Wernigerode 1965
Maker: Hoffman Family
Date Made: 1965
Country: German Democratic Republic
Materials: 8mm; silent; b&w and color
Measurements: 56 m; x 183 3/4 ft
Duration: 15:20
Collection/Series: Hoffman Home Movie Collection
Accession Number: 2009.032.002
Home movie filmed in Wernigerode, East Germany. [in color] Family sits with walking sticks in grass by roadside. Pan across landscape, castle. Mother, father, and daughter (in sunglasses) sit on bench. Family walks along country road. Views of castle tower in town, palace on hill, half-timbered buildings in town streets. Details of historic buildings. Close-up shot of lintel bearing dates 1600 and 1928. Cattle walk through streets; view of clock tower. Daughter bounces on a log. Mother smiles for camera. Daughter, carrying camera on a strap, walks up staircase to lookout on top of boulders. Rocky mountain streams and log bridge. Mother, son, and daughter pose on rocks with walking sticks. [switches to b&w at 11:11] Crowds of people flank a grass ski jump slope. Quick cuts between several ski jumpers in succession. Exterior of house; daughter, mother, and son exit, walk towards camera, then away along a dirt road. Son and father walk on rocks by mountain stream. Windy lake, dam.