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Croatia
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These video clips are designed for television documentary, news and
news magazines and are available for immediate broadcast. They
were shot in 2007 showing summer setting even though they were shot
in early September. Sold in one minute intervals with 2 minute
minimum. For immediate response and details, email
details on your specific needs.
Please
note that the mulit-media presentation above shows still
photographs, each of which represents a particular video clip. Below
are some of the video clips available covering various scenes in Croatia.
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Zagreb Trollies
- Zagreb City Sites
- Zagreb Cemetery
- Zagreb open Market
- Zagreb cafe's
- Zagreb early
Sunday morning with relatively empty streets
- Zagreb cable car
- Zagreb indoor market
- Zagreb
Churches (interior and exterior with closeups)
- Zagreb modern buildings
- Zagreb
Hapsburg empire buildings
- Zagreb town square
- Zagreb old town
- Zagreb at night
- Zagreb Sunday promenade
- Plitvice Lakes
showing water falls, closeups, environmentally pure lakes, electric
boats, forests.
- Plitvice lake
area country inn at night with burning birch wood, restaurant.
- Zadar night
life, cafe's, trendy shops, galleries, food vendors.
- Zadar Churches
at night
- Zadar Churches daytime
- Zadar Old Town
night and day
- Zadar open markets
- Zadar medieval center
- Zadar
churches, primarily catholic but also showing exterior and interior
of Serbian Orthodox church.
- Trogir city
center and ancient port
- Numerous clips
of ferry to and from Split to ancient island of Hvar on the Adriatic coast.
- Hvar island
showing the ancient town of the same name. Includes clay rooftops,
medieval town and town square.
- Hvar island
along the treacherous, hair pin mountain roads going through the
rocky island. The route is cris-crossed with ancient retaining walls;
built from the rocky environment. The small plots of land contained
within the retaining walls has their world famous crop of lavender,
which the Hvarians used for fragrance as well as medicinal purposes
including the control of head aches and other purposes.
- Stari Grad or
Old Town, which is the other ancient town on the island of Hvar. This
video clip includes views of ancient churches dating back to 400AD as
well as ruins going back to 350BC. Shows old town, churches, farmers,
and several varieties of pomegranate (formerly referred to as
"Chinese apple") trees.
- Hvar 1km
tunnel shot for entire length.
Finished
edited, ready for broadcast, stories are also available on tourist
and travel topics including Zagreb, night life, castles, ancient and
medieval ruins, and the Adriatic Cost and associated yachting and
cafe scene available upon request.
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Confidential
background
information
on Croatia, for
the press
For
me, Croatia
was considerably different than I had expected. It has to be one of
the more diverse places, that I have visited. It is surprising that
relatively few tourists travel to Croatia.
From my observations, Croatia
is a very diverse country that offers an enormous amount of diversity
and things to do and see. The crime rate is very low, the food is
excellent, prices are low and the people are well educated, and
friendly. The night life throughout Croatia is active, though ends
somewhat early at about 11:30pm.
. Croatia
also offers a number of excellent museums, opera houses, and other
cultural facilities.
It is well worth to visit Croatia.
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Frank X. Didik, August, 2004 |
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Croatia
Still Photo Archive for publication purposes
Photographs
and content copyright 2007
By Frank
X. Didik. All rights Reserved. |
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Croatia
Still Photo Archive for publication purposes
Photographs
and content copyright by Frank X. Didik. All rights Reserved.
Terms
and General Publication Prices for Photographs
Zagreb
(124 Photographs)
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Zagreb,
the capital city of Croatia, with a population of just below one
million, can only be described as beautiful. In the past, Zagreb was
a key city in the Hapsburg and later, the Austrian-Hungarian empire
and as such, boasts an amazingly rich variety of architectural master
pieces. The city boasts over 20 large museums, opera house, a
wonderful, large old town, with many outdoor cafe's and restaurants.
The peaceful and friendly atmosphere is a most pleasant. There is
also a huge outdoor and indoor market where one can purchase a
variety of delicious local and regionally grown vegetables and foods. Photographs,
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Countryside
(59 Photographs)
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Though
Croatia is a relatively small country, the countryside can be divided
into 3 distinct regions. The area around Zagreb is similar to that of
the French wine country or upstate New York. Further west, one comes
to a region distinguished by pine forests and a major lake and
waterfall region. Still further west, is a low mountain range and
beyond this point, the Dalmatian coast along the Adriatic, has the
look of Greece with similar foliage, and somewhat similar
architectural style. While traveling along the Dalmatian coast, you
will almost always be in sight of an ancient wall, building or
similar. Photographs,
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Kumrovec,
Klanjec Click to view
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This
region is west from Zagreb, and has a number of picturesque villages.
