https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/cf3d2863-ff38-4672-b71c-a2c2630b87fa "Round the World Pictures” is an amateur travelogue and film history treasure by a San Francisco based Edison mimeograph dealer named Ward Harris. It is one of two films of a series by Harris featuring a pre-WW2 UK. Harris was an Edison collector. He managed several traveling exhibits and maintained an inventory of over 50,000 items including phonographs, batteries, light bulbs, Edison toasters and other electrical equipment. His collection was dispersed following his death in the 1950’s. This film and it’s companion are the only two films that survived. It features Edison’s Ediphone Voice Writing; early Edison technology that ultimately revolutionized business communication as it allowed executives to dictate memos at any time and typists to work on transcripts later. Ward’s footage showcases 1930’s style and travel in scenes aboard the stunning and tragic Duchess of Atholl; shipmates compete in a pillow fight, toss rings for tennikoit and play shuffleboard across the open sea deck. He continues to capture the fabric of Irish culture in ground footage through Belfast and Dublin with images of local businesses and it’s historic architecture style influenced by Norman and Anglo-Irish societies. It closes in Scotland sweeping the countryside, rural towns and Edinburgh. It shows a turning point in transportation history as the automobile became more advanced. Modern vehicles and double decker buses mingle with horse and buggies. Boat and train use was on the rise. 00:00 The grand Canadian Pacific Steamship ocean liner; Duchess Atholl of London opens (:26-:54). It was known for it’s elegance and tragic sinking during WW2 in South Atlantic waters. Her demise forced a lasting legacy in maritime history. Footage spans Montreal’s skyline (:59) towards the Jacques Cartier Bridge built in 1925 as the Montreal Harbor Bridge (1:09). It was renamed in 1934 in commemoration of Jacques Cartier’s voyage up the St. Lawrence River. Harris films the cityscape aboard the ship (1:31). Twin funnels pass under the bridge (2:08). Shipmates compete in a pillow fight (2:21), tennikoit (3:04) and shuffleboard (3:16). They arrive in Ireland (3:30); double decker buses advertise Hughes Bread (3:54) near a sign for Wills Gold Flake tobacco in Belfast. Street scenes show locals with wooden carts (4:05), Belfast City Hall (4:57), stagecoaches, modern automobiles, cyclists (5:17) and Donegall Square (5:39). Dublin Castle (6:26), St. Patrick’s Cathedral (6:40), the Liffey River (6:47) and the campanile at Trinity College built in 1852 (5:50) precede landscape footage of the Irish country (7:03-7:24). Harris tours the 12th century Jerpoint Abbey (8:49). In Limerick, shots capture Nolan’s Cathedral, Nolan’s cottages, Thomond Bridge (9:03-9:14) and the Treaty Stone near the River Shannon (9:17). Farmers meet in an agricultural town without modern vehicles (10:39). Horse drawn carts brings lumber (11:15) and livestock owners sell cattle (12:22). Locals row a boat (14:42) and tend to a fawn (14:44). The picturesque Garinish Island (15:18); a garden park of Bantry Bay off the coast of Cork designed by Harold Peto and it’s Martello tower (16:59) precede the entry to Scotland (17:10). The Scottish military parades (17:40-18:29). Edinburgh Castle on Castle Rock (18:33-19:00) and it’s 18 pound cannons from the Napoleonic Wars follow (19:34-2010). King Robert the Bruce’s tombstone (20:59) precedes his statue at Stirling Castle (21:09). Burns Cottage in Ayr (22:18-22:24), Tam O’ Shanter Inn (22:34) and Robert Burns’ statue (22:50) follow. The Inn; still in operation, is the oldest restaurant in Ayr. A man plays a bagpipe (23:09). Melrose Abbey (24:16-24:51), Scotland’s historic Forth Bridge (25:48) and footage aboard the paddle wheel steamer Mercury traversing the Loch Lomond (26:41-27:11) follow. It launched in 1934 and ran a route from Greenock to Gourock, Wernyss Bay, Dunoon and Rothesay. It was requisitioned in WW2 and lost during minesweeping duties. Holyrood Palace (27:37), St. Giles Cathedral (28:04) and a young boy playing the bagpipe closes the film (31:21). 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. 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