HOME MOVIES: 1930S

Genre: home movie

Year Published: 1920s

Format: 16mm

Description: This silent black-and-white home movie chronicles the travels of an unknown American family through Budapest, Hungary and Potsdam, Germany. The film likely dates to the late 1920s or early 1930s based on the fashion featured in the film. While the family is unknown, it appears this film is one of many travelogs made by this couple as they appear in other travelog films through Europe. The other films in this series, shot by the same family, can be seen at: • 1930s HOME MOVIES WOODCLIFF, NEW JE... (XD65474) • 1930s HOME MOVIES TRIP TO LAKE COMO,... (XD65454) • 1930S B&W HOME MOVIE TRIP TO EUROPE... (XD65424) • 1930S B&W HOME MOVIE TRIP TO FRANCE... (XD65414) • 1930S HOME MOVIES TRIP TO BUDAPEST,... (XD65434) • 1930s HOME MOVIE TRIP TO ROCK OF GI... (XD65404) • 1930s HOME MOVIE TRIP TO MEDITERRANE... (XD65504) Street scene around Budapest; bronze statues and sculptures in public parks and squares (0:08). Camera pans facade of Royal Curia of Hungary building (Supreme Court of Kingdom of Hungary from 1723 - 1949) (0:23). Crowd admires equestrian statue of Count Gyula Andrássy (former Hungarian Prime Minister) at Budapest Parliament building (0:29). View of side entrance of Parliament Building (0:39). Perhaps Margaret Bridge stretches across over the Danube from Budapest to Margaret Island (0:56). Palace of Justice (1:05). Lion statues in front of Parliament Building (1:10). Views of Hungarian Parliament building from window of moving vehicle as it drives as long banks of Danube (1:13). Margitsziget Outdoor Theater (1:30). Margaret (Margit) Island Water Tower (1:47). Wait staff walk among rows of outdoor cafe tables with white tablecloths; Patrons fill some of the tables but space is mostly empty (1:56). Views of Pest, St. Stephen’s Basilica pears over city skyline, Széchenyi Chain Bridge (2:25). Two Hungarian soldiers stand guard at Fisherman’s Bastion, Buda Castle; Camera then pans view from castle of Buda and Pest (2:32). Woman, perhaps wife of filmmaker, walks toward camera on grounds of castle wearing typical women’s fashion of late 1920s (3:13). Views from fast moving trolly: Outdoor market in central square, locals sitting on benches, reading newspapers on banks of Danube, market stalls selling goods (3:29). Perhaps Széchenyi Thermal Bath (3:46). View of perhaps Potsdam rooftops and tree tops (4:01). Close-up architectural details of buildings and homes farther out of the city (4:23). Aerial-view from high point lookout over the city (4:51). Neues Palais (New Palace), largest 18th-century structure in Potsdam’s Sanssouci Park built by Prussian King Friedrich II in 1769 (5:10). New Palace from the west side (5:22). Pristine palace gardens of Sanssouci Park (5:40). More details of palace facade; Woman from earlier in film walks through gardens before film ends (6:12).

Complete Record: This silent black-and-white home movie chronicles the travels of an unknown American family through Budapest, Hungary and Potsdam, Germany. The film likely dates to the late 1920s or early 1930s based on the fashion featured in the film. While the family is unknown, it appears this film is one of many travelogs made by this couple as they appear in other travelog films through Europe. The other films in this series, shot by the same family, can be seen at: • 1930s HOME MOVIES WOODCLIFF, NEW JE... (XD65474) • 1930s HOME MOVIES TRIP TO LAKE COMO,... (XD65454) • 1930S B&W HOME MOVIE TRIP TO EUROPE... (XD65424) • 1930S B&W HOME MOVIE TRIP TO FRANCE... (XD65414) • 1930S HOME MOVIES TRIP TO BUDAPEST,... (XD65434) • 1930s HOME MOVIE TRIP TO ROCK OF GI... (XD65404) • 1930s HOME MOVIE TRIP TO MEDITERRANE... (XD65504) Street scene around Budapest; bronze statues and sculptures in public parks and squares (0:08). Camera pans facade of Royal Curia of Hungary building (Supreme Court of Kingdom of Hungary from 1723 - 1949) (0:23). Crowd admires equestrian statue of Count Gyula Andrássy (former Hungarian Prime Minister) at Budapest Parliament building (0:29). View of side entrance of Parliament Building (0:39). Perhaps Margaret Bridge stretches across over the Danube from Budapest to Margaret Island (0:56). Palace of Justice (1:05). Lion statues in front of Parliament Building (1:10). Views of Hungarian Parliament building from window of moving vehicle as it drives as long banks of Danube (1:13). Margitsziget Outdoor Theater (1:30). Margaret (Margit) Island Water Tower (1:47). Wait staff walk among rows of outdoor cafe tables with white tablecloths; Patrons fill some of the tables but space is mostly empty (1:56). Views of Pest, St. Stephen’s Basilica pears over city skyline, Széchenyi Chain Bridge (2:25). Two Hungarian soldiers stand guard at Fisherman’s Bastion, Buda Castle; Camera then pans view from castle of Buda and Pest (2:32). Woman, perhaps wife of filmmaker, walks toward camera on grounds of castle wearing typical women’s fashion of late 1920s (3:13). Views from fast moving trolly: Outdoor market in central square, locals sitting on benches, reading newspapers on banks of Danube, market stalls selling goods (3:29). Perhaps Széchenyi Thermal Bath (3:46). View of perhaps Potsdam rooftops and tree tops (4:01). Close-up architectural details of buildings and homes farther out of the city (4:23). Aerial-view from high point lookout over the city (4:51). Neues Palais (New Palace), largest 18th-century structure in Potsdam’s Sanssouci Park built by Prussian King Friedrich II in 1769 (5:10). New Palace from the west side (5:22). Pristine palace gardens of Sanssouci Park (5:40). More details of palace facade; Woman from earlier in film walks through gardens before film ends (6:12).