- Title: VM-1435A
- Summary: SILENT NIGHT: STORY OF THE CHRISTMAS CAROL: TELLS HOW THE FAMOUS CHRISTMAS CAROL "SILENT NIGHT" WAS WRITTEN IN THE EARLY 1800s BY AN AUSTRIAN VILLAGE PRIEST, FATHER JOSEPH MOHR AND LATER SPREAD THROUGH THE WORLD. FILMED IN AUSTRIA. CHRISTIAN RELIGION.
- Description:00:36:21 - SLEEPY AUSTRIAN MOUNTAIN VILLAGE, CHURCH BELLS RINGING CHRISTMAS EVE, PEOPLE MINGLING IN FRONT OF THE CHURCH 00:36:37 - SMALL TOWN, AMERICA. SIMPLE WOODEN CHURCH, SNOW ON THE GROUND 00:37:01 - EXTERIOR, NIGHT. STAR CHRISTMAS DECORATION ON HOUSE. CHRISTMAS CAROLERS SING SILENT NIGHT, HOLY NIGHT. LITTLE GIRL & HER MOTHER LOOK OUT THE WINDOW AT 1950s CHRISTMAS CAROLERS 00:38:04 - MAP OF EUROPE HIGHLIGHTING AUSTRIA AND THE VILLAGE OF OBERNDORF. 00:38:16 - OBERNDORF, AUSTRIA CIRCA 1953. PROVINCE OF SALZBERG. 00:38:27 - CHAPEL IN ST. NICHOLA VILLAGE. STAINED GLASS PORTRAITS DEPICT THE STORY OF THE CHRISTMAS CAROL SILENT NIGHT, HOLY NIGHT. VILLAGE PRIEST FATHER MOHR WHO WROTE THE SONG. FRANZ GRUBER ?SP, COMPOSED THE MUSIC 00:38:59 - HISTORIC REENACTMENT. OBERNDORF 1818. GIRLS VISIT HOUSES WITH PAINTING OF MARY AND JOSEPH 00:39:23 - BOYS REPRESENTING SHEPHERDS OF BETHLEHEM VISIT HOUSES CAROLING & COLLECTING GIFT OF FOOD FOR THE POOR 00:39:36 - AUSTRIAN MOTHER AND CHILDREN STAND IN DOORWAY SMILING AND LISTENING 00:39:47 - CHRISTMAS EVE CHURCH SERVICE, OBERNDORF, AUSTRIA DOOR OF THE CHURCH STANDS OPEN. 00:39:59 - CU CHURCH ORGANIST TRIES TO PLAY BROKEN ORGAN 00:40:13 - LS CHURCH 00:40:22 - PRIEST WALKING ON SNOWY ROAD TO MOUNTAIN CABIN. PRIEST STOPS TO ADMIRE A DARK FOREST AGAINST THE GLEAMING SNOW MOUNTAIN STREAM. 00:41:07 - PRIEST REACHES THE HOUSE IN THE EVENING, DARKNESS FALLS. RECEIVES WARM AND FRIENDLY WELCOME AT THE DOOR 00:41:23 - AUSTRIAN MOTHER WITH BABY IN A CRADLE 00:41:39 - PRIEST LEAVES MOUNTAIN CABIN, STARTS BACK TO THE VILLAGE WALKS IN THE MOONLIGHT 00:42:10 - EXTERIOR DARKENED CHURCH AT NIGHT 00:42:18 - HISTORICAL RECREATION. PRIEST WRITES USING A QUILL, WRITES POEM, CHRISTMAS CAROL SILENT NIGHT, HOLY NIGHT 00:42:39 - PRIEST MEETS WITH COMPOSER FRANZ GRUBER TO SET THE POEM TO MUSIC 00:43:21 - HISTORICAL RECREATION OF 1818. GRUBER PLAYING SILENT NIGHT ON THE GUITAR 00:43:39 - BEAUTIFUL NIGHT SKY, CHURCH. 00:44:11 - CHRISTMAS EVE SERVICE AT THE VILLAGE CHURCH. BOYS CHOIR SINGING SILENT NIGHT 00:44:39 - WINTER IN AN AUSTRIAN VILLAGE. 00:44:46 - ORGAN MENDER WALKS INTO THE VILLAGE USING A WALKING STICK DOFFS HAT AT GROUP OF CHILDREN 00:45:03 - CU ORGAN MENDER PLAYING FIXED ORGAN. GETS UP, ORGAN PLAYER SITS DOWN AND PLAYS SILENT NIGHT. ORGAN MENDER LISTENS. 00:45:52 - ORGAN MENDER WALKS BACK TO HIS VILLAGE 00:46:06 - CHILDREN WALK UP HILL TO MEET ORGAN MENDER, VILLAGE BELOW 00:46:20 - KIDS RUN DOWNHILL THROUGH SNOW HOLDING HANDS 00:46:31 - SLEEPY AUSTRIAN VALLEY VILLAGE TUCKED INTO THE ALPS MOUNTAINS 00:46:42 - HS ST. PETER'S ABBY, SALZBERG, AUSTRIA 00:46:59 - MONTAGE EUROPEAN CITIES, PARIS, FRANCE. ARCH D'TRIOMPHE LONDON, ENGLAND, BIG BEN. LANDMARKS. AMERICAN CITY CHURCH 00:47:25 - SMALL TOWN CHURCH IN AMERICA 00:47:36 - CU SHEET MUSIC FOR THE SONG SILENT NIGHT, HOLY NIGHT 00:47:55 - LIT STAR CHRISTMAS DECORATION ON HOUSE EXTERIOR PAN DOWN TO CHRISTMAS CAROLERS SINGING SILENT NIGHT 00:48:21 - SCENIC SUNSET OVER AUSTRIAN CHURCH
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1953
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1950s
- File Name: VM-1435A