60404 1950’S HOME MOVIE “ TRIP TO MALMO ” OSLO TRONDHEIM SWEDEN & NORWAY SCANDINAVIA

This home movie from the early 1950s takes viewers on a tour through Malmo. Malmo is the largest city in Scandinavia, Sweden. It is a coastal city including sites such as the Lilla Torg and the Malmo Castle. It opens with a blue trolley car moving down the city streets (:09). 0:09 A blue trolley car moving down the city streets, a livery typical for all the scandinavian countries’s trams and trolleys.0:14 A typical Scandinavian major city street, what looks like Carl Sunds street in Bergen, balconies.An ‘Annie Get Your Gun’ poster is seen at 0:39 for the film produced by MGM and released in 1950 based loosely off the life of Annie Oakley. 0:54-1:19 Götaplatsen, Poseidon statue from afar, then close-up 1:20 Port of Oslo, view upon the Akerhus Fortress 1:29 Back when Pipervika/Akerbrygge in Oslo received large merchant ships.1:38 Merchant boats on the Oslofjorden were a major food supply means for Oslo back in the day – unloading milk here. Nowadays most islands in the fjord have either private houses or tourist attractions.1:50 Buying fresh seafood directly from the fishermen2:07 Cooked shrimp for the typical Norwegian lunch of shrimp salad sandwich at home, or just eating shrimp directly, like here. 2:40 Father helping his toddler drink from the drinking fountain at the City Hall square, typical Norwegian public phone cabin in the foreground.2:54 Oslo city Hall, completed in 1950, Kronprinsesse Märthas square 1 building behind it.3:00 Slottet – Royal palace of the Norwegian kings3:10 Royal guards 3:35 Slottparken – the Palace park3:43 High school/Trades school School graduates in their graduation year caps going on a visit3:50 Charles XIV John’s monument on the promenade leading up to the palace – the first king of Norway of the Bernadotte dynasty 4:05 View from the Slottsplassen towards center of Oslo and the east 4:18 The yellow buildings of the Oslo University 4:25 Karl Johans street, view from the Parliament building at the eastern end of the Karl Johans/Eidsvoll square 4:35 Oslo Cathedral (Domkirke) and a trafffic cop at the Stortorget (the Great square) 4:50 Building at Stortorvet 2, tram type 143 HaWa, number 7 (Sinsen to Sinsen circular), in the same blue livery as in Sweden can be seen – same livery was used by the Trondheim tram system as well.5:10 more streets of Oslo – Tobacconist (Havannamagasinet) – a huge number of those shops, with the same widely-recognized name, opened around Scandinavia on the turn of the 20th century, but they were not a retail chain, ice cream shop of the Mikado ice cream brand (Mikado Isbar), 5:35 More of the Stortorvet, Karl Johans street. Norwegian militarymen walking by, people buying newspapers, a man with a toddler in a low-riding pram.6:54 Woman, selling strawberries, a local Norwegian specialty and one of the main berries of the country. Flower stalls.7:35 City hall again8:00 Palace park again8:20 A view upon a fjord8:40 Moss city centrer, Moss Bus Station, Norway 9:45 A city *(probably Bergen or Trondheim, by the nearness of the mountains to the city center)10:03 Street with 1900 stone buildings ( Could be – Innheredveien, near Lade, Trondheim – but in 1950 there was a tram line in the middle of it, and I don’t see it )10:07 Wooden rowhouses on an hillside street (could be near Rosenborg bakery on the Rosenborg street or Gyldenløves street Trondheim)10.28 Newly-built private houses in the four traditional colors (could be – Berg /Tyholt part of Trondheim – )11:20 Workers demolishing a building, probably a warehouse near by the city center (could be the Ilen Kirke in the background, as the mountains are just behind)12:28 A newly-built and still unopened supermarket (could be the old supermarket on Egleseter street down by the University garden) 12:49-14:01 Waterfalls and fjørds 14:07 Trondheim , looking from Bakkebru (bridge) towards the old merchant warehouses and the top of the Nidaros cathedral14:21 view from the Bakkebru towards the north/the port 14:33 Trondheim city center A local hotel and café follow within the town area as well as a hat shop called ‘Paris-wien Modes’ (14:37).

15:12 Trondheim Nidaros Cathedral15:42 « A man with an icecream » as it’s called locally – statue of Olav Tryggvasson, the king who brought Christianity to Norway15:55 Local trading stalls at Olva Tryggvasson Square. Tourists buy balloons in the market place (15:53). The End.

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