Worlds Apart Britain on Film

New buildings seem to be going up

of a European community now scattered all over the city.

It will even have a heliport

the effects of the Common Market

The barriers are almost down and the goods move freely across frontiers

The Common Market is changing

Nowhere on the changing face

is the drama of human progress

roads are being cut through woods

right into the lives of once self-contained little communities,

Today, it's a place where new ideas

in the developing technique

Time is catching up with the men

They know, these wood-cutters, just what it's like to battle

every day of their working lives

They belong to one of the most famous of the world's forest

communities, at Berchtesgaden

Their locally-built horned sledges

weighs more than a hundredweight,

and it takes skill and nerve to steer a crushing load of logs

at more than 20 miles an hour.

One mistake and you're wood pulp.

a quarter of the population,

were still working in wood.

Today, hardly 500 make a living

But when he's not working in the forest, many a lumberman can still

turn skilled hands to figure carving, with the family joining in.

With well-paid jobs available

apprenticeship without wages

And in our motorcar civilisation,

There's still work to be done on the sledges - even now, the only

at these heights in winter.

And it takes a lumberman's physique

on a 12-mile slide across the lake

For the rest of the year, he fishes, hunts, grows enough potatoes

But with the new motor roads that have been pushed into Lapland

The family car, in the form of a two-seater motor sledge

A product of the mid-20th century,

the ways of a people who have used the reindeer sledge for 2,000 years.

the Lapp reindeer farmers get together for a day's sport.

The sport of reindeer racing In this case, in northern Finland.

To own the fastest reindeer in

First, individual times are taken

with the rider towed on skis.

but a steady 20mph is kept up.

After the day's fun, the serious

During the annual round up,

Lapp women work the reindeer

This woman owner, Katrina, a widow,

which came from near Petsimo,

Her tribe were driven into Finland by advancing Russian troops at the end of World War II.

When the branding and gelding

and no instruments other than human teeth were used for gelding,

The herd is sorted, identified

this separation of reindeer

has gone on for thousands of years

It's the big event of the year

the reindeer is everything.

It feeds him, it clothes him and up until a year or so ago,

it pulled his sledge across

And even the dustmen cast-off.

It's guarded from the Adriatic storms by a broken sand spit

that starts with the holiday town

whose beaches attract 50,000 people

Yet, at the mercy as it is,

the world's most concentrated

visited, it's said, by two million a vast fortune to stand and stare.

Tourism is its greatest industry

but, every year, on the big tides,

Venetians are used to the sight

and bubbling up through the paving stones of the square itself.

It's all part of the life of Venice,

with the pigeons and the tourists enjoying themselves, keeping dry.

More of a problem than the tides

One extra reason why Venice

is sinking a fraction of an inch

It doesn't really change much,

it's still the most romantic the most loved city on Earth.

Costa Smeralda means Emerald Coast.

35 miles of clear green sea

Well, almost deserted beaches.

bought this stretch of coastline

and is developing it as Europe's

Their master plan calls for the construction of more than

and 35 to 40 hotels by the 1970s.

electricity and telephone cables

It's estimated that eventually

Royalty, film stars and people who can afford £6 to £10 a day

are enjoying the Mediterranean sun

In the evenings, whether at hotels, clubs or barbecues or beach houses,

Most of the visitors are from England, Germany, France and Italy

Nepal, an unaligned neutral,

to the Nepalese capital Kathmandu,

Roads that have helped open up

that, less than 20 years ago, was practically inaccessible.

Kathmandu - one of the most magnificently adorned cities

Holy to Hindus and Buddhists.

but only open to the outside world

when the present king's father

But into this ancient culture

The old time-traveller did,

Today's tourist will only spend his money in a home from home,

so up go the air-conditioned hotels

in that "might be anywhere"

and in to them go the manifold

A new breed of people comes willy-nilly into existence.

this smart, young casino employee

in forms like this absurd devil

all manner of game abounds.

It's more dangerous than it looks.

On this day, the Dalai Lama

commemorate the 10th anniversary

of the bloodily suppressed uprising against their Chinese masters.

Astrologers and priests chose him

as the child into whom the previous Dalai Lama had been reborn.

he has kept his scattered people

utterly united in their faith

But soon the speeches give way

that are one more way of preserving

Can exiled Tibetans preserve

become absorbed into the ways

the Dalai Lama waits in exile.

An exile that may well endure

It's Manly Beach, one of the world's great surfing beaches,

not far from the spot where

And even in those hard-living days,

landings could hardly have been less comfortable than this.

are reaching Australia's shores at a rate of around 135,000 a year,

and finding their way even into such traditional Aussie strongholds

And here's a present day reminder

and be able to speak English,

Migration on the scale Australia

means a two-way traffic in ideas

a growing cosmopolitan trend.

of ten people are migrants.

Yugoslavs, Italians, Germans, English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh,

30 and more different nationalities.

The migrants who find it easiest

They merge naturally into a new

A country in a hurry to make a splash in the modern world.

High among the snow peaks of the Andes, La Paz in Bolivia.

that new arrivals feel giddy.

In the high streets of La Paz,

marketing and strolling about,

with the women wearing their

But colourful travel pictures can't hide the great problem of Bolivia -

backwardness of these Indians,

whose traditions go directly back

There is no need for things

The trouble is human stubbornness.

One, the high plateau - icy, unfertile, unfit for human beings.

But most of the human beings

The other is a rich, tropical land,

that falls 12,000 feet in 50 miles

lies a green world where crops grow almost without asking,

and the main business is smuggling

being done down here, and in

In these lowlands, some of the

could be grown, but the results

because the Bolivians don't have

That's always providing the Indians will come down from the cold plateau

and plant and pick the coffee.

This is a scene that made history.

Thousands cheered the Queen

Since then, thousands in Britain have been looking at the map.

This goodwill grew from the British sailors, soldiers and adventurers

War of Independence from Spain

especially in the services.

flies British Hunter fighters.

The country's banking, commerce

There's no doubt about the origin

Chileans are highly conscious of attractive presentation.

British recording artists are tops.

the Queen planted a sapling.

It was a traditional commemoration

It stands today as a symbol,

Will it grow into a sturdy tree

The next few years will tell.