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Title: AUSTRIA: GATEWAY TO THE “SHANGRI-LA” OF EUROPE

Reference number: 10168

Date: 1957

Director: filmed by Ernest Tiernan

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 16.14 mins

Description: Holiday footage of a train journey to Austria, including scenes in Innsbruck and the surrounding mountains.

For other films by Ernest Tiernan please see refs. 7366, 7367, 7368, 10165, 10166 and 10167

Shotlist: Austria Gateway to the “Shangri-La” of Europe; a man with binoculars look into the far distance; an Ernest Tiernan production; arriving at a train station; travelling through a mountain valley; in villages with panning shots of the buildings and surrounding rural areas; views of a large lake; views of a cityscape, showing ships, parks, gardens; [not all subtitles recorded as they’re fuller versions of the list of film contents recorded below]; one can travel by funicular railway to [the] Hungerburg (1,000 ft. above Innsbruck); scenes of a funicular and views of the city and rural areas as seen from the funicular; and from there to the peak of Hafelekar (7,000 ft. above Innsbruck), by cable-car;

[index of film item contents in can]: Austria - Gateway to the Shangri-La of Europe (1957) - train journey to Innsbruck beautiful capital of Austrian Tirol, Obsteig village, Igls village, Pertisau village, lake Achensee 1,000ft up in the Austrian mountains, funicular railway, Innsbruck, Mariabrunn hotel, Hungerburg, Innsbruck, Tirol, Hungerburg mountain towering above Innsbruck