Traveltalks goes to Vienna. The street scenes don't have too many people. Instead, they're filming mostly people in costumes. The men do the slap dancing and a kid steals a beer. Next, they're in the bucolic countryside. It's like Sound of Music before the Nazis arrive. I am straining to spot any hint of Nazi support in this pre-war Austria and could see non. In the end, this is a picture postcard vacation and not much else.
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Talk about shuffling TITANIC deck chairs . . .
oscaralbert29 January 2019
Warning: Spoilers
. . . with GLIMPSES OF AUSTRIA totally waltzing around the blazing bonfire of anti-Semitism about to engulf the World--wiping out AT LEAST 100 million souls--in an unprecedented conflagration sparked in this blinder-goggled narrator's "Gay" Land of Slap-Happy "Folk Dancers." Surely if the commentator for GLIMPSES OF AUSTRIA had been at Ford Theater that fateful night in April, 1865, he'd have been the first to ask newly-widowed Mary Lincoln, "Other than the shenanigan, how did you enjoy the play?" Some might praise the tunnel vision required for a GWTW Confederate soldier extra to catch a daily rush of the Atlanta railroad station's crane shot laying out Gettysburg's plucking of the Rebel Youth blossom, and commenting about how "You have to really admire the spaciousness of these old time Southern train depots." It's likely that most of the landmarks highlighted during this obtuse narration for GLIMPSES OF AUSTRIA were razed during the Apocalyptic showdown Austrians so enthusiastically embraced to THE SOUND OF MUSIC. If the self-styled "The Voice of the Globe" had seen fit to sound an alarm during his GLIMPSES OF AUSTRIA cover-up, rather than lollygagging around beer gardens and pubs, maybe a few million WWII victims could have been spared.
TravelTalks
Michael_Elliott8 February 2010
Glimpses of Austria (1938)
** 1/2 (out of 4)
Another TravelTalks entry, this one taking us to Vienna, the largest city in Astria. Once there we get to visit the large Schonbrunn Palce, which has a total of 1441 rooms and over 300 kitches. From here we go to the Charles Church, which was created due to a major plague that hit the town and then we see the historic Statut Opera House. We also get to see several folk dances as well as the many dazzling costumes that people were wearing around at the time. Fans of the James A. FitzPatrick series will certainly want to check this here out if, like me, they have a morbid desire to see every film in the series. As is the usual case, this here offers some great scenery with the Technicolor and the stories we're told aren't too bad either. The most fascinating stuff deals with the various famous people who ended up staying at the White Horse Inn and a famous joke that would come from that meeting (now politically incorrect).
** 1/2 (out of 4)
Another TravelTalks entry, this one taking us to Vienna, the largest city in Astria. Once there we get to visit the large Schonbrunn Palce, which has a total of 1441 rooms and over 300 kitches. From here we go to the Charles Church, which was created due to a major plague that hit the town and then we see the historic Statut Opera House. We also get to see several folk dances as well as the many dazzling costumes that people were wearing around at the time. Fans of the James A. FitzPatrick series will certainly want to check this here out if, like me, they have a morbid desire to see every film in the series. As is the usual case, this here offers some great scenery with the Technicolor and the stories we're told aren't too bad either. The most fascinating stuff deals with the various famous people who ended up staying at the White Horse Inn and a famous joke that would come from that meeting (now politically incorrect).
What Silly Lyrics They Attach To "The Blue Danube"
boblipton4 September 2021
James A. Fitzpatrick sends the Technicolor cameras to Austria -- still considered a separate country in Culver City, despite Anschluss -- under Winton Hoch and natters on about opera houses, music, that dance in which men dress in lederhosen and slap at each other, and Strauss, all without leaving the Danube valley.
The copy of this movie tat plays occasionally on Turner Classic Movies is in fine shape, showing off pre-War Austria to its advantage. Hoch deserves a lot of credit. A Technicolor specialist, he was a frequent cameraman on the Fitzgerald Traveltalks. He is best remembered for the four features he was the lighting cameraman on for John Ford. He died in 1979, three months shy of his 74th birthday.
The copy of this movie tat plays occasionally on Turner Classic Movies is in fine shape, showing off pre-War Austria to its advantage. Hoch deserves a lot of credit. A Technicolor specialist, he was a frequent cameraman on the Fitzgerald Traveltalks. He is best remembered for the four features he was the lighting cameraman on for John Ford. He died in 1979, three months shy of his 74th birthday.
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