A promotional film to show various activities and sites to see, which different countries have to offer during a hostelling holiday in Europe. Some of the countries addressed in the film include Germany, England, Belgium, Norway, Switzerland, Italy and Poland; some of the acitvities featured in the hostelling holidays of these countries include hiking, skiing, swimming, rock climbing, cycling, and visiting museums or areas of interest. PART 1 A large group of people are shown gathered...

A promotional film to show various activities and sites to see, which different countries have to offer during a hostelling holiday in Europe. Some of the countries addressed in the film include Germany, England, Belgium, Norway, Switzerland, Italy and Poland; some of the acitvities featured in the hostelling holidays of these countries include hiking, skiing, swimming, rock climbing, cycling, and visiting museums or areas of interest. PART 1 A large group of people are shown gathered together outside, many sat on chairs and some are playing musical instruments. Banners above the crowd show the triangle logos for ‘YHA’, ‘AWJ’ and ‘JYH’. The large crowd watches on as various dance and music performers from different countries perform at an outdoor amphitheatre style venue. More banners around the amphitheatre containing logos from various international youth hostel organisations are shown. Title card - ‘Hostelling in Europe’ Title card - ‘Planned by The Tokai Bank, Ltd. Production: Japan Youth Hostels Inc., Riken Motion Picture Co., Ltd. Supported by: International Youth Hostel Federation’. Title Card - ‘General Supervision by Masai Nakayama Direction & Scenario by Yukichi Yokoyama’ Title Card - ‘Directed by Toshio Shimauchi Produced by Seiji Koyama, Yukio Fujita, Tomokazu Kaneko, Kiiko Yokoyama’ Title Card - ‘Photographed by Tadashi Inaba, Hideo Goseki, Akimitsu Teppozuka Music by Ikuma Dan Narration spoken by George M. Adams, Jr.’ Aerial views of Poland are shown. Intertitle - ‘Cracow, Poland, Aug. 1965’. Street and park views of Cracow are shown, including a banner which reads ‘THE INTERNATIONAL MOVEMENT OF YOUTH HOSTELS UNITES THE YOUNG PEOPLE OF ALL THE WORLD’. Young people of all different nationalities are shown shaking hands and socialising outside on a grassy area. Young people wearing backpacks are shown wandering around Cracow city. A painter is shown painting a building and a scene from one of the busy streets. A large group of young Japanese people are shown walking together in a courtyard, followed by sitting on a wall. Some flags are shown blowing in the wind. A banner is shown which reads ‘1935 Cracow 1965’. Representatives from youth hostels around the world are shown sitting in the audience of a conference room, with other representatives sat on a panel at the front of the room. Some of them are shown standing up to speak. Many of the audience members heave earphones in. A label on one of the representative’s desks reads ‘Germany - PTSM’. An exterior view shows Altena Castle in Germany. A group of young Japanese people enter the grounds of the castle and make their way up to the hostel. Doves can be seen perched on window frames. The Japanese hostellers chat to the European hostellers outside. A sign hanging from a wall reads ‘DJH Mutterhaus, Welt Jugendherberge’ with the DJH youth hostel logo. Rooms in the hostel, such as dormitories and social spaces, are shown. Each contains beautiful dark wood furniture and bunk beds. A painting of Richard Schirrmann (founder of the youth hostels movement) is shown. A grave is shown with his name and birth/death dates - ‘Richard Schirrmann, 15.5.1874, 14.12.1961’, in the grounds of the churchyard at the castle. Hostellers are shown queuing up to pay their respects, holding flowers. Views of the castle are shown. Inside, a choir and strings musicians are performing for an audience of hostellers who are all sat watching. The hostellers clap at the end of the performance. A cargo ship is shown travelling through water; it reads ‘M/S Franz’ on the side. Another smaller boat, labelled ‘Bliershein’ is also seen in the water. Industrial landscapes on the River Rhine are shown, including a steam engine pulling some coal trucks in an industrial yard. Young metalworkers are shown manning machines in a factory. Cars driving down a busy motorway are shown. Many of them have luggage on the roof racks. A campsite is shown amongst the trees. Activities at the camp such as fetching pots/pans are shown. Young people are shown relaxing on the beach and in the sea in their swimwear. Landscapes in the German Alps are shown. A woman is shown riding a horse in the countryside of the Alps; her dog follows along behind. A woman is shown raking the foliage on the ground. More landscapes of the Alps are shown. Exterior views of streets in the small town of Mittenwald are shown, including the Church and artwork on the buildings. Interiors of the violin maker’s workshop is shown. Exteriors show a sign which reads ‘Jahre Deutscher Geigenbau’. German hostellers wearing backpacks are shown singing and walking through the countryside. Another group with guitars are shown doing the same, making their way to a youth hostel after finding a signpost. Mittenwald Youth Hostel is shown. A flag with the DJH youth hostel logo is shown flying in the wind. A woman playing an accordion and a group of young people are performing a polka dance outside. Another group of performers are shown doing a different polka dance, this time in traditional dress, against the backdrop of the Alps. Views of Cologne Cathedral are shown. Hostellers visiting the cathedral are shown admiring the architecture outside. Cologne Youth Hostel is shown. Inside, hostellers of various nationalities are shown socialising. One man is playing the guitar and singing. Children hostellers in the dormitories are shown getting ready for bed, followed by sleeping in the bunk beds. A woman is shown with a baby in a pram - they are looking at the pigeons on the ground in a park. Other young people walking around a park are shown. A statue of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in Frankfurt is shown, followed by a statue of Beethoven. A sign on a house revealed says ‘IN DIESEM HAUSE WURDE LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN GEBOREN AM 17TEN DEZEMBER 1770’. Inside Beethoven’s house a museum is revealed; young people are shown admiring artefacts in display cases associated with Beethoven, such as sheet music, paintings and pianos. A bust of Goethe is shown on a plinth, with a wreath on the floor underneath it. A group of young people walk around the restored house of Goethe, admiring the rooms and artefacts. Views