Home Movie: Charles D. Mitchell Collection: 004962 (silent)

Description: Content advisory: Nazi personnel and iconography.

The natural beauty of the Rhine region of Germany contrasts with the dark shadow of Third Reich activity in the late 1930s, expressed in flags, banners, and marching groups of Hitler Youth. Otherwise these American tourists focused on boat travel down the Rhine with castles, a working waterway, and everyday life before World War II with stops in Cologne, Bonn, and Leipzig showing rural and small-town landscapes and Medieval architecture.

can notes:
"2 Cologne, Germany, Rhine River 1937"

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

Tags: street scenes; market squares; outdoor markets; Dortmund; Cathedral; produce; flower stands; horse-drawn carts; flower markets; motorcycles; storefronts; bicycles; wicker cargo baskets; hotels; guesthouses; members of Hitler Youth marching in streets; swastikas; Nazi flags; Nazi Party; Nazi Germany; gates; arches; boat tours; castles; castle ruins; filmed from boat going down Rhine River; Rhine cruises; river cruises; cargo vessels; working waterway; coal; vineyards; viticulture; terraced agriculture; boats; barges; castles viewed from river; Pfalzgrafenstein Castle; the Pfalz; sunsets; streetcars; Wiesbaden; Kurhaus Wiesbaden; spa; baths; public baths; pushcarts; street bedecked with Nazi banners; German fascism; Third Reich; antisemitism; Heidelberg tourist brochure photographed; outdoor cafes; silver coffee service; feeding fish in stream; chauffeurs; Koblenzer Hof hotel; Köln-Düsseldorfer sign; University of Bonn; relaxed outdoor dining; lederhosen; male gaze on young man; man wears knife in holster; ruined castles; personal drivers; architecture; sightseeing;

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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; Rhine River; Heidelberg, Germany; Leipzig, Germany; Bonn, Germany; Cologne, 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): 340