Glories of the Alps
odd: label: General
content: Local Numbers: HSFA 1991.20.31
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Soule, Thayer
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content: Thayer Soule Travel Lecture Films collection
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Film reels (89 minutes, color silent; 3,231 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1958
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Film reels
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Edited film documents various aspects of life in the Alps in Switzerland, France, and Italy. Shown are scenes of the Jet D'ou in Geneva, making crepes in France, and camping in the Dolomites in Italy. Included are scenes of markets, casinos, street scenes, metal and woodwork, rockclimbing and helicopter rescue, a fife and drum parade, contemporary and historical architecture, lakes, rural areas, churches, castles, ski lifts, camping, wrestling contests, games of curling, hanggliding, and the Falzareco monument.

Supplementary materials: publicity materials, still photographs, sound recording of lecture

Legacy keywords: Architecture Jet d'Ou Switzerland ; Industry markets Europe ; Industry woodwork Europe ; Industry metalwork Europe ; Industry cooking restaurants Europe ; Recreation camping Europe ; Recreation gambling casinos Europe ; Recreation performers juggling Europe ; Recreation sports curling Europe ; Recreation sports wrestling Europe ; Recreation sports skiing Europe ; Recreation sports hanggliding Europe ; Travel Europe ; animals cows horses rams Europe ; architecture churches bunkers Europe ; Marketplaces ; Historic sites ; Mountains g Europe ; Parades