Across the World in the Interwar Period
A fascinatingly eclectic glimpse of the world between the wars. We watch military parades, coronations, Eastern European harvests, sophisticated Parisian couture, a balancing act high above New York City and the birth pangs of the Spanish Civil War.
00.00.15.00. - MONGOLIA. Sunrise in steppes. Herds of horses. Shepherds have caught a colt. Mongols pray.
00.02.22.07. CHINA. Chinese Far East Rail Road or Chinese Eastern Rail Road (CER). Station Hajlar. Arrival of a train. People on platform. English joint stock company. Boot cleaner. 00.03.24.05. WARSAW. Streets. Boothes. Newspapers. Warsaw African-American. Posters. Policemen. Streets. Pigeons are fed.
00.05.52.00. - ENGLAND. The tube, driver, underground sign 'to street', commuters, boat on Thames. 00.06.30.00. - Covent Garden, celery, grapes, apples, horse and cart, Pickfords van.
00.06.51.12. - Streets of London, Telegraph, BBC headquarters, Trafalgar Square, National Gallery, feeding the pigeons, Admiralty Arch, horse guards parading down horse guards parade. The Mall, Buckingham Palace.
00.07.46.00 - Traffic in the streets, boating on the Serpentine, St James's Park, children playing in Kensington Gardens on merrygo round and swing. 00.08.45.14. - Royal reception, Queen Elizabeth, Queen Mother processes. 00.09.13.22. - Picadilly Circus, adverts, cabaret dancers, Swan Lake, newspaper press, press workers.
00.10.05.00. - Dummies. A show-window of shop. 00.10.25.18. - GERMANY. A lady with a small dog. 00.10.32.04. - Elegeant ady gets out of car. 00.10.38.00. - Women-telegraphists. 00.10.45.14 - Tailoring dresses. 00.11.10.00. - Stocking Manufacture.
Fate N2 2 00.11.24.00. - Free dance with rings, javelin, tennis, a swing, Canadian canoeing, sauna.
00.12.10.13. - Facial, heavy duty face pack!, manicure, tiara, necklace modelled. 00.14.45.00 Hats. Fashion show, hat show. 00.17.38.18. - French parades, planes overhead, cavalry.
00.17.46.24.- fruit market.
00.18.08.06. German beaches, beach games. 00.18.28.12. - Post-office. Sorting office, cyclists go out delivering. Interesting shot sequence. 00.19.13.22 - Bolle milk float in Berlin, housemaid comes out into the street to have milk poured for her. 00.20.11.21. A postman, general Berlin life scenes, photographer, flowers, market, organ grinder, aerials trams. Brass band close-ups. Market, endives, broccili. Great camera angles. 00.24.07.00. - tobacco boothes. 00.24.22.05. - Construction on city streets. Streets. Cars. People. A sparrow on a hat. Sale of newspapers. Street cleaners. Carriers. 00.25.18.00 Ausbahnhoff. Very German lady eats sandwiches. Fishing, hand pedallo. Street cleaning: hoses etc., Man with pipe. 00.27.52.23. - Traffic controller. Streets. Cigarette booth being cycled along. 00.29.00.00. - Berlin nightlife. 00.29.44.04. - hundreds of squeeze box players, in uniform, litle girl dancing, funny conductor. 00.30.42.12. - SHANGHAI. sailing boat (what are these colled), GVs boats and ferries, chinese punting boats, log raft. 00.31.49.19. - New York, end of the war. Jazz, dancing, bands, bongo, open top buses, tap dancer, troop entertainment, CUs audience.
00.33.35.14. - Snowy GERMANY. German soldiers count sheeps. 00.33.55.11. - Mussolini at large farm, cow feed. 00.34.31.20. - Cavalry. Great action shots, silhouettes.
