[Percy B. Eckhart Travel Footage: North Cape Cruise]
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Eckhart, Percy B. (Percy Bernard), 1877-1969
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content: Percy B. Eckhart films
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content: Percy B. Eckhart films / Series 1: Travel Footage
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1933
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Film footage of a cruise visiting Scandinavia and Northern Europe. Activities depicted include cruise ship life; landscapes and harbors; monumental buildings and ruins, including interior shots; and folk reenactments, dances, and traditional dress. Street scenes provide glimpses of local people's daily activities not performed for tourists, including harvesting fish and farmers' markets. Bulleted information is transcribed from film reels and/or cans. Filming locations include: Iceland; Norway (Romsdalshorn, Lynsenset, Lapps, Trondheim, Åndalsnes, Merok, Stolkjarres, Svartisen, Oye, Stalheim, Bergen, Oslo, Visby); Finland (Helsingfors/Helsinki); Russia (Leningrad); Sweden (Stockholm); Denmark (Copenhagen); Germany (Berlin); Czech Republic (Prague, Frenstadt); and Austria (Salzburg).