Eternal Prague (1940-1949)

Music: Antonin Dvorak and Bedrich Smetana. Commentary: Laurie Lee. Speakers: Beatrix Lehmann, Walter Hudd. Produced by Jiri Weiss. River flowing through Prague, Czechoslovakia. Shots of the city. Bridges, buildings, street scenes, religious buildings, cars driving the streets. Cathedral. Top shot of details of towers and turrets. Stone devils, cockerels and gargoyles. Views of the city from the cathedral. Courtyards, gardens, statues, archways, stone staircases, colonnades. Holy man walks through a courtyard. View of the river and its bridges. Steep steps into the old town. Elderly woman walks through a narrow street. Children run along in a back street. Children play a board game outside. A woman with a washing basket walks down to the river. Men fish from a bridge. Shops in the old town. Market. Moving shot of the stalls, women and men buy things. Balloon seller. Young boys play instruments in the street. C/U of fruit and meat in a butcher’s shop window. Stalls selling shoes an