Little Journey to England and France July 7th to August 16th

Genre: home movie

Year Published: 1940s

Description: Little Journey to England and France (silent) An amateur home movie shot between July 7th and August 16th (likely late 1940s, given glimpses of King George VI's royal insignia still on display), this silent personal travelogue follows its unnamed filmmaker through the streets of England — past tree-lined avenues of Georgian architecture, a historic Dickens-related bookshop, and mounted ceremonial guards in red coats — and then on into France, capturing the postwar grandeur of two countries still deeply marked by their histories, seen through an American or Canadian tourist's affectionate, unhurried lens.

Complete Record: Little Journey to England and France (silent) An amateur home movie shot between July 7th and August 16th (likely late 1940s, given glimpses of King George VI's royal insignia still on display), this silent personal travelogue follows its unnamed filmmaker through the streets of England — past tree-lined avenues of Georgian architecture, a historic Dickens-related bookshop, and mounted ceremonial guards in red coats — and then on into France, capturing the postwar grandeur of two countries still deeply marked by their histories, seen through an American or Canadian tourist's affectionate, unhurried lens.