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Beautifully capturing the essence of Norway's enchanting fjords, this travelogue was shot from a boat journeying through the valleys. The low position of the boat ensures that the cliffs tower high over the camera, while its slow pace adds to a genuine sense of awe. This film is a good example of the kind of foreign views that would have appealed to British audiences, at a time when travel to such exotic lands would have been only a fantasy for most. Astute to this, the Hepworth Manufacturing Company was never afraid of dispatching its cameramen across the globe. Hepworth was well aware that audiences would expect an affirmation of their imagined ideas of foreign lands and so purposefully portrayed the fjords as an untouched and mystical place.
Norway offers a rather more unfamiliar and intriguing than the somewhat arid land recorded in Hepworth's Canadian Car Ride(1900).
Christian Hayes
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Complete film (2:51)
