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Clip #: AD-17
Length: 23:48
Year: 1926
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1920s
Description:
Entertaining travelogue from 1926 promoting The French Line, a trans-Atlantic cruise line. This is
interspersed with narrative that focuses on a young middle-class couple who takes a trip on the ocean liner.
Extensive footage of passengers enjoying leisure time and activities on the sun...
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Clip #: AD-18
Length: 11:42
Year: 1926
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1920s
Description:
Entertaining travelogue from 1926 promoting The French Line, a trans-Atlantic cruise line. This is
interspersed with narrative that focuses on a young middle-class couple who takes a trip on the ocean liner
and disembarks at Paris. Footage of a biplane being catapulted off the deck of an...
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Clip #: AD-19
Length: 30:51
Year: 1926
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1920s
Description:
Entertaining travelogue from 1926 promoting The French Line, a trans-Atlantic cruise line. This is interspersed
with narrative that focuses on a young middle-class couple who takes a trip on the ocean liner and disembarks
at Paris. Excellent footage of romantic couples sightseeing around...
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Clip #: AD-20
Length: 10:35
Year: 1938
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1930s
Description:
Travelogue from 1938 of towns and historic sites along the French Normandy coast. Includes footage of castles
and churches, village street scene, and small town market places. Footage of the resort towns of Trouville
and Deauville with people relaxing on the beach and at the racetrack. ...
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Clip #: TFA-156C
Length: 10:47
Year: 1938
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1930s
Description:
Travelogue from 1938 of towns and historic sites along the French Normandy coast. Extensive footage of
the port town of Le Havre (which would be heavily bombed during WWII) with ocean liners arriving to the port,
vistas of the city, and 1930s old European street scenes. Resort towns such as...
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Clip #: AD-21-1
Length: 10:59
Year: 1938
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1930s
Description:
01:00:12:17
Title card: “Andre de La Varre presents: ‘A Journey to Normandy.’
Photography, script, narration by Andre de La Varre; Collaborator, Paul Devlin;
Music Arranged & Played by Lew White; Recording by HE Reeves;
Released by Compagnie Generale Transatlantique - French Line.
VS ...
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Clip #: AD-21-2
Length: 11:03
Year: 1938
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1930s
Description:
Travelogue from 1938 of towns and historic sites along the French Normandy coast. Cathedrals and religious
ceremonies in towns along the River Seine, such as Fecamp, Rouen, Les Andelys, and Lisieux.
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Clip #: AD-22
Length: 29:42
Year: 1937
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1930s
Description:
Documentary from 1937 filmed in the small Indonesian West Java town of Malabar. Follows the entire process
of tea manufacturing from being grown and harvested in the fields, ground and processed in the factory,
and eventually shipped out to countries around the world. Excellent footage of...
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Clip #: AD-23-1
Length: 10:36
Year: 1936
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1930s
Description:
A tour of Tunis, Algiers and Rabat in the 1930s
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Clip #: AD-23-2
Length: 9:49
Year: 1936
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1930s
Description:
An elaborate funeral ceremony in Bali in the 1930s
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