00.34.43.15. - SPAIN. Streets and crowds millling about. CUS children being sent out of the city. Child playing fetch with dog. Children show "No Pasaran". 00.35.31.05. - Polish veterans. A machine gun in flowers, horse and cart. 00.35.44.08. - Chinese hens. Preparation of food. 00.35.54.04. - Alpine landscapes. Vines, river, A man plays on a pipe. Grape picking. Manufacturing wine. Lovely crisp quality. 00.37.50.21. - Polish demonstration. Slogan, 'Reliable democracy. Strong anny.' Assmembled soldiers, cavalrymen charging with flags across open countryside and over a ditch. Contrasts with Blitkrieg, German planes. 00.39.17.00 - little children bow to grand duchess
00.39.45.13. - Vicious race on roller skates - casualties, fights to get to the front, patient on stretcher. 00.40.17.17. - Farewell to Polish ship, the Morska, girlfriend with flowers, CUs Polish sailors, very young. Fond farewell from parents. 00.41.12.15. - Counting money in bank.
00.41.15.21. - SPAIN Spanish flea market, people leaf through odds and ends, cows head.
00.42.14.02. - Streets of Madrid, tram, Steamship Cruise. Games. A gym. bald fat man in swimming costume in pool. Subathing and eating on deck. Children's room 00.43.43.02. - Waiters with salvers.
00.43.51.14. - New York aerial, formation flying from above.
00.44.28.14. - New York - streets. Cars. Across the bridge. Chinatown. Boot cleaner. Amazing views of 1930s NY. Men with sandwich boards advertising strike. Hairdressing saloons. Streets. Pedestrians. Fast-food Cafes. Early, very shiny vending machine, coffee machine, beauty shop. 00.47.50.00. - CU POV of driver in car. Hands at 10 to 2. Gear change. New York at night, flashing adverts in centre. 00.49.02.07. - Miss America
00.49.42.05. - Little black boys boxing. American football - goal, audience reaction, cheers, Velodrome. 00.50.00 Car stunts: on fire, through hoops, crashes.
00.50.21.19. - Balancing tricks on a skyscraper: man holds woman at amazing angles. Dancing competition.
00.51.09.00. - Monkey house. 00.51.13.00. - someone is met in New York , confetti.
00.51.42.00 - Rodeo: bucking bronco, lassooing, cowboy antics. 00.52.00. Ladies with parasols, waitress with drinks in smart bar, cocktail water, swirling glass into roulette wheel. Gambling, doodling.
00.53.13.22. - German steamship Wilhelm Gusstloff starting its cruise. Crowded deck with loungers, tucking into biscuits, lemonade. A gym - fencing, boxing. Ping-
pong. Overweight man and woman on a cycling machine - very German. Weighing. 00.55.36.24. - Drive by car across a seaport city. A boy follows a car and sells a uniform. 00.56.00.00 - German Soldiers all kitted out with kit bags and muskets march past. Musikhalle, audience, orchestra, waltzing to Strauss. 00.57.08.17. - TURKEY. ISTANBUL. Turks in trad. dress. Come into mosque, Sheep. 00.58.11.00 play dominoes overlook the Bosphorus. 00.59.20 FRANCE, procession, general vigorous throwing of flowers, floats. 01.00.13.06. - Children at school learn to write - painful close-ups. 01.00.30.00. - School workshops - filing.
