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Unidentified Mountain Trip

Date Made: 1950s
Country: German Democratic Republic

Materials: 8mm; silent; b&w
Measurements: 77 ft; x 23.4696 m
Duration: 6:27

Collection/Series: Hoffman Home Movie Collection
Accession Number: 2009.032.005

Home movie filmed in East Germany, possibly Wernigerode. Slow pan across frozen lake. Son walks by in shorts, stockings, cap, and walking stick. View of a dam; daughter, son, and mother walk along frozen path. Driving shot (with pussy willow branches in foreground in car) through town streets, high trestle bridge, past buildings, country roads. Stream runs through wooded landscape. View of cabriolet or convertible model IFA F9 car parked in background along dirt road as son explores woods; father drives with children slowly along road past camera, then returns in reverse. Children run among trees in forest, find large hinged easter eggs. Mother opens egg to show contents to camera. Father finds egg; feigns surprise. Misty landscape shots.


		

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