Mary Visits Poland

Titles. 07:54:11 Set in 1939, High school & student to building; interior w/ class as Mary tells about visiting her grandmother in Poland. Kids & teacher listen. 07:54:55 CUs & MCUs Old Polish woman, other men & women in native dress. Car pulled by oxen away from camera, farm yard w/ horses turning mill, ducks by water. Man sitting, ducking as pole comes around. Peasants working garden, digging potatoes by hand. Mother braiding daughter’s blond hair as she makes face. 07:56:39 Girls w/ plaid woolen blankets & all of village walking or in wagons to church. Couple riding bicycles. Church & people arriving in Lowicz provincial costumes. Girls sit by walk. 07:57:23 Wedding w/ bride & groom arriving, soldiers & others. Outdoor dancing in meadow by couples in formal dress costumes. 07:58:10 Young children in school circling & dancing, clapping & singing. Drawing & writing at table. CUs. Older children playing barefoot outside school throwing ball, etc. 07:59:09 Kids on school trip to historical buildings in Krakow. Boys wearing caps. Cathedral & Vistula river. Peasants dancing their local dance in large circle; clarinet, accordion & ??. 08:00:26 Visiting Tatra mountains on border w/ Czechoslovakia & riding cable car over forest into snow. Village in valley & woman harvesting potatoes; sheep grazing w/ kids tending. Embroidery & native costume of the Gorals. 08:02:14 Woman weaving in house making cloth, shawls, blankets. Carved wooden spoons; painted religious icons, boy carving wood & others sculpting statues. Girls making laces in large group using bobbins on threads. Village scene w/ weekend folk dance, boys circle girl to music of bagpipe & fiddles. 08:04:14 Gdynia / Gdansk, buildings, freighter ship leaving. The End. Travelogue; Poland; 1930s; Pre-WWI; Pre-WW1; NOTE: Any one continuous minute sold at per reel rate.