Miscellaneous amateur film footage of a Mediterranean cruise around 1936, locations unidentified. This film is part of the Newcastle & District Amateur Cinematographers Association (ACA) collection. [Reel 1] The film opens with shots of holiday makers at a Mediterranean location: a woman poses in a garden smoking a cigarette; a man sunbathes on rocks by a pool surrounded by a canopy of trees. A general landscape view follows. Exterior shot of the Eagle Heights Hotel. The woman is now...

Miscellaneous amateur film footage of a Mediterranean cruise around 1936, locations unidentified. This film is part of the Newcastle & District Amateur Cinematographers Association (ACA) collection. [Reel 1] The film opens with shots of holiday makers at a Mediterranean location: a woman poses in a garden smoking a cigarette; a man sunbathes on rocks by a pool surrounded by a canopy of trees. A general landscape view follows. Exterior shot of the Eagle Heights Hotel. The woman is now standing next to two cars. General view of a wood, some of the trees fallen. A cruise liner launches from a wharf crowded with people waving it off, countless streamers thrown from the ship blowing in the wind. Travelling shot of a steam tug guiding the ship. Two women and a man enjoy drinks and cigarettes on the ship, one of the women knitting. A group of young men and women, some in tennis shorts, pose for a photograph inside one of the ship’s lifeboats. Various shots of the passengers follow. Boats are moored beside a wooden jetty. General view of a grand church. A crowd there surrounds a tour guide. Travelling shots follow from a boat of a waterfall, and of passengers in the boat. General views follow on a cloudy day of islands out at sea, tourists standing outside a summer house, a shoreline, hills and a jetty. Two women are seated on a stony beach. General view of a white wooden church and cemetery. [Reel 2] A group of holiday makers cross a street to their hotel, with its street side balcony. Two women pet kittens. The women walk through a grotto-like park with a pond and ducks. General view of a motor car parked lakeside, palm trees in the background. A man is standing in the middle of a sprinkler system in some gardens. General view of a cascade. A man rows a woman across a pond. A couple take a ride in a sledge (taxi?) downhill. Overhead shot of four holiday makers on a veranda, relaxing. Portrait shots of two of the women. General views of a town where a waiter is working at a restaurant, horse-driven sleds are making deliveries, and a carriage-sledge is pulled by oxen. People stroll on a tree-lined pedestrian street, and the sun glints over the sea. Travelling shots from a ship of a coastal town and mountains. A crew’s lifeboat drill takes place on board ship. There are shots of life on deck, crew cleaning, passengers playing volleyball, and the cruise liner’s funnel.  At another destination, passengers are ferried ashore. On the cruise liner, passengers play mini-golf on the sports deck. Portrait shot of a man on deck. A tug boat sails close to the ship, a coastline in the background. Two women look out from the ship’s deck. A man displays his souvenir sailor doll to camera. General view of a busy dock. [Dufaycolor footage] Passengers relax on the deck of a ship. There are shots of the sea, the ship’s funnel and passenger life. Small boats float beside the ship, one piled high with basket chairs. Now on land, there’s a general view of the Savoy Hotel’s gardens and the sea view from the hotel. The next sequence shows general views of a town square with a fountain, gardens, and a nearby landscape, intercut with close-ups of flowers and tropical plants, and a woman in a garden chair knitting, with further shots of a family relaxing in the gardens. Two local women carry baskets of flowers on their heads. Portrait shots of local women, not smiling. Exterior shot of the Savoy Hotel and a location shot of the hotel perched on a cliff top, a swimming pool beside the sea. Oxen pull a carriage in a local festival. Holiday makers are sunbathing and having fun in an outdoor swimming pool. Women are selling flowers in a street, some carrying baskets of flowers on their heads. The sun sets over a landscape. A girl floats in a pool in an inflatable ring. Travelling shots follow from the ship. Overhead shot of customs officers on a quayside. A crowd of holiday makers wait to disembark from the ship. General views of island life, people disembarking from a boat carrying holiday makers ashore, and traders trying to sell wares to tourists from boats. General views of the cruise follow.