Wood Carving Story
Series
- Series Name
- Colour Pictorial
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 4 / 4
- Summary
- Pathe synopsis: The lovely Bavarian mountain village of Oberammergau, famous for its Passion Plays, is also the home of a distsinguished school of woodcarving. Students from all over Germany attend this school to learn a craft which has existed here for over 300 years, and their carvings, mainly of a religious nature, are in demand all over the world.
- Researcher Comments
- Title on lobby card reads "Bavarian Wood Carving".
- Keywords
- Arts and crafts
- Locations
- Bavaria; Oberammergau; West Germany
- Written sources
- Pathe Colour Pictorial Lobby Cards Used for synopsis
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- David De Keyser
- Length of story (in feet)
- 227
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How to cite this record
'Wood Carving Story', Colour Pictorial Issue No. 118, 1 Apr 1957. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/120364 (Accessed 01 Feb 2025)