This is an amateur travelogue produced by James Dudfield Rose of the Austrian capital Vienna made in 1936 while he was in the city studying gastroscopy. The film captures many of the city’s main sites including the Austrian Parliament Building, The Palace of Schonbraun and the Imperial Hofberg Palace. The film also captures some of the cities smaller more personal characters such as a woman begging near the Kunsthistorisches Museum on Maria-Theresien-Platz. With World War Two only a few years...

This is an amateur travelogue produced by James Dudfield Rose of the Austrian capital Vienna made in 1936 while he was in the city studying gastroscopy. The film captures many of the city’s main sites including the Austrian Parliament Building, The Palace of Schonbraun and the Imperial Hofberg Palace. The film also captures some of the cities smaller more personal characters such as a woman begging near the Kunsthistorisches Museum on Maria-Theresien-Platz. With World War Two only a few years ago the film also features members of the Heimwehr or ‘Home Guard’ marching around the city. The Heimwehr were a nationalist paramilitary group that opposed parliamentary democracy and who merging with the larger Vaterlandsche or ‘Fatherland’ Front’ the same year this film was made. Title: Vienna The coat of arms for Austria hangs from the balcony of a building. Title: Parliament House Pedestrian, motor cars and a tram pass the Austrian Parliament Building and Pallas-Athena-Brunnan statue in front of it on Ringstrasse. Title: The Ring [colour] A tram travels along the grand tree-lined boulevard of Ringstrasse. [B&W] Two policemen on horseback ride past the Parliament Building. Another tram passes while a car drives in the opposite direction along Ringstrasse. Pedestrians walk past a workman who is hosing down a pathway which run down the middle of Ringstrasse, another tram passes the man with the hose. Title: City Hall The exterior of Vienna City Hall and its spire on Rathausplatz. Title: National Theatre The exterior of the Burgtheater or National Theatre on Univerasitasring 2 with pedestrians and traffic moving past. A couple rush to catch a tram which pulls up outside. Title: The Palace of Schonbraun Pedestrians walk across a large plaza, part of the Schonbrunn Palace at Hietzing in Vienna. A banner hangs from a palace balcony that reads ‘Franz Josef – Ausstellung’. In the distance The Gloriette, part of the palace gardens. People leisurely walk through the gardens towards The Gloriette passing two water fountains. [Colour] One of the sculptures in the Naiad Fountains of a woman looking off into the distance. A South-Asian family, the women wearing sari’s, walk past a colourful flowerbed in front of the palace. Another sculpture in a fountain around which the south-Asian family passes. [B&W] From an elevated position the Palace of Schonbrunn with its gardens and the skyline of the city behind it. Now beside it views of the exterior of The Gloriette. Traffic and pedestrians pass through an archway leading into the Imperial Hofberg Palace, above the entranceway a Latin or Greek inscription. On the other side of the passageway the statue of Archduke Charles astride a horse in Heldenplatz public square. Title: The Palace [B&W/Colour] Hofberg Palace from Heldenplatz and the statute of Archduke Charles. [B&W] A man pulls a cart along a road away from Hofberg Palace, cars pass through an archway leading to another part of the palace. An exterior façade statuary showing Hercules slaying the Lernaean Hydra on the roadway leading into St Michael’s Wing. The monument to Emperor Franz outside the Amalienberg building. A car passing through the gateway of St Michael’s Wing, a decorative ironwork hangs down from the far side of the archway. Title: The Heimwehr Two soldiers, with a rifles slung across their shoulders, stand outside the building of the Heimwhr or ‘Home Guard’. Men with white armbands on their left arms march in formation along a street and them past the Austrian Parliament Building, a two-carriage tram keeping pace with them. Behind them a marching band, a large drum being pulled by a horse and carriage. Two policemen stand in the street watching the procession pass. Title: The Volksgarten A group of boys walk through the Volksgarten, a public park in the Innere Stadt district. Benches along a treelined pathway and at the northern end of the park the Empress Elizabeth Monument. People walk through the well-maintained park or rest of benches. In the rose garden the Franz Grillparzer memorial. [Colour] Various coloured roses grow in flowerbeds; a couple sit on a bench next to a pram. [B&W] Cars are parked outside a large building changes to show the top of The Gloriette through trees. A pond inside the small park with pigeons resting underneath reeds or on the nearby grassy bank. One bird bathes in a puddle near to the monument to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Title: The Ring Again A man sits on a bench placing sticks in piles at his feet. Traffic moves along Ringstrasse while pedestrians use the treelined walkway seen previously. At a café or restaurant, a man leans over a balustrade speaking with someone at an outdoor table. The conversation ends and he waves as he walks away. Title: The