https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/8c00587e-02ff-43cc-ada5-3b4194f44d39 Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCddem5RlB3bQe99wyY49g0g/join Help us preserve, scan and post more rare and endangered films! Join us on Patreon. Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com This 1949 vintage educational film "Life in Mountains" is about life in the Alps, in Switzerland. The film follows the Villar family as they farm the fields and tend to livestock herds. The family’s daily chores are contrasted as they adjust to changing seasons. Coronet created 16 mm shorts from the 1940s to the 1980s for use in the classroom and in public libraries in order to provide students with in depth learning. This film was created in collaboration with Clyde F. Kohn; Associate Professor of Geography at Northwestern University (:18). Kohn was also a well-known geographer and author. The camera view opens up on snow traced mountain slopes (:35). A small village sits nestled in the mountains (:42). The Alps are highlighted on a map of Switzerland (1:05). The narrator mentions nearly half of Switzerland’s population had settled in the mountains (1:14). A woman wearing traditional clothing wanders down a narrow alleyway in the small village (1:26). The village church and clock tower follow (1:34). The Swiss boarding school; Maison D’ecole, appears in the heart of the Bernese Alps (1:43). Locals wander into small shops (1:55). Goods here have been manufactured in major cities of Switzerland and other countries. Two Swiss females and a male wander up a dirt road running alongside the village (2:01). The narrator guides viewers to a farmhouse owned by the Villars family on the outskirts of the mountain region (2:11). A close shot notes a steep roof constructed for heavy snow falls (2:20). Logs are stacked outside of the home for fuel (2:36). A mother and daughter named Annette, of the Villars family step from the home (2:45). The pair sift through their vegetable garden (3:05) as snow peaked mountains rise in the background. Lush forests ride up the mountain slope (3:22). Swiss famers cut hay on the green meadows using hand tools (3:29). Annette’s brother Paul sits with a small goat herd (3:52). A cattle herd grazes on the high slopes (4:30). The father of the family moves up the slope (4:35). He heads for the cheese house where he makes the family cheese (4:56). The narrator mentions the hut has been made with stone in order to keep the cheese house cool. The milk is heated in a big kettle (5:10). He utilizes a cheese cloth in order to separate the whey (5:31). The curds are pressed into a wooden mold (5:40). Stones are stacked atop the lid in order to squeeze out the remaining whey (5:45). The following morning (5:54) the round of Swiss cheese is pictured ready for the curing house (6:08). These cheeses will age for months. Annette and her mother dry beans in the autumn (6:32). The pair search for the father and brother Paul in the grounds below (6:47). The cattle herd is driven down from the mountain (6:54) at the close of summer. The mother of the home works to churn butter (7:19). Paul sifts through dirt for the remaining harvest of potatoes (7:32). Fire wood is chopped as they prepare for winter (7:43). Many of the residences here will be isolated by heavy snows in the coming months. The valleys and slopes appear at the close of autumn (8:04) as well as a few weeks later as the first snow falls (8:11). The small village appears under a blanket of snow (8:18). The home of the Villars family (8:24) is revisited to display winter’s daily activates. Paul and Annette head for school (8:33). Youth slide down a snowy slope (8:51). Paul rides his skis down the slope (9:03). Tourists arrive in Switzerland for its wondrous ski slopes (9:10). The sun sets on the home of the Villars (9:21). Within the home, the mother spins yarn (9:28), the children finish schoolwork and the father reads the paper (9:32). Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. For almost two decades, we've worked to collect, scan and preserve the world as it was captured on 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. If you have endangered films you'd like to have scanned, or wish to donate celluloid to Periscope Film so that we can share them with the world, we'd love to hear from you. Contact us via the weblink 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. 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