01.00.47.21. - hairdressing salon. 01.01.04.22. - Boys play football in the street. 01.01.13.12. - Holiday camps atmosphere, lots of people in outdoor showers, playing games, in swimming pool. 01.01.33.05. - Hitler Youth parade, put on gas masks. 01.01.55.13. - Polish holiday, procession with wreaths. 01.02.12.23. - Windmill in wheat field. Village. Sheep. Horses. Enormous bulls sheep, hundreds of geese. Miners pray before getting down into mine. 01.02.57.17. - a train. 01.03.07.23. - JAPAN. TOKYO. The Soviet embassy in Japan. Streets of Tokyo. Pedestrians. Street sketches. Rickshaws. Cars. A policeman. 01.04.12.00 Man with hammer and sickle daubed on his back sweeps with broom (punishment?). Newspaper seller jangles bells. 01.10.22.00. - a Girl in the street starts a gramophone. Thoroughfare along the street. Advertising. Street actors. 01.11.36.21.- Winter in mountains. The Alpe. 01.11.50.00. - Kindergarten in GERMANY. Children wash. Girls clean teeth. 01.12.00.00. - CHINA. A street musician. Street. A puppet theater. Children watch and laugh. 01.12.44.14. - A Chinese beauty. 01.12.55.17. - A Chinese Actor prepares for going out. 01.13.10.00. - Performance. 01.13.22.00. - SHANGHAI. Djonki. The ships are on spot-check. Chinese in boats. Load coal. Streets. 01.15.33.13. - Pocket watches in a hand. 01.15.34.07. - Japan attacks China. Refugees. Chinese eat. Magician. Large portrait of Chinese. 01.16.21.00. - Sale of Christmas decorations. 01.16.58.18. - Departure of mountain skiers by train. 01.17.26.00. - Mountains, driving. 01.17.41.00. - Factory manufacturing dolls. 01.18.37.00. - A Girl in a box. 01.19.00.22. - A Child in a baby carriage - a sarcophagus for chemical protection. 01. 19.29. 19.-A traffic controller in the street. 01.19.51.13.-port. 01.19.57.05. - SPAIN. MADRID. People. Streets. Thoroughfares. A traffic controller. Street Cafes. Parks. Boat-trips. Children's playgrounds. A dog bites a fountain. A man reads a newspaper. A cleaner. Girls go out of the shop. A boy sells birdies. Streets. People go along the corridor. 01.26.17.17. - Pour wine into glasses. People discuss in cafe. Play cards. 01.27.20.18. - Night MADRID. Neon. 01.27.36.13. - a Woman dances Spanish dance in cafe. 01.28.35.09. - Fashion show. 01.29.25.01. - Cow - the champion. A man milks the cow. 01.24.43.03. - Steamship Cruise. People, seagulls. A chimney. A steamship. 01.31.30.00. - Mountain skiing. Driving. 01.32.32.05. - An Old woman smokes tobacco-pipe. Women-peasants. Village. Geese. Women thresh grain. Sheep. Comb wool. Spin fabric. A rural feast. 01.35.26.14. - Polish children go to school. At school. A boy reads aloud. 01.35.58.18. - Italian school offine arts. Painting, sculpture.
FULL SYNOPSIS
00.02.22.07. CHINA. Chinese Far East Rail Road or Chinese Eastern Rail Road (CER). Station Hajlar. Arrival of a train. People on platform. English joint stock company. Boot cleaner. 00.03.24.05. WARSAW. Streets. Boothes. Newspapers. Warsaw African-American. Posters. Policemen. Streets. Pigeons are fed.
00.05.52.00. - ENGLAND. The tube, driver, underground sign 'to street', commuters, boat on Thames. 00.06.30.00. - Covent Garden, celery, grapes, apples, horse and cart, Pickfords van.
00.06.51.12. - Streets of London, Telegraph, BBC headquarters, Trafalgar Square, National Gallery, feeding the pigeons, Admiralty Arch, horse guards parading down horse guards parade. The Mall, Buckingham Palace.
00.07.46.00 - Traffic in the streets, boating on the Serpentine, St James's Park, children playing in Kensington Gardens on merrygo round and swing. 00.08.45.14. - Royal reception, Queen Elizabeth, Queen Mother processes. 00.09.13.22. - Picadilly Circus, adverts, cabaret dancers, Swan Lake, newspaper press, press workers.
00.10.05.00. - Dummies. A show-window of shop. 00.10.25.18. - GERMANY. A lady with a small dog. 00.10.32.04. - Elegeant ady gets out of car. 00.10.38.00. - Women-telegraphists. 00.10.45.14 - Tailoring dresses. 00.11.10.00. - Stocking Manufacture.
Fate N2 2 00.11.24.00. - Free dance with rings, javelin, tennis, a swing, Canadian canoeing, sauna.
00.12.10.13. - Facial, heavy duty face pack!, manicure, tiara, necklace modelled. 00.14.45.00 Hats. Fashion show, hat show. 00.17.38.18. - French parades, planes overhead, cavalry.
