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Shatsk. Nadvirna

Videos and films

ID:
66185
Place
Sheptytsky Lake Svityaz (Ukraine) Nadvirna Yaremche Shatsk (Volyn region, Ukraine)
Date:
1967
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 Lake Svityaz, a road trip and walks in Yaremche. 

1) 00:00:00 – 00:21:48 — Handmade title ‘Shatsk-67’ (translated from Polish). Footage taken during a road trip. A lorry carrying pipes. A herd of cows walking along the road towards the vehicle. Malgorzata during a stop by a ‘Moskvitch-408’ car. On the road in Chervonohrad. A stop for lunch: Barbara pours soup from a thermos flask, whilst Malgorzata and Krzysztof eat at a folding table. Stanislav, a young boy and a woman are having lunch by the car. A boat by the lake shore. Malgorzata is playing in the water with an inflatable ball. “This is Lake Svityaz. Back then it wasn’t fenced off; you could drive right up and park on the shore. And then the lake took that ball away. The wind was blowing from the shore. Mum was the only one of us who could swim more or less.” Commentary by Malgorzata Rushel. Krzysztof goes for a swim with a mask. Stanislav and the children are in the water. Locals on the shore and in the boat. A herd of cows, a flock of geese grazing. Malgorzata peeks out of the tent; later, she is sitting in the front seat of the car. Krzysztof with his mum and Malgorzata inside the car. A man by the tent is throwing things against the wind. Malgorzata poses for the camera in the water. Krzysztof with an inflatable ball. Malgorzata with her mum. Stanislav and the children, carrying oars, walk to the lake and go for a boat ride. Ducks on the water. Barbara washes up in the lake by the boat. Krzysztof with a toy boat on the shore. Stanislav washes a cauldron in the lake. Malgorzata is walking near the tents; Krzysztof is chopping wood. Krzysztof and Malgorzata are carrying milk to a table by the tent. “Some locals have their [houses] nearby. There were these scattered houses there. We used to get milk from them. Not a village, but a sort of scattered settlement. There was just one shop on the edge of Svityaz. By the time we’d brought the milk back, it had already lost a bit of its volume. And the cottage was interesting—still quite smoky. There was a stove and a huge copper vat standing there, probably for moonshine. We went inside once.” Comment by Malgorzata Rushel. Car journey: ‘Svityaz’ road sign. View of the waves on the lake. ‘Shatsk’ signpost. Exiting onto the roundabout. Landscape of the Shatsk Lakes. A wooden mill in the middle of a field and cows grazing nearby. A wooden bridge over the lake. Embankments in Chervonohrad. 

2) 00:21:49 – 00:26:25 — Mountain landscape. Malgorzata with her father and grandfather having lunch at a camping table. Grandfather Mechislav by the river. Stanislav packing his sleeping bag near the tents. Malgorzata sits on a chair holding a twig. Yaremche. The ‘Hutsulshchyna’ restaurant. Handicrafts by folk artists. Tourists by the Probiy waterfall. The ‘Hutsulshchyna’ holiday resort. 

3) 00:26:26 – 00:26:44 — Nadvirna. The ‘100 Years of Nadvirna Oil’ monument and the girls standing nearby. 

4) 00:26:45 – 00:27:23 — Grandfather Mechislav having lunch at a folding table. Stanislav and Malgorzata are eating on the hillside. Malgorzata with a bouquet of wildflowers. 

5) 00:27:27 – 00:28:28 — May 1968. A visit to the zoo in Obroshino. A peacock. Feeding the adax. A swan. 

6) 00:28:35 – 00:28:44 — Sledging down a hill in the park.
Language:
Ukrainian
Tags:
tourism, tent, leisure, car, lake, boat, milk, monument, family
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