescue chair. Rescue team practicing emergency drill w man carrying mock casualty victim on his back. (emergency services, search and rescue, drills, exercises) 01:34:48:27 Mont Blanc? France Italy VS mountain climbers ascending steep cliff face towards mountain peak. Mountain climbers resting after reaching summit. (great shots, mountaineering, mountain climbing, rock climbing, alpine climbing, alpinism) 01:40:25:00 OUT
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