Trip to Pakistan, Russia, and Germany, 1957--Dorothy Stebbins Bowles--home movies. Reel 34

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1957
1957 - Steb and Chet trip: Pakistan to Germany Peshawar to Kabul Kabul: grain elevator, Russian housing project, Pouladas Tashkent, Samarkhand: school, Tanelaine's Tomb, marketplace Moscow: Red Square - line to mausoleum, Orthodox Church, hotel window view Belgrade: Novi Sad, fort at Danube, Joza and Bosjian Train Belgrade to Bonn Bonn - ferry across Rhine
Mountains. People walking in front of a wall. Dark footage. Men walking down the road with camels and donkeys. Men building a bridge, laying down the bricks. Snow covered mountains. A truck drives by with men hanging on the sides. Men with donkeys on the road, others walking down the road. Kabul: Pan of a building with high long walls. A tall white building. Sheep being herded down the street. Landscape. Dorothy, wearing a Karakul hat, and a woman. An airplane with Russian writing on the side on a tarmac. A crowd in coats waiting. Chet wearing a Karakul hat standing with two men (Russian Ambassador and Harris Wofford). Russia, Tashkent: Dorothy with a man and a woman (Gregory Gabzililov and Lyndia Mutvievna). A Russian in uniform. Street scenes: people shopping, a small boy in uniform, Russian advertisements. Children in a classroom (dark). Samarkand: A building covered in mosaic (Guri Amir, Tamerlane mausoleum). Monuments and street scenes in Samarkand. Russian market sign. Marketplace, vendors, and crowds. Moscow: A long line of people in Red Square. A small boy pushing ice off the sidewalk into the street. Children playing in the snow in a city park. Dorothy on a roof overlooking the city. A large white building. People in the square. Street scenes: street car, horse drawn carriage, traffic. Yugoslavia: Dorothy, Chet, and a man on a rooftop overlooking a city. Dorothy and Chet on a bridge. Street scenes. Dark footage of Chet and some children. Belgrade to Bonn: Footage shot from moving train window - mountains, houses, towns. Salzburg: Chet with a woman (Gale Hargrove, his former secretary). Crossing the Rhine on a Ferry – boats, river, bridge, city (Bonn). [End of reel]

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