Travel Footage: Indonesia to Europe
odd: label: General
content: Local Numbers: HSFA 2004.22.5
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Link, Walter, 1902-1982
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content: Walter Link travel films
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (16 minutes, black-and-white silent; 400 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1935
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Film reels
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Film footage moderately edited with added intertitles, shot in Ceylon, Egypt, Italy and Germany by oil explorer and geologist Walter Link during his personal vacation, records various tourist destinations. Landmarks include: the beach and harbor at Colombo, Sri Lanka (Ceylon); the Sphinx, pyramids, Mosque of Mohamed Ali and Egyptian Museum in and around Cairo, Egypt; Villa San Michele in Capri, Italy; St. Peter's, the Coliseum and Forum in Rome, Italy; the Arno and Piazza della Signoria in Florence, Italy; the Englischer Garten, Hofgarten, and war memorials in Munich, Germany; Walchensee, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, and a Tyrol village in the Bavarian Alps, Germany; the Fuggerei in Augsburg, Germany; and street scenes in Nuremberg, Germany. Footage consists mainly of sights and structures and shows little interaction with local inhabitants.