00.17.46.24.- fruit market.
00.18.08.06. German beaches, beach games. 00.18.28.12. - Post-office. Sorting office, cyclists go out delivering. Interesting shot sequence. 00.19.13.22 - Bolle milk float in Berlin, housemaid comes out into the street to have milk poured for her. 00.20.11.21. A postman, general Berlin life scenes, photographer, flowers, market, organ grinder, aerials trams. Brass band close-ups. Market, endives, broccili. Great camera angles. 00.24.07.00. - tobacco boothes. 00.24.22.05. - Construction on city streets. Streets. Cars. People. A sparrow on a hat. Sale of newspapers. Street cleaners. Carriers. 00.25.18.00 Ausbahnhoff. Very German lady eats sandwiches. Fishing, hand pedallo. Street cleaning: hoses etc., Man with pipe. 00.27.52.23. - Traffic controller. Streets. Cigarette booth being cycled along. 00.29.00.00. - Berlin nightlife. 00.29.44.04. - hundreds of squeeze box players, in uniform, litle girl dancing, funny conductor. 00.30.42.12. - SHANGHAI. sailing boat (what are these colled), GVs boats and ferries, chinese punting boats, log raft. 00.31.49.19. - New York, end of the war. Jazz, dancing, bands, bongo, open top buses, tap dancer, troop entertainment, CUs audience.
00.33.35.14. - Snowy GERMANY. German soldiers count sheeps. 00.33.55.11. - Mussolini at large farm, cow feed. 00.34.31.20. - Cavalry. Great action shots, silhouettes.
00.34.43.15. - SPAIN. Streets and crowds millling about. CUS children being sent out of the city. Child playing fetch with dog. Children show "No Pasaran". 00.35.31.05. - Polish veterans. A machine gun in flowers, horse and cart. 00.35.44.08. - Chinese hens. Preparation of food. 00.35.54.04. - Alpine landscapes. Vines, river, A man plays on a pipe. Grape picking. Manufacturing wine. Lovely crisp quality. 00.37.50.21. - Polish demonstration. Slogan, 'Reliable democracy. Strong anny.' Assmembled soldiers, cavalrymen charging with flags across open countryside and over a ditch. Contrasts with Blitkrieg, German planes. 00.39.17.00 - little children bow to grand duchess
00.39.45.13. - Vicious race on roller skates - casualties, fights to get to the front, patient on stretcher. 00.40.17.17. - Farewell to Polish ship, the Morska, girlfriend with flowers, CUs Polish sailors, very young. Fond farewell from parents. 00.41.12.15. - Counting money in bank.
00.41.15.21. - SPAIN Spanish flea market, people leaf through odds and ends, cows head.
00.42.14.02. - Streets of Madrid, tram, Steamship Cruise. Games. A gym. bald fat man in swimming costume in pool. Subathing and eating on deck. Children's room 00.43.43.02. - Waiters with salvers.
00.43.51.14. - New York aerial, formation flying from above.
00.44.28.14. - New York - streets. Cars. Across the bridge. Chinatown. Boot cleaner. Amazing views of 1930s NY. Men with sandwich boards advertising strike. Hairdressing saloons. Streets. Pedestrians. Fast-food Cafes. Early, very shiny vending machine, coffee machine, beauty shop. 00.47.50.00. - CU POV of driver in car. Hands at 10 to 2. Gear change. New York at night, flashing adverts in centre. 00.49.02.07. - Miss America
00.49.42.05. - Little black boys boxing. American football - goal, audience reaction, cheers, Velodrome. 00.50.00 Car stunts: on fire, through hoops, crashes.
00.50.21.19. - Balancing tricks on a skyscraper: man holds woman at amazing angles. Dancing competition.
00.51.09.00. - Monkey house. 00.51.13.00. - someone is met in New York , confetti.
00.51.42.00 - Rodeo: bucking bronco, lassooing, cowboy antics. 00.52.00. Ladies with parasols, waitress with drinks in smart bar, cocktail water, swirling glass into roulette wheel. Gambling, doodling.
