Home Movie: Charles D. Mitchell Collection: 004956 (silent)

Description: Content advisory: Antisemitic language; antisemitism; Nazi personnel, assembly activity, and iconography.

The natural beauty of the Bavarian region of Germany contrasts with the dark shadow of Third Reich activity in the late 1930s expressed in this reel through Nazi personnel assembly activity in the form of parades and folk life festival activities taking place in the city of Nuremberg, likely peripheral to a Nuremberg Rally. Otherwise the American tourists who created this reel focus on street scenes and everyday life before World War II: youths on the way to school and engaged in daily chores; children and adults in traditional German dress, bicycles and produce markets, and rural landscapes and Medieval architecture. Shown at the end is a sign for the town of Farchant that includes the message "Juden Unerwunscht" or "Jews Unwelcome."

can notes:
"Baden Baden Rhine #3 '28" [Year is incorrect: reel exposed between 1936 and 1939, likely 1937]

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Subjects: 1930s, Cities, Rural life, Tourism, World War II, White supremacy, Racism

Tags: foggy mountain ridges and valleys; Rhine valley; Bavaria; cemeteries; graveyards; farmers pulling carts; half-timbered houses; youth; train bridges; ox-driven carts; hay wagons; street scenes; storefronts; swastikas; Nazi banners; Nazi party; Nazi Germany; live music in streets; street performers; children dancing; folk dancing; circle dances; square dances; Nazi flags; bird nests; stork in nest on top of building; marching bands; antisemitism; clock towers; Nazi soldiers marching in street; brownshirts; athletic young men; Nuremburg Rally; Nazi salutes; outdoor markets; farmer's market; produce market; maypole with swastikas; Willibaldsburg Castle; Frauenkirche; onion domes; Baroque architecture; German fascism; Juden Unerwunscht sign; Third Reich; medieval architecture; clockmaker signs; clockworks;

Film Sponsor:

Creator: Charles D. Mitchell

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Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Charles D. Mitchell Collection PC-0488, Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection

Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive

Production Date: circa 1938

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Geographical Location: Germany; Baden-Baden, Germany; Rhine River; Nuremberg, Germany; Farchant, Germany; Bavaria, Germany; Eichstätt, Germany

Genre/Form: home movie

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Film Format: 16mm film

Element: reversal

Color: color

Color Process: Kodachrome

Sound or Silent: silent

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Edge Code: triangle

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 375