Venice, Queen City of the Adriatic [Motion Picture Film]
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- Created Date
- 1951
- Description
Venice, Queen City of the Adriatic, is one of the several educational films made for Encyclopaedia Britannica Films. It illustrates the city's origin, its rise to power and wealth through trade and its decline with the coming of new trade routes. Venice’s survival thrives as an impressive city through adaptation to new conditions. Famous historic architecture of Venice and the industries found in the city today are also included.
Color
Sound
- Creator
Sorensen, Clarence Woodrow, 1907-1982
- Partner
- Recollection Wisconsin
- Contributing Institution
- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
- Collection
- Clarence W. Sorensen Collection - Motion Picture Films
Edna Schaus Sorensen and Clarence W. Sorensen Collection
American Geographical Society Library Digital Photo Archive - Europe
American Geographical Society Library Digital Photo Archive - Publisher
- Encyclopaedia Britannica Films
- Subjects
- Gondoliers
Lace making
Adriatic Coast (Italy)
Basilica di San Marco (Venice, Italy)
Trade routes Europe
Architecture Italy
Grand Canal (Venice, Italy)
Ponte di Rialto (Venice, Italy)
Agriculture Italy History - Location
- Europe
Italy (nation)
Veneto (administrative division)
Venezia (province)
Venice
Adriatic Sea (sea); Italian Peninsula (peninsula) - Type
- moving image
- Format
- Film: 16mmSafety film
- Rights
- https://uwm.edu/libraries/digital-collections/copyright-digcoll/
- Chicago citation style
- Sorensen, Clarence Woodrow, 1907-1982. Venice, Queen City of the Adriatic [Motion Picture Film]. 1951. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/agseurope/id/4080. (Accessed March 28, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- Sorensen, Clarence Woodrow, 1907-1982, (1951) Venice, Queen City of the Adriatic [Motion Picture Film]. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/agseurope/id/4080
- MLA citation style
- Sorensen, Clarence Woodrow, 1907-1982. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/agseurope/id/4080>.