Bernese Oberland Switzerland (1950s)

[Music] spe [Music] the radiant Sunshine of the high Alps makes a winter Fairy Land future skiing Champions train under the dazzling flanks of the yunga while their Elders enjoy a resit from the bleakness of winter in the towns [Music] speed and Grace joy and help are to be found on the white slopes at hanen MOS the skiing District of the two winter sports resorts of link and adelon [Music] nearad we hear a noise of cheerful human voices and of horses hoofs stamping on the frozen snow a sledging party is on its way [Music] [Music] the Kleiner shidik a winter sports center high up on the Yung draws young and old like a magnet to its Sunny Heights from venan vengan Alp and grindel Val [Music] [Music] Easter time on the vasen nearad [Music] spring has come between the last patches of snow a carpet of flowers lies spread under the skier's feet [Music] crocuses and gin are in bloom where the snow lay and at s and m whole fields of snow drops Herald the spring [Music] oh [Music] in the valley of L brunin the roof needs mending when its heavy burden of winter snow has melted the farmer begins to set his house in order [Music] f [Music] the procession of cows to the Alpine pastures from the Simon and dimik valleys all over the Overland the cows spend the summer on the heights the spicy grass has done much to improve the famous simonal breed and to give Swiss milk and cheese its Rich quality [Music] the dairymen settle in for the summer high above the villages on towering Cliffs and rock slides they carry on their work of cattle herding butter and cheese making till a cold sets in or the first snowfall sends man and Beast Down to the valley again [Music] summer has come now is the time for cooling streams and Shady Woods bathing water skiing and Tennis are only a few of the Delights of an Alpine summer but riding in the alpes has a charm all its own a ride in the Bernie overand can stand comparison with one in the Grand Canyon [Music] that holiday feeling is in the air these are the last days of school When the Children help their parents to bring in the scented Alpine grass this paradise of flowers is near Muran [Music] for [Music] not far from their Holiday Hotel these children are playing beside a brook in the Hasley Valley such days leave Unforgettable memories for later years [Music] in Muran itself the sunbath terce of the bernes Overland where the air rings with the flashing of hurrying Brooks holidays are time for rest or [Music] exercise there is a hint of autumn in the air These Quiet Mountain Lakes the oin and the blow near cander on the lchb simplon line and the lakes of Brien for tun and the Romantic Bay of shitz invite dreams of the glories of Summer and the sights and sents of Aline [Music] days the lakes of tun and Brien are connected by a canal now between the two lies interen the classic tourist center of the bernes Overland famous all over the world for its view of the Yung fra its Casino its flower clock and its excursions to harda the shinig plate and the briena roor [Music] h [Music] [Music] [Music] spe [Music] [Music] in Autumn the farmers come down from their Mountain Holdings to the annual Fair they sell a car lay in tools clothing and Crockery for the winter and duly fortified in the approved fashion set out on their Hood Way [Music] for [Music] all [Music] [Music] e [Music] Autumn the hunting season the shamwa flees from its Hunters along dizzy ridges [Music] [Music] in the bernes Overland there are ski lifts everywhere one of them soes high above the lake of tun from batan bar to the Neah horn another from the glacier Village of gindel Val to the Fier the starting point for the bakal lake and the foul horn the rocky ridges are draped in the rosy Blooms of the Alpine rhodendron [Music] [Music] for [Music] our Sportsman has shot nothing today but there are compensations with his fellow Sportsman he marches along singing the Praises of his bernes Overland in winter spring summer and Autumn [Music] you [Music]