1930s CITY OF PRAGUE CZECHOSLOVAKIA TRAVELOGUE FILM RIVER MOLDAU 42524
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- Опубликовано: 24 авг 2024
- This black & white educational film, which was likely shown at the New York World's Fair in 1940, is about Modern Czechoslovakia with a specific focus on Prague. It contains rare images of the bustling, cosmopolitan capitol with its modernist buildings and centuries old churches and neighborhoods. Copyright on the film is 1940 but clearly, all content was shot prior to the German invasion in March, 1939.
Opening titles: Modern Czechoslovakia (:07-1:12), produced and directed by George J. Janecek (who later in life became the director of the Office of Public Information External Relations Division for the United Nations). City of Prague. A man gives a tour on a boat. A city of churches. Statues. The Powder Tower or Powder Gate is a Gothic tower in Prague, Czech Republic. It is one of the original city gates. It separates the Old Town from the New Town. A modern church. Buildings in Prague (1:13-2:57). People walk the city. Trolley cars or trams. People board them and trolley buses as well. Fine shops. People get coffee and sit and eat in cafes (2:58-4:22). A bridge over the River Moldau in Prague. A power plant. A big department store. A social security building. Administration building. A man walks near a hotel. Department of Social Welfare Building (4:23-5:50). Tatra Mountains. Snow capped mountains. An extinct volcano. A new health resort in the Tatra Mountains. Construction project (5:51-7:21). A man hacks a tree down. Shirtless men wave hats. People wave. A new railroad station in a new spot of the country. A happy crowd. A train on the railways. Train goes through a tunnel. An electric train goes much faster on the tracks (7:22-8:54). Woodrow Wilson Station. The heart of the country. Cars drive down a road. Houses. Motorcycles. Prague Municipal Airport. The plane is looked over mechanics and the propellers start. Old section of Prague (8:55-10:41). Modern housing. Children play in the water, girls dance, play games. People swim in a pool. Women swim and sunbathe. People dive off the diving board. Women sunbathe (10:42-12:25). Factories. Steel mills. Steel mill makes pieces for the army of the invader. Craftsmen in a shoe factory at work. Power plant. A dam. Water rushes down a dam wall. Water turbines inside the dam's walls (12:26-14:11). Rock and earth is moved. Water. Pails of water move. Water races down. Houses. Children sit while a woman hangs laundry. Little girls eat a snack. A modern building. Czech troops march. Planes, cannons, troops. Men on horseback (14:12-16:21). End credits (16:22-16:27).
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Fascinating. Always wondered how Czechoslovakia look like during the 30s. Much oblige to the uploader, important piece of history right here!
And then the Germans kicked in the door, took all their stuff, and murdered grandma. Then the Americans bombed everything flat. Then the Soviets showed up and wrecked/ stole anything that was left and left them impoverished and backwards for half a century. This is the sad story of pretty much all of eastern Europe.
Well, yes, except that bombing. Most of the Czechoslovakia was left intact, in comparison to Germany.
Poor grandma...
@@mirilike3965Not only Germany, many cities and towns of eastern and central Europe were razed down by retreating Germans, Prague was the exception
Same with East Germany
yeah the entire world outside the western world was shit
I often mentioned to friends that things can change quickly. Berlin was once one of the most diverse and cultured cities in Europe. In just a few years it became the world's center of intolerance and hatred.
Happens all the time. Tehran was once very much the same. I always chuckle when people say "we would never do something like that" or "that sort of thing could never happen here".
@@GoSlash27 I saw a video of Tehran in the 50's or 60's and it looked very Western. Women in normal clothes shopping in department stores. Very shocking...
When Turks showed up? Or Sudatens? Or Hapsburgs? Or Merkel? When are you talking about?
@@scottspurlee8986hindsight is wrong way to see the past
Bylo by dobré, kdyby k tomu byl udělán český překlad a zrenovován tento dokument. Je to historické a velmi poučné.
Some curious things in the video, I'm not sure the narrator is always precisely correct ...
River Moldau is the German name for what everyone in Prague knows as the Vltava River. Was Moldau used by the narrator to have a dig at the Nazi invaders?
01:47 Statue of the Virgin Mary and St. Bernard on Charles Bridge
01:52 Looking East on Charles Bridge: Old-town Bridge Tower, Church of St. Francis of Assisi, Church of St. Salvator
01:58 Church of St. Salvator from Křižovnické Square (East end of Charles Bridge)
02:00 Identified as a Powder Tower. Now known as the Rotunda sv. Martina at Vyšehrad. Maybe it was a powder tower at Vyšehrad Castle?
02:13 St. Wenceslas Church at náměstí Svatopluka Čecha, Vršovice, Prague 10
02:21 The Church of the Most Sacred Heart of Our Lord at náměstí Jiřího z Poděbrad, Vinohrady, Prague 3
02:24 Hussite Church in Vinohrady
02:54 Directing traffic near intersection of Jungmannova and Národní streets
14:02 Zlín
15:06 Zlín Bat'a employee houses
Manderlak shot was from Blava...no?
There are definitely some strange things in the narration. For example, the text identifies St. Martin's Rotunda on Vysehrad as the Powder Tower?
For an American/English audience the use of Moldau for the river would be more familiar than Vltava, because largely of performances of Smetana's tone poem using the German name. I don't think it's a dig at the Germans, it's simply the more internationally-recognized name at that time.
Clearly the footage pre-dates the Nazi invasion because the automobile traffic is driving on the left. The final scenes of soldiers appear to be Czechoslovak military perhaps during exercises, or perhaps during the May mobilization of 1938, or both. The Nazi invasion was in March 1939, and from the narration and text it appears that all the footage predates that, with only the foreshadowing of the future at the end with the quote from the hymn to St. Vaclav.
@@hughagnew6646 And maybe there were powder stored at some point? (The Rotunda). How about the Kasematy?
The rotunda was indeed used to store gunpowder (during the 30 years war) but they shouldn't have called it a tower.
English speakers can't pronounce Vltava, I guess that name Moldau is standardised even in English.
Love seeing videos form my homeland
Julius Meinl in 30s, that's cool.
Czechoslávia in the 30,s is very interesting and accept well the progress in that time.
4:55 - 5:25 Hradec Králové 👌
"Health-giving rays of the sun" people were so much smarter then.
They didn’t have sunscreen back then lol
Me equiboque de video, Este no es el de 1939
1938
Did he say extinct Volcano Lomnicki Stit??!!!!!!! Learn something new hahaha