Watching Österreich in Bild und Ton 1a/35 is like finding a dusty time capsule

If you have some weird obsession with 1930s European history, you might actually sit through this. Otherwise, you're going to turn it off after about four minutes. 😴

Honestly, it is basically a vintage Austria newsreel from 1935. There is no plot, no actors, just real life captured on old, dusty film.

I found it while looking up weird historical archives. It feels less like a movie and more like a time machine that is slightly broken.

The camera just kind of stands there. It watches people walking down Vienna streets with these giant, heavy coats.

You can hear this incredibly loud hiss on the soundtrack. It almost sounds like bacon frying in the next room. 🥓

At one point, there is a segment about some local festival. The people dancing look so stiff, like they are terrified of the camera lens.

It is wild to think about what happened to these people just a few years later. The footage doesn't know what's coming, which makes the whole thing feel super eerie.

This is totally different from the shiny, produced German-language films of the era, like Die Fledermaus. This is raw, boring, and kind of beautiful in its own stupid way.

There is this one shot of a dog sitting near a bakery. The dog looks directly at the camera for a solid ten seconds, and I swear he looked totally confused.

The editing is incredibly jumpy. One second you are looking at a political speech, and the next, it is just... cows in a field.

I don't even think there was a script. Some guy just walked around with a heavy camera and hoped for the best.

Do you need to watch this today? Probably not.

But if you want to put something weird on in the background while you clean your room, it has a strange, cozy vibe. Just don't expect any Hollywood drama.