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Amateur film by an American millionaire of his family's trip to Europe in 1932.
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"We sail on the SS Paris June 29, 1932." Leaving Boston? Scenes on deck. Carolyn Sickle's children. "Plymouth Harbour" general scenes of Paris. Versailles. Cathedral at Chartres. Tours. Various Chateaux. St Jean de Luz. Enid Hewitt and Peggy Elliot with the Thaws. Beach scenes. Various scenes of friends. "We have lunch with Peggy Elliot back in the Pyranees." [sic. Pyrenees] End of Part I. Reel two soon follows."
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"Part two, finds us in Biarritz." Scenes on the seafront and on the beach. Madrid. General street and tourist scenes. "The girls have their hair and nails done." "On the way to Toledo we have a puncture." Street scenes of Toledo? Return to Biarritz for motor trip to Carcassonne. "Roman ruins at Nimes." Roman aqueduct. "The bridge at Avignon." "And so ends Part Two. Reel three soon follows."
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"Part three. Two views from our hotel window in Cannes." "Nice." Between Cannes and Genoa, with the Prochets at Cap d'Ail. A view of Monte Carlo from their villa. Genoa. Cathedral in Milan. Como. Bellagio. Venice. Through the Dolomites to Innsbruck and Munich. Cortina. Innsbruck. Oberammergau. Munich. Chiemsee. "End of Part three. One moment please for Reel Four."
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"Part four find us in Salzburg" Lakes in the mountains to the east of Salzburg. Puncture at the Swiss-Austrian border. St Moritz. Mari suns her legs. The Bernia Pass. Towards Interlaken. The Furka Pass. The Rhone Glacier. Accident with Swiss Army truck. Lake Geneva. "Back in Biarritz after the motor tour, we find the children in great shape; Coppie having completely recovered." Close-ups of the kids on the beach. "Nanie had come down from Ireland to be with the children while we were away on the motor trip." Family/beach scenes. "We leave the family in Biarritz, while Peggy and I go to England and Scotland." "We visit the Harrington Mann's lovely old farm about fifty miles from London." "At Lennoxlove, Scotland with the Stehlis." "The Ben Thaws." Rabbit hunt. "I return home on the Bremen. Julie Bache, Kitty and Gilbert Miller, and the Lunts." "Luella Heckscher." "The end"
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16mm