of Frankfurt are shown, including drawings, and also people in the streets. A view of the Houses of Parliament and Big Ben at Elizabeth clock tower in London is shown. British people walking around the busy streets of London are shown. Views of Holland Park are shown, including ladies riding on some horses. Exterior views of King George VI Memorial Hostel are shown. Views of fields and hills in the Yorkshire countryside are shown. Some of the fields have sheep in them; a nearby road shows cars trying to avoid the sheep which are crossing the road. Seagulls fly over the rooftops of Whitby. General views of Whitby are shown, including a weather vane decorated with a ship, the graveyard at Whitby Abbey, the port and the beach. Hostellers are shown walking over moorland and into woodland. They are shown studying foliage and geology in a brook, and others are shown studying items in the shoreline of the sea. They take their collections back to the study room of the youth hostel. In the study room, hostellers are shown using conservation materials to clean up items they found in the sea or nearby wilderness. Some of them are using rubbing techniques to document the patterns of the leaves. Countryside views in Ireland are shown. Hostellers trekking on horses around lakes up dirt paths are shown. One of the hostellers is standing on the ground taking photographs of the views when his horse gallops away. He chases after it as the other hostellers sit on their horses all laugh at him. The logo for IYHA is shown. The man who lost the horse is shown sat down fanning himself outside the youth hostel, with the horse tied up next to him. The other hostellers catch up to him. Hostellers are shown cooking breakfast in the kitchen, including bacon, eggs, tomatoes and onions. Other activities shown include hostellers buying milk from the warden at the front desk, and hostellers eating meals up to a table. A view from the youth hostel on an evening is shown, with the windows lit up. PART 2 A group of hostellers are shown cycling through the countryside, past a white windmill and a lake. They continue cycling up a cycle track between an avenue of trees. They cycle through a village and past a sign post which reads ‘Brugge’. A flock of swans are shown nibbling on the grass, as the cyclists travel over a bridge over the river. They continue cycling through narrow, picturesque streets in Bruges which have flags hanging above. The cyclists continue their journey through the streets of Bruges. The European cyclists meet a group of Japanese hostellers outside Bruges Youth Hostel. They socialise and spend time looking at the sights around them. They can be seen looking over the bridge into the water. They watch a woman making lace, who is sitting outside; the hostellers are impressed. A horse and cart rides past the group. More of the buildings of Bruges are shown. Modern high-rise apartments in Brussels are shown. Two cyclists are studying a map together, next to a wall with a sign that reads ‘opsinjoorke’. A man comes over to help them; he shakes their hands and also looks at the map. A mountainous region in Norway is shown. General views of Norway are shown. A family of two parents and two children are shown walking up to a youth hostel on top of a hill. The triangle youth hostel logo labelled ‘NUH’ is shown above the door. The family presents their membership card to the warden at the reception desk. The family are shown having a meal in the dining room of the youth hostel, surrounded by many other hostellers doing the same. Hostellers are shown hiking through the woods and wilderness. Close-ups of plants, trees and foxglove flowers are shown. Buildings are shown from the Norsk Folkemuseum (Norwegian Museum of Cultural History), including the reconstructed Gol Stave Church. One of the guides is showing some hostellers around. Views of the natural landscapes are shown. People are shown skiing down a snowy mountain, and stopping at the bottom where they help another take off their skis. A group of young people are shown swimming in an outdoor pool in the mountains. In one of the hostel dormitories, one man is shown making a bed and one man is shown cleaning the floor. Outside, one girl is writing in a notebook, whilst a group of boys are shown looking at a map. Views of the mountains are shown. A car drives onto a ferry. Hostellers are also shown walking onto the ferry, and the boat sets off over the water in the mountains. More views of the mountains are shown. Views of the Gornergrat in Switzerland are shown. A horse and cart ride past the railway station. Zermatt Youth hostel nearby is shown; the triangle logo has the initials ‘S J-H’. A group of hostellers gather outside the front door and then set off on their journey down the nearby track. One of them is shown drinking from a water fountain. They carry on hiking through the mountains. Mountain views and animals are shown, including cows and sheep. The Gornergrat Railway is shown in action as the carriage drives past the hostellers who continue hiking through the mountains. More views of the mountains are shown. Some of the hostellers are shown rock climbing, with ropes attached around them. The group of hostellers are shown sat on the ground eating food from their backpacks, including bread, fruit and biscuits. The hostellers are shown walking through snow, further up a mountain. Sparkles of sunshine on water are shown. Views of a lake in Italy are shown. An aerial view shows an Italian village. General views of the town/village are shown. A man plays a string instrument to a small audience of young people overlooking a lake. Views of buildings in the hillside are shown. Ancient Roman ruins are shown in the hills. A sign is shown which reads ‘Via Appia Antica’. Views of the Appian Way Roman road are shown as the hostellers walk along it, and admire more ruins, buildings and statues. Youth hostels in Italy, Denmark, Scotland and the Netherlands are shown. Hostellers are shown sat in a common room admiring a photographic slide. A youth hostel in Poland is shown. Two triangle signs which read ‘IY HF’ and ‘PTSM’ are shown. A large group of Polish folk dancers and musicians are shown entertaining a large crowd, followed by Japanese folk dancers. The crowd applauses. More folk dancing from various countries continues. The large crowd of people, some in traditional dress, from all different countries are shown rallying and dancing with fire torches together. People from different countries are shown saying goodbye to each other in different languages as they shake hands and leave the hostel. A single hosteller is shown walking away down a track with his rucksack. ‘The End’.