| Preparations for Exhibition in Goteborg, 1920s | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 6206 |
| Catalog #: | 494217 | |
| Clip Number: | 494217-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | ON299F | |
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| Location: | G÷teborg, Sweden | |
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| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | EXHIBITIONS: World's Fairs | |
| Description: | "Gothenburgh Exhibition" (This was not classed as one of the greatest of Worlds Fairs but from the look of the buidlings it was no small stuff.) GV G÷te Square, large exhibition/museum buildings -incl. a a building with a large dome at left & a in center BG, the Gothenburg Fine Arts Museum, a really large hall with immense tall narrow arch windows along side; just a bit nearer at the right edge of screen is the Konsthalle - Art Gallery; a few people are walking across large empty square in FG . Shot looking through an arch toward two tall narrow towers (built for this exhibition? there is scaffolding around one) and in far bg a big pillared building. Closer LS of the latter which has a curving collonade front.
GV long pans on the area for exhibition - like most of these fairs, it is a jumble of architectural styles- - spires in various shapes, a tall block with row of gothic arches at low level and the whole side above decorated with modern-looking snowflake/star things; classical style temples, etc. And it's not yet finished; building material piled here and there, workers putting detail on building, man digging a trench, chain link fence, more buildings with scaffolding. Closer shots of statuary atop buildings - - a lion (?) stnding holding weapon, a crown, nude male figures playing horns. | |
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