# 1997 VHS • Beautiful Cities of the World: Prague 60 FPS

Beautiful Cities of the World: Prague is a travel documentary VHS program running approximately 53 minutes, presenting Prague through a combination of architectural survey, historical narrative, and cultural commentary. The program opens with verses by Czech surrealist poet Vitaslav Nezval describing Prague's mystical character, and proceeds through the city's esoteric, political, architectural, and musical dimensions. The 1997 date is indicated by the tape label. The documentary covers Prague's medieval and Renaissance layers beginning with the Street of Gold in the castle district, where Franz Kafka lived at number 22 in 1916, and where a house called At the Last Lantern is described in legend as visible only on certain nights. The program traces Charles IV's 14th-century urban plan, which oriented streets along solstice lines following esoteric astronomical principles. The Old Town Square is surveyed in detail, including the Tin Church, the Minute House with its Renaissance graffiti depicting biblical and allegorical scenes, and the town hall's astronomical clock dating to at least 1410, with its hourly procession of apostle figures, allegorical figures representing vanity, greed, and death, and a lower calendar dial illustrating country life by month. The Hussite reform movement led by Jan Hus, rector of Charles University, is covered, including his execution by burning in 1415 and the large statue that now dominates the square. Nerudova Street leading to the castle is…

- Kind: Film
- Year: 1997
- By: The Vista Group®
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/TheVistaGroup-BeautifulCitiesoftheWorldPrague)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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