[Archie Stewart--home movies] Reel 157

Date1967

Viewing NotesCan notes and NHF cataloguer's notes: Reel 157: Rotary trip to Scandinavia 11 - 29 May 1967. [Transferred at wrong frame rate; too slow]. Urban scenes. People get on bus. Look at waterfall. Bus. Boat. Snow. People. Balholm boat. Flam. Myrdal. Oslo. Vigeland Sculpture Park at the Vigeland Museum in Oslo, Norway. Copenhagen; little mermaid on rock. Tivoli Gardens at night. Airplane, out window. (Addendum 7/11/95) More details about the Scandinavian footage via Imperial War Museum/Kay: 'After the changing of the Royal Guard outside the Palace in Stockholm, your cameraman visits the sculpture park of Carl Milles at MillesgÂrden on the island of Lidingˆ, which faces Stockholm's ferry terminal.'] Mediterranean views. Couples look at camera. Paris airport. Screening notes: People walking in rain through street market vendors. Neon sign: Storebrand for Sikkerhets Skyld. Ferry boats at dock. VS of foggy harbor, boats. Street scene, stores. Loading tour bus. WS dramatic waterfall, pan from people at overlook to view. Snow covered mountains. Town in valley. Sin Norheimsund. Bus beside harbor, fishing and ferry boats. Houses on hillside above water. Hotel. Milk jugs being offloaded from boat. Mountain views, picnic area. Waterfalls. WS bus, MCU on sign: Norwegian Fjord Line. CU on license plate Rutevogn. Loading onto ferry boat Balholm, VS of tour group, mountains in BG. Moving shots on boat passing small houses on shore. Seagulls. VS Flam train station. Moving shots from train moving through mountains. Interior shots of passengers. Passing sign for station Vatnahalsen. Sign Myrdal on station building, passengers and luggage unloaded. Children playing with skip rope. LS of skiing. WS of tourists in front of fountain, statues, stone totem obelisk. WS of city, harbor, ships. Signs for Kodak film. Tower. Touring city, loading on bus. Marching military band, troops. Sculpture in garden, by pool. Little Mermaid statue, Copenhagen. Group of blonde, red-cheeked children loaded in small cart. VS of streets, sites. Stained glass window. Neon lights outline onion dome, turrets. Neon sign: Bodega. Carousel at night. Pan up pagoda outlined in lights, at night. Neon signs for cars: GM, Chevrolet, Buick, Opel, Vauxhall, Aktuelt, Ford, Cadillac. Neon sign: Royal Hotel. View out of airplane window, passing over mountains. Interior of plane, passengers. [France?] Convention hall: sign, 58th Convention du Rotary, Maison de L'Amitie. Pan of highrise buildings, harbor, street scenes, ornate buildings. Posing in front of patisserie (bakery). Palm trees. Sunbathers. Rotary signs on lamp posts. VS of people on tour. Eiffel Tower. Getting on plane at Aeroport du Paris [now Orly?].

Anecdotal Comments & ReflectionsMary Stewart Hafer notes: Getting on tour bus. Mother at waterfalls. Snowy hillsides. Mother looking down on picturesque village. Sign "Norheimsund." Boat scenes. Mother looking out window. Mountain with melting springtime snow. Rushing rivers and waterfalls. Sign on tour bus "Norwegian fjord." Tour gropu on boat. Gull perched on boat flagpole. Gulls hovering above passengers. Little fishing villages. Sign "Flam." More waterfalls. Steep roads. Tour on railroad car. Getting off train at "Myrdal" sign. Kids with ankle twirlers. Skiing. Teenage boy. Vigelund sculpture garden in Oslo, Norway. Mother and couple of friends. Kodak sign and street scene with Kodak sign. Oslo Town Hall. Band marching. Changing guard? Sculpture garden. Harbor scene. Tour group walking, going ot outdor cafe. Harbor scene. Little Mermaid in Copenhagen harbor. Red wagon full of kids. Street scene. Mother looking in shop. Interior window in church. Buildings outlined in lights at night. "Bodega" Tivoli Gardens? Merry go round. "Royal Hotel Rotary Convention sign. In France. Mother looking over harbor. Palm trees. Sunbathing. French flags and Rotary Club symbol. Tour friends. Equestrians riding below Eiffel Tower, Paris.