This 1960s color film (Part 3 of 4) created by Wisconsin filmmaker Norman E. Schley offers a travelogue view of Ireland, with music and SFX sans narration, which was intended to be provided during in-person screenings by the touring filmmaker himself. Irish architectural landmarks, natural features, and cultural activities of Killarney, Shannon, Galway, and the Burren region are depicted (TRT: 20:06).
Part 1: https://youtu.be/VFreu5DPwLc
Part 2: https://youtu.be/dj6SLyXB0FI
Part 4: https://youtu.be/5eRHGhLxL78
Focus leader (0:08). A map indicates Killarney. An automobile drives a country road. A sign: “Sea-View Bed & Breakfast.” Colorful flowers in a seaside garden. The Killarney Hills. A natural stream (0:40). A distant horse-drawn carriage. A well-manicured park and the grounds of the Great Southern Hotel. Gardens, trees, flowers (1:42). A wait staff in tuxedos dresses an extravagant spread of meats, pastries, and other desserts. A woman slices smoked salmon. A menu from the “Lower Lake Room” of the hotel (2:53). Schley is served a tray of red meat and uses a small pot to cook it (3:42). Women board a horse-drawn carriage. A driver’s POV driving through the streets of Killarney (5:30). Country roads lined with greenery. The map indicates Shannon. A Boeing passenger jet takes off from a runway. Passengers deplane from an Irish Airways plane using an airstair (6:44). Medieval architecture. A panorama of rural areas from an elevated vantage point (7:21). An outdoor dog breeder’s show. Corgis compete. Judges watch from a table covered in trophies (7:55). The map indicates Ennis. Irish school children (9:05). Teenage boys in portrait. A sign: “Houlihan’s Handwoven Tweeds Made & Sold Here.” A young weaver works briskly at a loom (10:14). Women shop for tweed fabrics (11:31). An accountant’s office (11:44). A milkman pets his horse, then drives down a narrow street. A Bank of Ireland location. A shop selling brooms, buckets, bags. Shoppers examine a cloak (12:00). Homes and garden pathways. The banks of the River Fergus. An interview with an elderly man in the importing business who enjoys fox hunting and his daughter, who is in secretarial school (13:35). A man in a trenchcoat leads a horse through the streets. A driver’s POV of narrow roads (15:25). The map indicates Galway. Rural landscapes and families of farmers tending crops, weeding gardens (15:59). Women peel and cut potatoes (16:52). Cows at pasture. A man on a bicycle leads a horse by a leash. A sign: “Lahinch Golf Club, Private.” A clubhouse. Golfers on a course lined with clover. Teeing off from a seaside hilltop (17:37). Children at the beach play in thick, wet sand. A sign: “Cliffs of Moher.” Tourists at a scenic Atlantic Ocean overlook at the southwestern edge of the Burren region in County Clare. O’Brien’s Tower (18:38). A nearby town. A shipping freighter, the “Heddernheim,” and a silo (19:35).
In addition to making travelogue films, Norman Schley was an accountant, insurance salesman, and the proprietor of three camera shops in Waukesha, WI. He founded his vacation film industry “Picturelogue, Inc.” with the creation of “Schley Ride to Florida” in 1943, and continued making vacation films for three decades.
