[Miscellaneous 1960’s reels]
Published: 196u
Number of pages: 403
Subjects: Cruise lines; Vacations; Hotels, motels; Automobiles in motion pictures; Travel in motion pictures; Cities and towns; Dwellings; Civilization; Social life and customs; Description and travel
Work titles: Carry Wagner home movies (Motion picture [196-?]) 16 mm
Description: Home movies recorded by Carry Wagner. Filmed during a trip to Spain and Morocco. Reel 1: Barcelona; market scene; monk in square; battleship; helicopter; coastal views from ship. Reel 2: Las Palmas 1963; Bernad, England; children playing; “Parador Municipal” sign; palm trees; women in traditional costume. Reel 3: Rabat 1964; small boys; “taxi Tangier”; snake charmer; man with robe looking at ocean liner; man with baby; man carrying woman. Reel 4: Lisbon 1966; dining room of restaurant; beach; house of Lord Byron. Reel 5: Portugal 1966; mountain view; fort; Spanish sign; wharf scene; men repairing nets. Reel 6: England 1966; Bentley; St. Clement’s cottage; Pines lake; family scene. Reel 7: 1968; boat with “Rotterdam”; woman with blonde boy; small children.
Notes: Harvard Film Archive reversal positive, HFA item no. 9773. From The Carry Wagner Collection.

Title taken from labeling on the can.

Date is a production date, this film was never distributed.

Descriptive information and timing regarding scene locations taken from a video log of a vhs tape produced from the original 16 mm film.

Carry Wagner probably never thought of herself as a filmmaker. The owner of an antique store in Greenwich Village, she traveled on a regular basis in order to purchase jewelery and other items for her business in New York City. She recorded these trips on 16 mm color film, leaving behind a remarkable record of the world that she visited in the years following World War II. The daughter of Jewish emigres from Europe, she grew up on the lower East side, and as a young woman became involved in the women's suffragette movement and the trade union struggles that were taking place in NYC at the time. In the forties and fifties she began traveling extensively. The seventy reels of color film in this collection range from footage shot in apartheid South Africa, to scenes of bombed out German cities in the immediate aftermath of World War II. Highlights include extensive footage of travel via cruise ship, before air travel became commonplace, as well as footage of General Dwight D. Eisenhower in allied occupied Germany after the war.

Director, Carry Wagner; producer, Carry Wagner.