Seventy five year old photographs ... Roll #16 Vienna (a fitting end)

Thank you for the efforts here, Keith.
Traveling though time is very interesting. I look at faces and I start to think ... they were alive. Now, they are not?
 
Keith -- I've just looked through all 16 threads in this series, and am astonished and impressed. Thank you for sharing your labors w/ us. This is a wonderful time travel around the world (I'm particularly impressed w/ the photos from Indonesia and Australia), and it has a certain poignancy since we know that the world would soon be engulfed by WWII. I appreciate Ms. Mendl's eye, and your skill and effort in bringing her to us.
 
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The Phyllis McDuff book excerpt states that she first arrived in Sydney from Austria in '39, possibly "on the run"

A movie was made from the book:

http://www.gullivermedia.com.au/slate/slate.php#landgirlprincess

The family had things to hide, and they are probably not in these photos, although the photos are nice travel photos, and Keith has certainly done an awesome development job on them.

Bingley said:
I thought these photos were from the 1930s, before WWII.
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Outstanding effort, Kieth. I hope you and the owner of the negatives can figure out how to share and profit from your work. He/she may own them but you did all the (excellent) work.
 
Wonderful of YOU Keith to Spoil us !!!
Thank YOU
Its made me Appreciate Old Screwmounts
& Retro Photography even More

Best - xo - H
 
Sadly its all over...

It has been an amazing journey.

Thanks for all the hard work that went into this Keith.
 
ampguy said:
The Phyllis McDuff book excerpt states that she first arrived in Sydney from Austria in '39, possibly "on the run"

A movie was made from the book:

http://www.gullivermedia.com.au/slate/slate.php#landgirlprincess

The family had things to hide, and they are probably not in these photos, although the photos are nice travel photos, and Keith has certainly done an awesome development job on them.
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It's really interesting Ted ... I've been skimming through the book again trying to work out some of the time frames and often Phyllis's descriptions don't quite match what I've surmised by looking at all of these photographs. Given the quality of some of the shots of Bettina in these rolls I'm puzzled as to why Phyllis never chose to have these rolls examined for content and use some of the images for her book.

She only mentions one world trip her mother embarked on and that was one that started in London (leaving from Southampton) in 1937 and went throught the Suez Canal down the coast of Africa ... and it was on a cargo boat apparently. That leaves the world trip that we have seen, unaccounted for totally in her writings. The photos we've seen of her in New Zealand and in Australia are obviously not those of someone on the run!

Her sister Lucie emmigrated to NZ in 1932 so it's likely that the shots of Bettina in NZ were taken before her reported African trip of 1937 and the decision to return there in 1938/39, to take the back door into Australia so to speak, was legitimized to those who may have wondered back in Europe by having a relative living there.

The trip that we have seen parts of obviously started from Canada because we know the routes the Canadian cruise liners of the time took and they are exactly where the rolls of photos have taken us.

I need to go and have a chat to Phyllis as soon as I can arrange it ... she lives on the outskirts of Brisbane apparently!

As for making a film of her life based around the book ... what does it matter? I've never known the movie industry to let the facts get in the way of a good story! :p
 
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As for making a film of her life based around the book ... what does it matter? I've never known the movie industry to let the facts get in the way of a good story! :p
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That sure is the truth!

None of us can know at this time, and no one may ever, but I wonder how much of her mid-30s life had to be downplayed due to her dis-favor with Nazi Germany?
 
oftheherd said:
That sure is the truth!

None of us can know at this time, and no one may ever, but I wonder how much of her mid-30s life had to be downplayed due to her dis-favor with Nazi Germany?
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The final paragrah of Phyllis's book where she describes her feelings about not knowing so many things about her mother's life is interesting.

I know exactly how she felt now but I do feel that if Phyllis and I sit down over a few cups of tea one day we may be able to fill in some gaps. If not it doesn't really matter because I, like her, have had my life enrichened by Bettina Mendl ... and also like Phyllis, maybe I have found out all I needed to know!
 
What a fitting last roll on this journey...we get to meet the traveler and her beginnings...
One must wonder just how many rolls of film she/they did shoot...we might being seeing just a sliver of their life through these rolls...mind you I'm not complaining what we were privileged to see was a remarkable journey for all...
 
Fabulous series of photos! & I agree this series closes the lid on a fine adventure throughout the continents. This really makes one wonder in 75 years will a digital cd actually be viewable or will something come along to take it's place! One nice aspect about the technology today is that with a 75 year old film it works!
 
Sad to see it end Keith. It was like opening a Christmas gift with each roll of film. Thanks so much for posting this series. It was great.
 
great great series Keith.

you should definitely mee up with the dughter... if nothing else she would love to have these negatives printed for memory.
 
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