https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/103d35e5-b0a9-4df0-a323-6406184904b6 Love our channel? Help us save and post more orphaned films! Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Even a really tiny contribution can make a difference. Shot by an unknown American tourist, this silent, color home movie is about a visit to Austria including Vienna and Salzburg. This is circa the 1950s or early 1960s. Buildings and cars (:08). Imposing building, possibly a train station or city hall, amongst the green hills and mountains (:16). Building nested into a hillside (1:05). People walk around (1:14). Farm, houses, rolling green hills (1:24). Clear cut area where lumber is being harvested (1:48) People ride bikes past a bus in Kindberg, a municipality in the district of Bruck-Mürzzuschlag in Styria, Austria (1:50). An sign for Sommerfrische, a slightly outdated term for summer holiday retreat (2:10). People walk around a city street (2:25). People walk near and visit Belvedere Palace in Vienna (3:07). Statue of Erzherzog Karl (Archduke Karl) which faces fellow equestrian monument of Prinz Eugen Reiter and the Hapsburg Palace. Small dock (3:35). Vienna streets and buildings (3:43). Stephansdom, also known as St. Stephen’s Cathedral (3:54) Older women in Austria (4:22). Sign for Donaubus Station Melk Bunkerstation -- apparently a bus to the resort city of Melk located about 50 miles away (4:27). Women walk through a street in Melk on the Danube ; a car and people (4:48). Women use scythes and cut crops; sharpen a scythe (5:22). Water flows down the Danube (5:55). A couple walks by a mountainous lake; amazing mountain view (6:02). Orange sunset (6:48). Pegasus Horse Statue in Salzburg, Austria (7:02). City of Salzburg, Austria (7:33). People grouped around the trick fountains, table of the prince, Roman Theater, Hellbrunn Castle, Salzburg (7:55). Snowy Austrian Alps (8:14). Gasthof zur Linde, Oberdrauburg (8:24). Lush green rolling hills as girls ride towards camera on bicycles (8:32). Title card: The Austrian Tyrol. Innsbruck surrounded by Tyrolian Alps (9:35). From the town of Igls, near Innsbruck (9:55). Taking a cable car up to Patscherkofel, a mountain and ski area in the Alps, in Tyrol in western Austria, south of Innsbruck. (10:02). Water, trees, fog shrouded mountains (10:20). Buildings, downtown district, a small religious procession in which people in traditional clothes carry a statue of Mary, mother of Christ and of Jesus Christ (10:35). This is possibly Fronleichnam or Corpus Christi, the Catholic feast of the Eucharist. People dressed in their church clothes (11:45). Building up high against the mountains (12:24). People pose for the camera (12:31). Rushing river water (13:00) A bus goes through a covered bridge (13:08), probably in Innsbruck, the capital of Tyrol. Its name literally means "bridge on the Inn River". Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. We collect, scan and preserve 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. If you have films you'd like to have scanned or donate to Periscope Film, we'd love to hear from you. Contact us via the link below. This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrIwuoAdnuM Mirrored from Periscope Film (https://www.youtube.com/@PeriscopeFilm) Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:00:14 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.dngr.us https://peertube.dngr.us/lazy-static/avatars/41a6fee9-7f57-42d0-a5fc-5db4f1af2e31.png https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/103d35e5-b0a9-4df0-a323-6406184904b6 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.dngr.us/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.