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Dr.Mabuse
July 18th, 2010, 08:59 PM
Silent Movie:
European Trip 1930s - Amateur Film - Part 1 of 4 - you can find the rest parts in youtube on the right side there.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVDG51S7BBc

Following movies are in german language only: (But you should check it out nevertheless because of the footage)

A travel trough Dresden 1939 in bw - Part 1 of 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgDZNCUg3Js

A travel trough Dresden 1939 in bw - Part 2 of 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_ZJdpMEHn8

Barockstadt Dresden (1936)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjM1BdOXeH4

A walk through Potsdam 1932
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRV684U3JUk

Potsdam in COLOR 1933
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWKLG0sZs5k


Following movies are in english language only!:

Glimpses of Austria (1938) in TECHNICCOLOR
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3kHozqwCcU

Traveltalks - 1938 PARIS ON PARADE in Techniccolor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SM_6mXCGVCU

London 1938 Black and White
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnupsncpTng

And at last unspectacular Spreewald black white silent movie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tksI2t8k0jU
Karasek
July 19th, 2010, 03:30 PM
Potsdam was soooo beautiful, and truly Prussian. Triumphal and modest at the same time.
wolfpaw
July 19th, 2010, 03:48 PM
I've seen these on youtube before but it's certainly very weird to see things like Dresden's altstadt in moving pictures just a short time before it was incinerated.

Here's one showing Frankfurt's enormous fachwerk altstadt prior to the war: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhldPRoFHv4&feature=related

:(
Dr.Mabuse
July 19th, 2010, 05:44 PM
I've seen these on youtube before but it's certainly very weird to see things like Dresden's altstadt in moving pictures just a short time before it was incinerated.

Here's one showing Frankfurt's enormous fachwerk altstadt prior to the war: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhldPRoFHv4&feature=related

:(

very interessting! thank you!

a last vid i found

Potsdam 1926
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTagOsGMdqU
wolfpaw
July 19th, 2010, 11:05 PM
Potsdam was soooo beautiful, and truly Prussian. Triumphal and modest at the same time.

I agree. It had a classical beauty that was totally serene and confident. This post-war photo of the the stadtschloss looks hauntingly like a ruined temple from ancient Greece:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/60/Bundesarchiv_Bild_170-392%2C_Potsdam%2C_Stadtschlo%C3%9F_nach_1945.jpg

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_170-392,_Potsdam,_Stadtschlo%C3%9F_nach_1945.jpg

Weird really. :cripes: