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Series
- Series Name
- Colour Pictorial
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 1
- Summary
- Pathe synopsis: We’re among snow-clad mountains. Alpine peaks like the Matterhorn, which generations of men have given their lives to climb. But, today, this remote splendour is a tourist’s paradise - with tea-cups and cafe-tables at twelve thousand feet on a mountain top. The tourists have now laid claim to the crests that once mocked the mountaineers. They leave their cars outside Zermatt, the jingle-bell village that looks like a Christmas card. Then they set off to climb the crests - by cable car and cog-wheel railway, by chair-lift and aeroplane. We soar like birds to dizzy heights - without moving a muscle. We climb into the perpetual snow - while sitting down. We travel by snow-cat right under the very summit of the Matterhorn. But then we set off on foot, through the virgin snow, with ice-axe and ice-cool head for slippery rock to scale the final heights. And this brave journey is the exciting subject of a subsequent issue of Pathe Pictorial.
- Keywords
- Scenery and travel
- Locations
- Switzerland
- Written sources
- Pathe Colour Pictorial Lobby Cards Used for synopsis
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Wilfrid Thomas
- Length of story (in feet)
- 640
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Film Archive
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- British Pathe Ltd
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- Web
- https://www.britishpathe.com/
- Phone
- 0207 665 8340
- Address
- 3.29 Canterbury Court
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- Pathe now also handles the Reuters Historical Collection, which includes the British Paramount, Empire British, Gaumont Graphic and Gaumont British newsreels.
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