Rafting on the Dniester
- ID: 65329
- Place: Dniester Canyon
- Date: 1960/1970
Videos and films
- ID:
- 65331
- Place
- Yaremche
- Date:
- 1968-08-01/1968-08-31
- Genre:
- Amateur film
- Technique:
- 8mm film
- Color:
- black and white, color
- Sound:
- Silent
- Collection
- Ostap Protsyk
- Description
-
The film features footage of a trip through the Gorgany Mountains.
1) 00:00:00 – 00:02:37 — Custom–made title: “Amateur Film Studio ‘Compass’”. “The film shows a route that passes through the Gorgan Range [...] the most picturesque part of the forested or Ukrainian Carpathians: Mounts Homyak, Synyak, and Dovbushanka. [...] The route shown in the film was covered in 9 days.” A train on the station platform. A tourist with a backpack. Landscape shots of villages and mountainous terrain from the train window.
2) 00:02:37 – 00:14:21 — Two tourists get off at the train station in Yaremche. The men take turns putting on heavy backpacks. The “Hutsulshchyna” restaurant. The Prut River. Tourists near their tents. A man standing next to a goat on the riverbank. Tourists walking through the forest; one of them is holding a camera. Climbing a mountain. Title: “First peak conquered.” Panoramic view of the landscape. The flames of a campfire. Morning ablutions in the open air. A man takes down the tent and extinguishes the campfire. Tourists climb to the mountain peak. A man looks at a map near a survey marker. A snack on the way. A man drinks water from a pool in a rock. A mountain stream. A hiker eats raspberries picked from the branches. A snake on the trail. A man drinks river water from an enamel cup. A hiker climbs the mountain. Title: “Three peaks are already behind us: Homyak, Synyak, Gorgan.” Hikers near the tents. A man at the summit takes notes. A man near a tent. Men on forest trails and overgrown railroad tracks. Mushroom picking.
3) 00:14:22 – 00:16:29 — A tourist climbs to the summit of Mount Syvulia, inspecting the military fortifications of the Austrian army from World War I. Caption: “Syvulia [...] which are very often covered in clouds, were the last peaks of the hike.” Landscapes from the summit. A hiker descends to the bus stop in Huty. Caption: “The route ended in the village of Huty”; “Participants and filmmakers: M. Kobyliukh.” A man looks at a map near a tent. Caption: “V. Martynchuk.” A man packs his belongings into a backpack near an inflatable chair and a tent. - Language:
- Ukrainian
- Tags:
- amateur, tourism, railway, youth, mountains, camera, river, tent, architecture,
