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Title: OVERLAND TOUR

Reference number: 5879

Date: 1959*

Sound: silent

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 21.51 mins

Description: Holiday film of "Overland Tours" bus journey through Switzerland.

Shotlist: gvs of sea and shore taken from a boat. gvs of cathedral-type building in a square with tour buses outside. Shots of streets and shops. Signs in French and German - possibly Switzerland? (5.09) gvs of cars in a car park. Shot of Hotel Europa gvs of countryside and river with boats on it, one flying a German flag. exts of people relaxing around a swimming pool. (8.13) ints of a church. Shots of motorway taken from inside the tour bus. gvs of motorway restaurant and tourists alighting from bus. exts of the local streets with mountain landscapes. exts of the countryside with mountain landscapes intercut with very dark ints of church. (12.38) C/up of mural on building (13.28) exts of cafe as a small procession pass. Shot of fountain in town square. (15.46) More ints of a church. exts of a castle and mountains. More shots of the swimming pool and the hotel. gvs of a cable car coming down from the mountains. Shot of tourists on the snowy mountains and gvs of mountains. gvs ducks and a swan on a canal. gvs of houses on the canalbank. End (21.51)