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Film & Video Catalogue: Item Detail

Film Number

3270

Title

A VISIT TO SWITZERLAND

Producer

Mr Arthur Riley

Date

1937-9

Gauge

16mm

Colour

b/w & colour

Sound

silent

Running Time

8 mins 00 secs

Description

Footage of a holiday in Switzerland - scenes in Lucerne, fountains, flowers and gardens and a boat trip on the Lake, showing lakeside hotels, villages and mountain scenery. St Bernard puppies are shown, and there are shots of the alpine countryside taken from a cable car. Various holidaymakers are seen around a gorge and throwing snowballs on a mountainside., and after a railway journey, the film ends in Campione in Italy.

 

 



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