Yessentuki. Kislovodsk. Elbrus
- ID: 66156
- Place: Yessentuki (Stavropol Kray, Russia)
- Date: 1969
Videos and films
- ID:
- 66158
- Place
- Jūrmala (Latvia) Riga (Latvia) Sigulda (Latvia) Turaida (Sigulda, Latvia)
- Date:
- 1972
- Genre:
- Home movies
- Technique:
- 8mm film
- Color:
- black and white
- Sound:
- Silent
- Copyright
- Oles Dzyndra
- Collection
- Oles Dzyndra
- Description
-
The film contains footage of a trip to Latvia.
1) 00:00:16 – 00:00:46 — Jūrmala. A sign on the beach indicating the distances to the districts of Dubulti and Pumpe. A storm.
2) 00:00:47 – 00:02:04 — Riga. The Brothers’ Cemetery. Sculptural groups of horsemen at the entrance. The Eternal Flame. A panoramic view of the cemetery with a close–up of the Mother of Latvia. A woman by the boxwood bushes.
3) 00:02:05 – 00:03:59 — Riga. The tower of St Peter’s Church. St James’s Cathedral. Scaffolding for restoration work on the stone buildings. Streets of Riga. Riga Cathedral. Construction of a hotel next to the Cathedral of the Nativity of Christ. A woman out for a walk playing with a puppy. A man walking along the promenade. A children’s playground with swings.
4) 00:04:00 – 00:04:58 — Alternating shots of a woman and a man on the side of a motorway. A freight train passing by.
5) 00:04:59 – 00:06:50 — The “Sigulda” sanatorium. Sigulda Castle. Tourists viewing the castle of the Livonian Order. A cable car and landscape shots from its windows. The grounds of Turaida Castle.
6) 00:06:51 – 00:08:48 — Footage from a window during a coach journey: a passenger train in motion, the railway bridge over the Daugava in Riga. A panorama of the city centre. Scaffolding near the tower of St Peter’s Church. The Memorial Museum of the Red Latvian Riflemen. The Daugava embankment. Tourists near Riga Castle.
7) 00:08:49 – 00:10:35 — Tourists in the cabin of a river boat. Panoramic view of Riga and its ports from the Daugava. - Language:
- Latvian
- Tags:
- travel, beach, sea, storm, city, architecture, landmark, bus, woman, walk, memorial, sculpture, eternal flame, cable car, dog, river, port, transport, railway, tourism, sanatorium
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