Mediterranean Story: #1 (1951)
Category: Travelogue
Length: 1:19:40
| Film ID | F16-0752 |
| Film Description | Edited travelogue with narrative titles Inter-titles written by Arthur and Kate Tode (as seen in the film) "Mediterranean Story Sea of the Ancients Maps and movies upon the wall Do not mean a thing at all To those who see but charted spaces Separating lands and races. But movies to Circum's who've traveled far From homeland heath to alien star, Flash back a thousand starried gleams Of deserts, jungles, peaks and streams. For never a Circum's heart but flames To see in movies enchanting names; To us who've circled land and sea, Such pictures are wings of wizardry! "Ka" Stands for "Kate" "Hop" Stands for "Tode" "Ka"+"Hop"="Kahop" Bon Voyage AZORES Sentinels of the Eastern Atlantic MADEIRA The Purple Islands FUNCHAL TRANSPORT [Arthur Tode is carried by two men in a sling hammock] Bum Boat Barter PORTUGAL Home of the Earliest Circumnavigators CATHEDRAL at ALCOBACO SHRINE at FATIMA [Sanctuary of Our Lady of Fátima] Majolica Ware FRENCH MOROCCO Land of Mosques and Markets CASABLANCA RABAT White City of Black Mystery "In a Sultan's Garden" [Royal Palace, Rabat] MARRAKECH City of the Arabian Nights The Bahia Palace DJEMAA EL FINA [Jamaa el Fna] (Trading Place) [Street performers, seen from above, audience is Moroccan] GIBRALTAR Rock of Destiny TANGIER Capital of International Intrigue Snake Charmers, Acrobats and Native Story-Tellers [Bazaar, Marketplace] SEVILLE LA GIRALDA TOWER THE ALCAZAR (Moorish Palace) Balearic Islands Palma, Majorca FRANCE "Toujours L'Amour" MARSEILLES Home of Bouillabaisse THE FRENCH RIVERA CANNES QUAINT ST. TROPEZ VENCE Old Roman Town VILLEFRANCHE ITALY Cradle of Modern Civilization NAPLES and the Road to Rome HADRIAN'S VILLA Built 125 A.D. HALL of the PHILOSOPHERS WORLD FAMOUS FOUNTAINS PISA Cathedral and Leaning Tower 12th CENTURY BRONZE DOORS AMALFI on the Tyrrhenian Sea MOUNT VESUVIUS IN ACTION LAVA FIELDS Buried by the Eruption of 79 A.D. 1900 YEARS LATER! HOUSE OF CENTENARIO Where Flour was Ground and Bread Baked EXCAVATIONS at HERCULANEUM SICILY From Whence the Mafia PHOENICIAN PALERMO GREECE Land of the Iliad and the Odyssey THE PARTHENON CROWNS THE ACROPOLIS THE GLORY THAT WAS GREECE THE ERECTHEUM and its Caryatid-Borne Portico "DESPOTIC GRANDEUR" Temple of Olympian Zeus CAPE SUNIUM Temple of Poseidon ANCIENT CORINTH Temple of Apollo THE PELOPONNESUS Amphitheatre of Epidaurus TRAGEDY and COMEDY Here Enthralled Thousands GREEK GOSSIPS C.O.D. ONLY FINIS PART 1" |
| Video Category | Travelogue |
| Film Creator | Arthur and Kate Tode (Kahop) |
| Topics | Circumnavigation, Tourism, Touring, Azores, Madeira, Portugal, Morocco, Casablanca, Rabat, Marrakech, Jamaa el Fna, Marketplaces, Bazaars, Gibraltar, Tangier, Sevilla, Seville, Spain, Majorca, France, St. Tropez, Cannes, Venice, Italy, Naples, Villa Adriana, Pisa, Amalfi, Mount Vesuvius, Sicily, Palermo, Greece, Archaeological sites, Classical archaeology, Herculaneum site |
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