There is also an old water mill powered by mountain streams.
Unfortunately, during the civil war /war of independence of 1991 to
1995 (and briefly 1997), the mill was destroyed and had to be
rebuilt. The rebuilt/restored mill does contain many original
features. This mill area was used by the Croatian military as a base
during the unfortunate war and was the target of artillery shelling.
Today, the area is very peaceful, though certain scars of the recent
war are still visible, here and there.. . Photographs,
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Zadar
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(64
photographs) Zadar is this writers favorite city in Croatia. It
is an ancient city dating back to Roman times and has a very large
old town that still follows the medieval town grid. Here you will
find a variety of medieval buildings, with some going back to the 7th
century. Since Zadar is on the Adriatic coast, the climate is dryer
and the temperature is about 7 to 10 degrees F (3-4C) warmer than in
Zagreb. The early evenings hours are by large numbers of people
walking through the medieval streets viewing the various galleries,
boutiques, and enjoying the numerous outdoor cafe's and restaurants.
The sunsets with the Adriatic backdrop, is a very romantic scene. Photographs,
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Hvar
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(25
photographs) The
Island of Hvar and the ancient town of the same name plus the town
of Stari Grad on the same island are major upscale "in
crowd" tourist destinations and are reminiscent of the scene on
San Trope, in the mid 1960's. During the summer months, the town is
visited by numerous yachts, primarily from France. Some of the crops
of Hvar include lavender, which is used both as a fragrance and
various varieties of Pomegranates (formerly referred to as Chinese
Apples). Photographs,
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Split
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(18
photographs) Split is an ancient city
dating back to over 2000 years. Split was the home of the Diaclecian,
the very powerful ancient Roman emperor of the 3rd century, who was
noted for his logistic ability and his method of governmental
control. Unfortunately, Diacleacian is also remembered for his
brutality and his persecution of Christians. Incredibly, a
substantial portion of Diacleations palace, in the center of the
city, is still in existence. It is remarkable that such a large
building could stand for almost 2000 years. In the middle ages,
merchants built their homes on roof of the palace and these homes are
still occupied. Split, a city of about 500,000 inhabitants, boasts a
large harbor, filled with yachts, many out door cafes. restaurants
and a large old town. From the port of Split, one can take ferries to
some of the many beautiful local islands.
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Architecture
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(30
photographs) The
architecture of Croatia is stunning by its variety and the fact that
it stands its own when compared with such great cities as Vienna,
Paris or Rome. For hundreds of years, Croatia was a part of the
Hapsburg empire (and for about 70 years, it was a part of the
Austrian-Hungarian empire) and thus the Hapsburgs built splendid
civic buildings, opera houses, castles, and churches. Further, almost
everywhere one looks, one can find signs of ancient Roman presents.
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War
Aftermath of the war for independence
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(33 photographs) Sadly,
starting in 1990 and going on till 1997, the 5 principal states of
the former Yugoslavia Serbia, Slovenia, Bosnia, Croatia and later,
Herzegovina, were involved in a vicious, almost savage, civil war
during which it is estimated that up to 360,000 people were killed,
including 14,000 Croatians, 17,000 Serbians and most of the balance
being Bosnians. The Croatian involvement in this war, which they
refer to as the "war of independence", was from 1991 to
1995 and briefly again in 1997. Prior to the civil war, Yugoslavia
was a mixed county with Serbian Orthodox, Catholics and Moslems and a
smaller Jewish population, living side by side in relative peace.
Today there is peace in the Balkans and the boarders are open between
these five nations. Photographs,
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Nikola
Tesla's birthplace
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(47
photographs on-line with a large collection of historic Tesla
photographs and documents on file.) Nikola
Tesla was probably the greatest scientist in modern times,
considering that without his inventions, we would be living a very
different life today. Tesla discovered alternating current (AC)
electricity and was the person who conceived and built the first AC
power plant in the world at Niagara Falls, New York (USA). Tesla also
invented the neon light, radio control, radar, the radio, and also
demonstrated the first x-ray, Tesla coils and much more. Nikola Tesla
was born of Serbian Parents in the Croation village of Smiljan and
throughout his life he stated that he was proud of both his Serbian
and Croation background. Photographs,
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