Rambling In Vienna 1936

A tour of Vienna, Austria in the 1930s. Transferred from an original 35mm nitrate print. To purchase a clean DVD or digital download of this film for personal home use or educational use contact us at [e-mail]. To license footage from this film for commercial use visit: www.travelfilmarchive.com

[@kevinblanch]

what a GRAND CITY, JUST SPENT a few weeks, there AMAZING PLACE

[@jack60091]

Just read “The World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig. It gives you a sence of how wonderful the Austro-Hungarian Empire was. Very diverse tolerant. My Grandparents came there in 1910.

[@DasTubemeister]

just back fom Vienna. lovely city.

[@itsjustme4848]

When I was last in Vienna I checked into my hotel and the lady at the desk asked if I had been to Vienna before. I told her I had, but not for over 30 years. She said “This is Vienna. Nothing has changed.”

[@semsemeini7905]

No wonder my mother loved living here. Fled in october of 1937 as my grandfather foresaw trouble which began on March 12th, 1938 with the Austrian Nazis and Germany taking over.

[@lakshminarayanankv5714]

are you of jewish background? are there jews in vienna now?

[@semsemeini7905]

@@lakshminarayanankv5714 Only 8,000 out of 200,000 before the war.

[@Baruch-q4n]

Thank God your dear mum got out in time.I dread to think what happened to the rest of your viennese family.God damn those that harmed them.

[@WhatAreColors]

The central district has not changed, only some new buildings quickly build into place after the war, these new buildings are already old again. The big ferris wheel only has half of the gondolas now. A subway system was built, trams and buses are a few generations newer. Roasted chestnuts can be bought exactly like in the movie. Other than that, globalization has hit like everywhere else in the world and Starbucks starts to replace coffee houses.

[@semsemeini7905]

Men no longer kiss a lady's hand. LOL. Yes it looks the same. I lived there from 1956 to 1958. Except Gaersteners the famous Cafe house moved to the opera.

[@WithoutAnyHope]

It's not as beautiful now as it was then. Wonderful movie, I totally like it.

[@AngieWien15]

Ungewohnt einen Film über Wien zu sehen, der vor den Zerstörungen des 2. Weltkrieges aufgenommen worden ist. Irgendwie ist es irritierend, dass die Autos damals noch links gefahren sind und es die heute üblichen Fußgängerzonen im Bereich des 1. Bezirks noch nicht gab.

[@richrol58]

Du bist leicht irritiert...Aber im ernst wie ist es dazu gekommen, dass es ueberhaupt dort einmal links gefahren worden ist??

[@TheCaliforniaFeeling]

4:07 der philipphof - heute leider der nur noch der helmut zilk platz, toller film!

[@semsemeini7905]

Es war schon. Meine mutter hat Wien geliebt vor 12 marz, 1938.

[@kellogs345]

We had very many starbucks in the last 8 years, but now, nearly all of them are gone, i think there are only 10 left :)

[@semsemeini7905]

LOL I did not see Starbucks.

[@evilrobottolhurst]

That's precisely why I came to this video. I believe the side of the road you drove depended on which federal state you were in, until the Anschluß,. Czechoslovakia drove on the left IIRC and in the 20s the side of the road changed in Italy depending whether you were in the town or in the country. Given that former Dutch colonies Surinam and Indonesia drive on the left, I don't know if the Netherlands drove on the left like Sweden.

[@tenchudjmusic]

traffic was crazy in the city back then!....

[@semsemeini7905]

They drove on the keft side!!!

[@darigaz625]

just a note: nowadays we drive on the right side. i was a bit bemused when i saw the cars in the video driving on the left.

[@Giarola77]

I hope the weren't british lolololololo

[@semsemeini7905]

LOL I noticed the left!!!!! My mother never told me.

[@evilrobottolhurst]

I know, I have driven through Austria. ;) Other countries which changed to driving on the right since 1960 include ex-British colonies Ghana, Nigeria, Burma and (then) South Yemen, although American Samoa has changed to driving on the left. I see that Russia, Portugal and Hungary also used to drive on the left, and the split in Austria was where Napoleon had reached in 1805. The change in Austria, Czechoslovakia and Hungary was called Hitler!

[@fnchrstphr]

@shlomofeuerwerk You are old enough to remember Austria in the 1930's? Did you live there ?

[@semsemeini7905]

My mother lived there until October 1937. She adored it. So did my grandmother and aunt. Until March 12th, 1938. But my mother said you would see beggers then which you no longer see.

[@MrGrandClass]

Great Video! What's the last waltz called (beginning in the ice skating sequence) ??

[@h.m.muller9307]

Not a waltz per se - it's the Fledermaus overture.

[@Heimdall01]

Thx for posting this! I have lived in this city for close to 10 years. Can almost see the shadow of the nazi years that startet only 2 years later.

[@kaluga95]

🇦🇹

[@WithoutAnyHope]

@shlomofeuerwerk You see them in some places, EVERYWHERE; believe me. I know it, I live close to Vienna. ^^

[@semsemeini7905]

I saw one homeless person in Vienna during the week I was there. But I was in the center of town.

[@WithoutAnyHope]

@@semsemeini7905 that is probably more reliable than someone who lived closed to and worked for years in Vienna...? ;-) They are not in the old city, where the sight seeing is happening... But anyway, last year I moved to Switzerland, so Vienna can be what Vienna wants to be. :D

[@abgbddsg]

@dudemantwo No.

[@martinx535]

.... und kein Wort über die Massenarbeitslosigkeit, und die Armut der Menschen in Wien.

[@7forheaven]

@shlomofeuerwerk I don't "compare" cowboys and indians" with the nazis. I just dared to mention how ugly it is and how disguisting, if everything, which is written about austrians is: nazis, nazis, nazis... like every silly person who would only have clichés in mind of/about any state ;-). I hope, you got my point, now. and don't turn it into the exact opposite, as before (thanks for NOT doing so ;-)). so THIS was my point. besides: I haven't been even alive in WW2. for me, this is history.

[@semsemeini7905]

Who cares!!! My family lived in Vienna and had to flee. You want to whitewash the past as if it never happened! No one said you were personally responsible. Very insensitive of you to tell us descendants of Austrian Nazi victims to shut up and forget the past. We never will forget. That is what you want. Vienna is not just apfel kuchen and Mozart. There were also non Jewish victims too who went through hell.

[@semsemeini7905]

You are very insensitive. Clearly your family had a jolly good time with the Nazis. Mine went through hell.