Home Movie: Zellerbach Collection: 012669 (silent)

Description: James D. Zellerbach, U.S. Ambassador to Italy 1957-60, and family take the ocean liner Queen Mary to Europe and tour Italy in the late 1940s.

Includes silent newsreel footage from INCOM, the Italian newsreel, featuring Zellerbach.

titles:
We Leave New York Aboard the Queen Mary, June 24, 1948
Arriving Cherbourg June 29, 1948.
A Trip to the Rigi
Over the Alps to Rome Arriving July 6, 1948
Excursion to Formia Itri
Official Trip to Sicily August 6-8, 1948 Mt. Aetna Taormina
To Siena for the Palio, August 14-17, 1948 Radicofani S. Gimignano
The Palio
A Trip to the North, August 28-September 6, 1948, Pisa
Venice and the Annual Regatta
Catholic Action Youth Jubilee, Pizza San Pietro, September 12, 1948
To the South, September 13-19, Bari Fair
Alberobello with its Eleventh Century Houses
Castel del Monte, Twelfth Century Hunting Lodge of Frederick II
Naples
Capri
Pompei
Amalfi
Week End in the Hill Towns, Orvieto

Label on can states:
"Mission to Italy, Part I 1948-9"

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Subjects: 1940s, Vacations, Tourism, Parades and processions, Boats and boating, Architecture, Social classes, Religion, Politics and government

Tags: image extends between perforations; intertitles; ocean liners; ships; piers; crowds; titles; microphones; politics; Cunard White Star Line; steamship departing New York Harbor; crowds on pier; crowds on docks at ship send-off; Queen Mary passenger ship; ships; filmed aboard a ship; gangways; tramways; ports; Statue of Liberty; on-deck; windy; women hold on to their hats; mountain railways; outdoor cafes; sunglasses; filmed from airplane window; mountains; snowy peaks; flying over the Alps; airports; propeller planes; tarmacs; domes; ruins; sights of Rome; Military Air Attache airplane; private jets; posing for camera; motorcycles; towers; walking arm in arm; Palio di Siena; horses; spectators; horseback riding; flag waving; suits of armor; flag tossing; procession; drummers; oxen pulling carts; horse racing; under-exposed; camera registration issues; plazas; piazzas; gondolas; gondoliers; rowing; boat races; canals; white pants; Leaning Tower of Pisa; Piazza San Marco; feeding pigeons; pigeons of Saint Mark's Square; Lion of Venice; filmed from boat; Venice gondolas; regattas; gondola race; boat race; enormous crowds; throne; popes; Pope Pius XII; Catholic Action Youth Jubilee; Piazza San Pietro; Bari Fair; men posing in front of Naval Attaché airplane; "USA ERP" building; 11th Century houses; Trullo Sovrano; boat in dark cave; laundry; clotheslines; carrying on head; sunglasses; Blue Grotto; panoramic views; rocky coastlines; scenic beauty; terraced land; mosaics; cathedrals; Europe; buildings

Film Sponsor:

Creator: James David Zellerbach

Credits:

Distributor:

Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Zellerbach Family Collection PC-0167, Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection

Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive

Production Date: 1948-06-24 through 1949

Release Date:

Geographical Location: Italy; USA; New York; New York, New York; France; Cherbourg, France; Switzerland; Vitznau, Switzerland; Rome, Italy; Formia, Italy; Sicily, Italy; Pisa, Italy; Venice, Italy; Alberobello, Italy; Naples, Italy; Pompeii, Italy; Amalfi, Italy

Genre/Form: home movie, amateur

Language: eng

Rights:

Film Format: 16mm film

Element: reversal, print, positive

Color: color, b&w

Color Process: Kodachrome

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: circle circle circle, square triangle

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 887