https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/ee656b89-4dfd-4af3-93a5-103c7dd5101d Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCddem5RlB3bQe99wyY49g0g/join Want to learn more about Periscope Film and get access to exclusive swag? Join us on Patreon. Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com “An Excursion to Europe” is a color home-style silent travelogue film by an unknown filmmaker in the Spring of 1951. This is the immediate post-War period and the film includes stark footage of damaged buildings in Frankfurt. The film takes the viewer on a tour across Western Europe to France, Denmark, and Germany. Specifically, the film features footage of major sites across Paris like the Louvre and the Versailles Palace estate as well as the royal Amalienborg Palace in Denmark and traditional Fachwerkbau in the rural German town of Gelnhausen. Film opens, opening credits (0:08). TWA Lockheed Constellation (1943-1990) preparing for take off from airport in Gander, Newfoundland, Canada (0:25). Camera pans views of austere landscape surrounding airport (0:39). Paris: Various views of Vendôme Column at center of Place Vendôme in 1st arrondissement of Paris (0:56). Place de la Concorde: British Consulate Paris, Hôtel de la Marine, Luxor Obelisk (1:51). Eiffel Tower seen in distance towering over barren tree tops (2:17). Exterior of Grand Palais, French flags wave in wind (2:47). Dome of Hôtel des Invalides seen in distance (2:59). Arc de Triomphe standing at western end of Champs-Élysées (3:06). Equestrian statue of Joan of Arc, Place des Pyramides (3:36). Tuileries Garden (3:42). The Louvre and Carrousel du Louvre entrance gate (4:16). View of La Cour Napoléon at Louvre c. 1930s (prior to addition of glass pyramids) (4:41). Another view of Carrousel du Louvre (5:22). Camera pans royal castle of Versailles, Equestrian statue of Louis XIV in central courtyard (5:41). View of the castle from the gardens, tour groups seen traversing garden grounds (6:25). Bosquet de la Colonnade in Versailles gardens “the Groves”, Latona Fountain (7:17). Palace amphitheater, “Ballroom Grove” (8:04). Colonnade Grove (8:37). Grand Trianon, French Baroque style château on the northwestern part of Versailles palace grounds (8:56). The Queen’s Hamlet - Marie Antoinette’s English-style garden and farm house (9:21). View of the seine (9:42). Martigues (ocean-side commune in Southern France): Camera pans facades of homes, fishing boats as they bob in the harbor, skyline sprawling away from water (10:14). Copenhagen, Denmark: Amalienborg Palace (The King’s Residence, Christian X), royal guard march along perimeter of palace (11:59). Germany: Camera pans rooftops, skyline of Gelnhausen (West German town near Frankfurt) (12:39). St. Mary s Church Gelnhausen (13:04). Examples of typical German architectural style of Fachwerkbau (half-timber houses) around town, snow-covered rooftops (13:44). Obermarkt central square (14:12). Various clips of perhaps relatives/ family of videographer walking towards camera, smiling, waving (14:23). Frankfurt: Bombed out frames of buildings heavily damaged during World War II, empty streets devoid of city-dwellers and pedestrians (15:45). Film ends (16:39). 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. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHgJdm525f0 Mirrored from Periscope Film (https://www.youtube.com/@PeriscopeFilm) Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:14:23 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/ee656b89-4dfd-4af3-93a5-103c7dd5101d 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.