Subseries: Heidi
Note: Also see video #897 listed below with the Wilhelm Tell materials, and videos #860 and #861 listed above with the Miscellaneous materials.

Heidi Play, 1986 June 27
Scope and Content Note: Play performance at New Glarus High School Auditorium. Backstage and dress rehearsal. Footage of downtown - library, church, restaurants, bank, tourists, flags, and Swiss Crests. Interviews with Kristine and Randy, two Heidi cast members; a Heidi understudy and her mother; and other cast and audience members. Opening scenes of Heidi play.

Heidi Play, 1986 June 27
Scope and Content Note: Play from the beginning. Same footage as video #825 only from a center stage perspective.

Heidi Interviews, 1986 June 28
Scope and Content Note: Ten-minute footage of interview with man whose daughter was a former Heidi, and an interview with two women tourists from Illinois (interview also found on audiocassette 2).

Heidi Play, 1986 June 28
Scope and Content Note: Pre-performance organ music, crowd gathering, opening remarks by M.C. Peter Etter, and recording of the play.

Heidi Festival, 1986 June 28
Scope and Content Note: Scenes from the Heidi play and interview with audience members from Minnesota, Iowa, Indiana, Chicago (Ilene and Hans Zeits) during intermissions. Interviews with Linda Schiesser, a vendor selling Heidi dolls; Elda Schiesser, who does Alpine paper cutting and is a Historical Society member (interviews also found on audiocassettes 7 and 10). Footage of musical acts from the Little Switzerland Festival (same festival footage as video #833).

Interviews during Heidi Festival, 1986 August 3
Scope and Content Note: Interviews with Willi, who played Heidi's grandfather for 22 years and is president of the Heidi play (interview also found on audiocassettes 2 and 3). Paul Grossenbacher gives a public tour of exhibits in the Hall of History at the Swiss Historical Village Museum, then gives a private interview discussing history of the Tell play. Also, zoom views of museum exhibits.