Opera House The exterior of the Wiener Staatsoper with pedestrians crossing the road nearby. On the roof the statue of Rider on Winged Horse, on the ground a policeman directing traffic. A line of statues along a balcony of the opera house, nearby two horse feed from feedbags. A wide boulevard with a church with a spire in the distance changes to a man having his shoes polished. The Fuente de Donner fountain on Plankengasse. Title: St Stephens Cathedral Near to the entrance to St Stephen’s Cathedral on Stephanslatz 3 two men and a woman look at a picture or drawing. The camera pans up the exterior of the cathedral to the top of the spire as well as the tiled roof and architectural features. A man and woman ride past on a horse and cart along a busy street. A second horse and cart ride past the entranceway to another building flanked on both sides by four large statues. Title: On the Ring A man sweeps the pavement in front of an iron gate, pedestrians and traffic move past him. A man buys and reads a newspaper from a newspaper stand. Two women stand either side of an iron gate, several boxes are stacked near the older woman. A dog wearing a muzzle wonders the street returning to the two women who maybe selling chestnuts or equivalent. A woman sits in a bench plays with a small dog. Title: Maria Theresa and National Museum The Maria Theresa Monument and Kunsthistorisches Museum on Maria-Theresien-Platz. A man gives a woman holding a small child some coins, he walks away as she counts what he has given her. In the near distance the Triton and Naiads Fountain changes to member of the Heimwhr marching past followed by their marching band. At the front of procession several older men, one holding a flag or banner. The procession makes a left turn heading towards the Hofberg Palace. Through a gateway a statue in the near distance followed by a man sitting in a bench patting his dog sitting at his feet. End title: The Danube From a moving train the River Danube winding through a rural landscape. A steam locomotive pulls the train passing a castle built on a mountainside. The train continues to follow the Danube. Title: Kreutzenstein Castle Burg Kreuzenstein castle near Leobendorf in Lower Austria. A man walks along a wooded road turns and looks back at the camera. Carrying his jacket and a Tracht hat he approaches the portcullis leading into the castle besides which a woman is standing. He sits beside a wall to lights and smokes a cigarette. A group of visitors, including the man seen previously, crosses a mini-drawbridge and through a doorway into the castle appearing on the other side through a stone doorway. The inner courtyard of Kreutzenstein Castle showing some of the architectural feature’s changes to exterior views of the castle and a stone carving of a figure on a decorative wall. A statue of a seated figure believed to be Karl Marx Title: Karl Marx Hof The Gemeindebauten or municipal housing complex of Karl-Marx-Hof in the Heiligenstadt neighbourhood of Vienna. Two older women stand chatting outside an entrance and a lorry drives under a large archway. Title: The Danube Canal Traffic crosses a modern bridge built over the Danube Canal changes to a fountain in a park. Two boys relax on a grassy hillside, one reads a newspaper the other plays with two dogs. Back at the canal two men carry a large basket down to the riverfront where they fill it with live fish taken from one of several dozen tanks there. The basket is taken back inside a processing factory where the fish are dropped onto a table and are sorted by two other workers. A selection of fish are dropping into a wooden bucket beside the table. Another worker stands inside a large tank next to the sorting table and uses a net to catch more fish which he drops onto the table. The fish in one of the wooden baskets writhe and splash about. A dog with a muzzle hanging down from its face walks near a fence, a man is asleep on a bench. Another bridge crosses the Danube changes to a man feeding pigeons along the riverside. Trams and pedestrians pass along the busy boulevard behind him. Title: The Cathedral of Karl The Rektoratskirche St. Karl Borromus, commonly called Karlskirche, on the southside of Karlplatz changes to the golden statue of Johann Strauss in Stadgtpark. Four small children play together in a nearby sandpit, the boys wear traditional Lederhosen. A bust of Sebastian-Kniepp-Denkmal changes to views of the park and a musician playing an accordion. A photographer prepares to take a photograph using a camera on a tripod, next to him images of his work and about it the words ‘pass-bidder’. Standing next to him, possibly the subject of the photograph, three women looking down on a baby in a pram. Pigeons flock around a woman who is feeding them, two women stand nearby watching. She holds out her hand and the pigeons land on it to take the food. At a railway station a BBO 214 class 2-8-4 express train steam locomotive waits to depart, a second passenger train departs from the next platform. A member of the station staff walks past the engine changes to James Dudfield Rose standing beside the engine smoking a cigarette. The train departs the station and a passenger onboard waves a handkerchief to someone on the platform. End title: The End