Motion Picture Film
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Meiere, M. Hildreth, d. 1961
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content: Hildreth Meière papers
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content: Hildreth Meière papers / Series 5: Travel Records
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1933-1958
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.meiemari, Subseries 5.3
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Film reels have been arranged by trip where possible, except for the countries on the "Grand Tour," which are arranged by country. Where multiple European countries are found on a single reel, they are filed under Europe.
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: All of the motion picture film has been digitized for research access.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Series contains 81 motion picture films shot by Hildreth Meiere while traveling between 1933 and 1958. Many of the same trips are represented in the footage as are shown in the slides in the collection, including the 1946 trip to Mexico and Guatemala, the 1947 trip to South America (Columbia, Ecuador, Peru), the 1949-1950 trip to Europe (France, Switzerland, Austria, Holland, Belgium, and Italy), the 1951 trip to Scandinavia (Finland, Norway, Sweden), the 1952-1953 "Grand Tour" (Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Thailand, Ceylon, India, Rhodesia, Congo, South Africa, Italy, England, Scotland, Ireland, and France), the 1954 "Holy Land" trip (Egypt, Greece, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey), and the 1958 trip to Belgium. 

Unique to this series is documentation of earlier trips to Turkey (1933), Germany (1934), Europe (1936, Germany, Poland, Russia), and two shipboard films made on the S.S. America (1940) and on an Odyssey cruise (1938), which retraced the steps of Homer's Odyssey.