Archival footage shot by an amateur filmmaker while visiting Romania in December 1964.
It contains stock footage of Bucharest, the capital city of the country: traffic (pedestrians, cars, trams and buses) in the streets, Lido Hotel in Bulevardul General Gheorghe Magheru, the Palace of Parliament, the Romanian Athenaeum (concert hall), Arcul de Triumf, Aurel Vlaicu International Airport in Băneasa district (cars parked outside the terminal, aircraft in the strip), and more.
– 0:11: Hotel Lido
– 0:51: Casa Scanteii/ Casa Presei Libere
– 1:11: Romexpo
– 1:35: Cinema Patria Bulevardul Magheru and Hotel Ambasador
– 1:47: Ateneul
– 2:05 Piata Palatului (today’s Piata Revolutiei)
– 2:12 Comitetul Central al Partidului Comunist Roman (the place of Ceausescu’s last speech in 1989)
– 2:36: 1964 GAZ Volga – black – could be Securitate service.
– 3:08: Woman dressed in traditional clothes – Maramures region (she is also wearing traditional “opinci” shoes).
– 3:28: 1965 Pontiac Parisienne in front of Hotel Ambasador
– 3:29: Hotel Ambasador
– 3:34: Linia 83 (troleu) inaugurated 18 April 1958
– 3:57: Hotel Lido
– 3:57: 1965 Pontiac Parisienne registered in Ontario Canada 352-987
– 4:29: Arcul de Triumf
– 4:47 to 5:06: Parcul Herastrau
– 5:08: Aeroportul International Baneasa
– 5:55: Yugoslav Airlines JAT Sud Aviation SE-210 Caravelle
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