Harvard Film Archive reversal positive, HFA item no. 9605. From The Carry Wagner Collection.

Title taken from labeling on the can.

Date is a production date, this film was never distributed.

Descriptive information and timing regarding scene locations taken from a video log of a vhs tape produced from the original 16 mm film.

The owner of an antique store in Greenwich Village, (The Charm Shop on West 4th Street) Carry Wagner traveled extensively in order to purchase jewelry and other items for her business. She recorded these trips on 16 mm color film, leaving behind a remarkable record of the world that she visited in the years following World War II. The daughter of Jewish emigres from Eastern Europe, she grew up on the Lower East Side, and as a young woman became involved in the women's suffragette movement and the trade union struggles that were taking place in NYC at the time. At one point she worked in the Massachusetts mills. During the forties and fifties she began traveling extensively. The seventy reels of color film in this collection range from footage shot in apartheid South Africa, to scenes of bombed out German cities in the immediate aftermath of World War II. Highlights include extensive footage of travel via cruise ship, before air travel became commonplace, as well as footage of Franco's Spain, and Morocco and Algeria prior to independence.

Director, Carry Wagner; producer, Carry Wagner.