Home movie by Middlesbrough based dentist and amateur fillmaker of a holiday in Venice with his wife Kate in the summer of 1955. The film focuses on the architecture, canals, monuments and tourist sites in the city. Title: Reel 3 Venice An arrow indicates Venice on a hand drawn map. Title: Italy. Venezia. Still of a tourist guide map of Venice. Title: Italy. Hotel Royal Danieli Excelsior. An arrow on the map indicates the location of the hotel beside the Grand Canal. General views of...

Home movie by Middlesbrough based dentist and amateur fillmaker of a holiday in Venice with his wife Kate in the summer of 1955. The film focuses on the architecture, canals, monuments and tourist sites in the city. Title: Reel 3 Venice An arrow indicates Venice on a hand drawn map. Title: Italy. Venezia. Still of a tourist guide map of Venice. Title: Italy. Hotel Royal Danieli Excelsior. An arrow on the map indicates the location of the hotel beside the Grand Canal. General views of the hotel, and a view of the boats and gondolas moored on the canal, filmed from the hotel. Title: Italy. Venice. St George The Great. The Basilica San Giorgio Maggiore (Church of St George The Great) stands in the old harbour of Venice, on the Isle of St George, seen from across the canal water. Title: Italy. Venice. Riva Degli Schiavoni A view of a busy promenade follows. Title: Italy. Venice. S. Maria Della Salute An arrow on the tourist map indicates the location of the Basilica of St Mary of Health. A traveling shot from a gondola ride shows the exterior of the church. Kate Brown is seated beside the Grand Canal. High angle shots of a boat selling fruit or vegetables to customers beside the canal, and river police or other public officers. Title: Italy. Venice. House of the Snail. An arrow on the tourist map indicates the location of the Snail House. An exterior shot shows the Contarini del Bovolo, or Snail House, located in an alley near St Mark’s Square, with a spiral staircase visible in a Gothic tower. Title: Italy. Venice. The Rialto. An arrow on the tourist map indicates the location of the Rialto. A still photograph of the Rialto Bridge over the Grand Canal follows. Title: Italy. Venice. The Grand Canal. An arrow on the tourist map indicates the next location on the Grand Canal. Overhead view of the Grand Canal with gondolas in the foreground and a church with dome and minarets on the right. Title: Italy. Venice. Palazzo Cavallo The film documents the Pallazzo Cavalli - Franchetti, a palace on the Grand Canal, followed by a shot down into the gondolas. [There is some sprocket damage visible in several frames of the film]. An old woman is hanging washing from an upper floor window of a house. Title: Italy. Venice. Bridge of Sighs 1600 An arrow on a tourist map indicates the location of the Bridge of Sighs. General views of the white limestone Bridge of Sighs with tourists’ heads visible in frame, followed by a view of canals seen through a patterned window of the bridge. Title: Italy. Venice. Doge’s Palace An arrow on the tourist map indicates the location of the Doge’s Palace. A travelling shot records the exterior of the Doge’s Palace from the canal, with closer shots that show the decorative carved surrounds of the windows. Title: Italy. Venice. Doge’s Palace. Don Juan’s Prison There is a general exterior view of the part of the palace, which contained the prison cell of Giacomo Casanova, followed by a view of the decorated exterior of a rear courtyard in the Doge’s Palace. Title: Italy. Venice. St Mark’s An arrow on the tourist map indicates the location of the church, Basilica di San Marco, or Saint Mark’s Basilica. There is an exterior shot of the façade of Saint Mark’s Basilica followed by a view through an arch in shadow. Next, general views of the church from the square are shown. Title: Italy. Venice. St Mark’s Square 1496-1810 From a balcony of Saint Mark’s Basilica, overhead shot down into St. Mark’s Square with its many café tables. Kate looks at the Horses of Saint Mark bronze statues on the façade of the cathedral. In the background we can see the Lion Clock on the square. Title: Italy. Venice. Lion Clock 1496 The Lion Clock is viewed through the statue legs of the Horses of Saint Mark. The shot is a little out of focus. People can be seen on the flat roof of the Lion Clock Tower, and there is a closer shot of the Virgin and Child statue on the gallery of the tower. Title: Italy. Venice. Campanile An arrow on the tourist map indicates the location of St Mark’s Campanile, or bell tower. Various shots show the full height of the bell tower of St. Mark’s Basilica and close-ups of the pyramidal spire and golden archangel weather vane. Title: Italy. Venice. Souvenirs. A male artist with long white hair and black beret sketches portraits for tourists. A woman walks away with her portrait in her hand. Title: Italy. Venice. A Rivaderci This section charts the departure from Venice, with a shot of a speeding gondola taxi, the water of the canal, Kate Brown helped from the taxi, and then stepping onto the tour coach. An illustration of the "Ciat Bus" follows. An arrow on a hand drawn map indicates the final stop as Milan. Title: Italy. Milan Airport. Kate Brown is amongst passengers boarding the airplane at Milan Airport. Title: 20,000 Feet Shot through plane window of the thick cloud below. Kate leaves the plane. End Title: The End Credit: Photography by T. H. Brown