Juckes: Soroptimists Trip: Tour of Hungary and Germany

Summary

A tour by members of the Soroptimist Club of Great Britain and Ireland of Hungary and Germany during July 1936 filmed by Florence Juckes from Birmingham.

Year:

1936

Duration:

0:19:34

Film type:

B&W/Colour / Silent

Genre:

Home Movie

Company:

Master format:

16mm

Description

The film includes detailed inter-titles providing us with locations. We open with views of the Millennium monument in Budapest and an event held on 14 July 1936 in which the acting president of the Soroptimist Clubs of Great Britain and Ireland, Mrs E. E. Cockcroft laid a floral wreath on the grave of the unknown soldier. Brief colour views of the wreath follow before we return to b/w for views of statues of the former King of Hungary Francis Joseph and his wife, Queen Elizabeth. A group of Hungarian girls pose for the camera (one is wearing traditional costume). We then see an exterior shot of Budapest University and colour views of a street market with women selling embroidery and textiles in front of a lily pond.

We continue in Germany with views of the Konigsplatz Memorial in Munich (Nazi flags visible), a shot of the Wittelsbach Fountain which the caption informs us is the work of A. V. Hildebrand and a statue of the writer Goethe. Next we see a group of children wearing costumes (they performed at an event for the Soroptimist visitors in the Kunstlerhaus in Munich on 16 July 1936). Street scenes in Munich follow including a police man on point duty and views of the opera house and university. We see football being played (the caption tells us that the players in the background are women). We also see the River Isar, the Regina Palast Hotel and see women from the tour eating sausages in the corridor of a train. A group from the tour pose for the camera on a bench at Hof von Holland station (including Mrs E. G. Merry of London and unnamed members of the Birmingham Soroptimist Club).

Next the group take a river tour on the Rhine from Mainz to Coblenz passing flooded areas. There are signs indicating stops at Wiesbaden and Bingen and distant shots of a group (captioned ‘Brown Shirts’) marching on the quayside. The party pose for the camera on the steps of Cologne Cathedral (including a Miss Elliott) before we see brief views taken from a train heading back through Europe including a waving woman (captioned as a Kiserworth Deaconess) at Cologne station and a money changer at Brussels station. The final shots show the group on their return ferry journey from Ostend to Dover on 19 July 1936.


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