Nomadie (1931)

This travelogue documentary includes scenes in Norway, Denmark, Germany, and Sweden: Norwegian infantry trains on skis, a cable railway in Bergen travels to a mountaintop, an old-fashioned Norwegian wedding is shown, a beautiful trip through fjords, a polar bear hunt and bass fishing at Lofoten, footage of an experimental flight of the giant Dornier Do-X seaplane, many sites in Copenhagen, the Kronberg Castle where Shakespeare's HAMLET is set, the statue honoring Danish writer Hans Christian Anderson, located in his birthplace of Odense, scenes of Danish storks, the making of wooden shoes, Rabild National Park, a German celebration of the evacuation of the Rhineland by the French with Paul Von Hindenburg (president of the Weimar Republic) addressing the crowd, a giant zeppelin, flax production, and Bavarian folk dances are shown, the many waterways in Stockholm, Sweden, a harvest festival, as well as scenes of Laplander life.