New Glarus Swiss Festivals Collection, 1986-2000

Container Title
Subseries: Miscellaneous and Multiple Topics
Box   2
Video   #865
Log Church Ceremony: “Settlers' Sunday,” 1986 August 17
Scope and Content Note: Old organ music, Christian service, Maennerchor sings hymns, and short interviews with several people after the service.
Box   2
Video   #801
“Live at Five” Television news report on New Glarus
Scope and Content Note: On location news coverage at Volksfest and footage of New Glarus main street, discussion of the Swiss heritage of the town.
Box   1
Video   #803
Swiss vocal and instrumental musical groups, 1989 May 6
Scope and Content Note: Men's choir, alphorn playing, yodeling, and footage of public dance to Bavarian/Alpine/Swiss music.
Box   1
Video   #804
Stills of New Glarus
Scope and Content Note: 13 minutes of video documenting New Glarus signs and buildings that represent Swiss Heritage (i.e. Swiss coat of arms, Swiss-Aire Motel, Swiss Miss Lace Factory). Also, black and white historical photos of the town and townspeople.
Box   1
Video   #805
Still Images of New Glarus
Scope and Content Note: No commentary just a two-minute clip of photos of old maps, early immigrants, illustrations of Gilbert Ott and Schiller. Approximately 10 images.
Box   2
Video   #860
Interview with Millard Tschudy, 1986 August 17
Scope and Content Note: Tschudy is a local historian, director of the Heidi play, on the Tell Board of Directors and acted in both the German-language and English-language Tell plays (same interview found on audiocassette 1).
Box   2
Video   #861
Interviews with New Glarus Community Members, 1986 August 17
Scope and Content Note: Interview with Frida who has played Heidi's blind grandmother for 21 years. Interview with Frida's husband and a woman who directed the Heidi play for six years. Last interview with older Swiss man, Herman Feller Jr., who was the president of the Maennerchor, started Volksfest, and wrote the history of the New Glarus Maennerchor (this interview is also on audiocassette 12).