Wood Carving Story

Series

Series Name
Colour Pictorial

Issue

Issue No.
118
Date Released
1 Apr 1957
Date recorded
1 Mar 1957
Length of issue (in feet)
756
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Shop Window Bubble Bath
  2. 2Bottle Top Animals
  3. 3Fabric Story
  4. 4Wood Carving Story

Story

Story No. within this Issue
4 / 4
Summary
Pathe synopsis: The lovely Bavarian mountain village of Oberammergau, famous for its Passion Plays, is also the home of a distsinguished school of woodcarving. Students from all over Germany attend this school to learn a craft which has existed here for over 300 years, and their carvings, mainly of a religious nature, are in demand all over the world.
Researcher Comments
Title on lobby card reads "Bavarian Wood Carving".
Keywords
Arts and crafts
Locations
Bavaria; Oberammergau; West Germany
Written sources
Pathe Colour Pictorial Lobby Cards   Used for synopsis
Credits:
Commentator
David De Keyser
Length of story (in feet)
227
Story extras:
Film clip

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