00.53.13.22. - German steamship Wilhelm Gusstloff starting its cruise. Crowded deck with loungers, tucking into biscuits, lemonade. A gym - fencing, boxing. Ping-
pong. Overweight man and woman on a cycling machine - very German. Weighing. 00.55.36.24. - Drive by car across a seaport city. A boy follows a car and sells a uniform. 00.56.00.00 - German Soldiers all kitted out with kit bags and muskets march past. Musikhalle, audience, orchestra, waltzing to Strauss. 00.57.08.17. - TURKEY. ISTANBUL. Turks in trad. dress. Come into mosque, Sheep. 00.58.11.00 play dominoes overlook the Bosphorus. 00.59.20 FRANCE, procession, general vigorous throwing of flowers, floats. 01.00.13.06. - Children at school learn to write - painful close-ups. 01.00.30.00. - School workshops - filing.
01.00.47.21. - hairdressing salon. 01.01.04.22. - Boys play football in the street. 01.01.13.12. - Holiday camps atmosphere, lots of people in outdoor showers, playing games, in swimming pool. 01.01.33.05. - Hitler Youth parade, put on gas masks. 01.01.55.13. - Polish holiday, procession with wreaths. 01.02.12.23. - Windmill in wheat field. Village. Sheep. Horses. Enormous bulls sheep, hundreds of geese. Miners pray before getting down into mine. 01.02.57.17. - a train. 01.03.07.23. - JAPAN. TOKYO. The Soviet embassy in Japan. Streets of Tokyo. Pedestrians. Street sketches. Rickshaws. Cars. A policeman. 01.04.12.00 Man with hammer and sickle daubed on his back sweeps with broom (punishment?). Newspaper seller jangles bells. 01.10.22.00. - a Girl in the street starts a gramophone. Thoroughfare along the street. Advertising. Street actors. 01.11.36.21.- Winter in mountains. The Alpe. 01.11.50.00. - Kindergarten in GERMANY. Children wash. Girls clean teeth. 01.12.00.00. - CHINA. A street musician. Street. A puppet theater. Children watch and laugh. 01.12.44.14. - A Chinese beauty. 01.12.55.17. - A Chinese Actor prepares for going out. 01.13.10.00. - Performance. 01.13.22.00. - SHANGHAI. Djonki. The ships are on spot-check. Chinese in boats. Load coal. Streets. 01.15.33.13. - Pocket watches in a hand. 01.15.34.07. - Japan attacks China. Refugees. Chinese eat. Magician. Large portrait of Chinese. 01.16.21.00. - Sale of Christmas decorations. 01.16.58.18. - Departure of mountain skiers by train. 01.17.26.00. - Mountains, driving. 01.17.41.00. - Factory manufacturing dolls. 01.18.37.00. - A Girl in a box. 01.19.00.22. - A Child in a baby carriage - a sarcophagus for chemical protection. 01. 19.29. 19.-A traffic controller in the street. 01.19.51.13.-port. 01.19.57.05. - SPAIN. MADRID. People. Streets. Thoroughfares. A traffic controller. Street Cafes. Parks. Boat-trips. Children's playgrounds. A dog bites a fountain. A man reads a newspaper. A cleaner. Girls go out of the shop. A boy sells birdies. Streets. People go along the corridor. 01.26.17.17. - Pour wine into glasses. People discuss in cafe. Play cards. 01.27.20.18. - Night MADRID. Neon. 01.27.36.13. - a Woman dances Spanish dance in cafe. 01.28.35.09. - Fashion show. 01.29.25.01. - Cow - the champion. A man milks the cow. 01.24.43.03. - Steamship Cruise. People, seagulls. A chimney. A steamship. 01.31.30.00. - Mountain skiing. Driving. 01.32.32.05. - An Old woman smokes tobacco-pipe. Women-peasants. Village. Geese. Women thresh grain. Sheep. Comb wool. Spin fabric. A rural feast. 01.35.26.14. - Polish children go to school. At school. A boy reads aloud. 01.35.58.18. - Italian school offine arts. Painting, sculpture.