At sea. With tents

Videos and films

ID:
66181
Place
Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi (Odesa region, Ukraine) Lebedivka (Odesa region, Ukraine)
Date:
1965/1971
Genre:
Home movies
Technique:
8mm film
Color:
black and white, color
Sound:
Silent
Copyright
Malgorzata Rushel
Collection
Malgorzata Rushel
Description
The film features footage of a family holiday by the sea, in the mountains with tents, and skiing. 

1) 00:00:00 – 00:01:58 — Malgorzata Rushel and her mother Barbara are carrying a bag. Malgorzata is in the back seat of the car during the journey. Stanislav is at the wheel, Barbara is in the front seat. Views from the car window. “Once, maybe twice, we drove from Lviv to my dad’s holiday camp [at the ‘Teploelektroproekt’ Institute]. We also stopped off to see Odesa on the way. Bakhchysarai. Then we finally arrived.” Commentary by Malgorzata Rushel. 

2) 00:02:03 – 00:04:49 — Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi. The Ovid (Kiliya) Tower of the Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Fortress. 

3) 00:04:50 – 00:07:42 — Handmade title: “[...], hang in there! 1971”. A camping trip. Malgorzata is sleeping in a tent. A saucepan on a camping spirit stove. A view of a lake and a road with lorries nearby. Barbara and Malgorzata are walking along the lakeside. 

4) 00:07:43 – 00:19:20 — Lebedivka, the holiday camp of the ‘Teploelektroproekt’ Institute. Barbara and Malgorzata on their way to the beach. A family holiday by the sea. Barbara and Malgorzata playing in the water with an inflatable ball. Malgorzata and Stanislav are swimming. The surf. Malgorzata and Barbara are examining pebbles. Stanislav and Malgorzata are eating watermelon in a room at the holiday resort. Barbara is holding a cornet jellyfish. Sea waves. Malgorzata and her father are walking along the beach. A flock of gulls. Malgorzata in the waves, holding seaweed. Footage taken during a car journey. 

5) 00:19:21 – 00:23:41 — Malgorzata with her parents and her cousin Krzysztof on a walk in the woods. Malgorzata and Krzysztof on a rock. Stanislav and the children pose for the camera. “Those must be the Dovbush Rocks, I suppose. They made me climb up in some slippery sandals; I was afraid to come down afterwards.” Comment by Malgorzata Rushel. 

6) 00:23:50 – 00:28:37 — Leisure time with tents. Malgorzata with the girls, one of whom is her cousin on her father’s side, Teresa, by the campfire. Barbara in the car. Two tents between two cars. Malgorzata brings branches for the campfire; later, she and her mother prepare lunch in a saucepan. Stanislav, wearing a turban, lies down on three folding chairs. Barbara serves vermicelli onto plates. Lunch. A game of badminton. Barbara pours water from a canister into a cup; the girls wash their faces. A mountain river and tourists on its banks. “We were camping in the Carpathians. Mum slept in the car. We slept in the tent, mum slept in the car. We packed our furniture with us. A little table with legs that unscrewed – it packed neatly into the boot. And those folding chairs. And that’s how we travelled.” Commentary by Malgorzata Rushel. 

7) 00:28:38 – 00:29:09 — A view of a mountain pass. Malgorzata and a little girl are racing each other along the road. Barbara and two women are chopping vegetables by the tent. 

8) 00:28:38 – 00:36:02 — Cross-country skiing in ‘Pohulianka’ Park. Malgorzata is building a snowman. A man is walking along a path. A game of snowballs. Skiing. Animal tracks in the snow. Barbara with a woman. A group of people on skis walks along the railway track. Malgorzata digs in the snow. A close-up of Barbara wearing sunglasses. Malgorzata in the snow. A monument to Szymon Wizunas-Szydłowski, a participant in the January Uprising of 1863, at Lychakiv Cemetery. 

9) 00:36:03 – 00:36:18 — Malgorzata and her father are playing ball outdoors.
Tags:
rest, sea, travel, tourism, watermelon, jellyfish, tent, leisure, badminton, car, skiing, monument, park, ball
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