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Film contains footage of Rhodes, as well as footage from Greece, including the Marathon Dam, Athens and Sounion (tip of the Attic Peninsula).

Film contains footage of Austria (no Vienna). Czechoslovakia, including Prague

Scotland, summer 1935. North Berwick in East Lothian: Golf; Eric and Maisie are the second and third people shown teeing off. Unloading luggage at the Marine Hotel, by the links. Berwick How (volcanic hill). Stable yard: Eric, Maisie and girl (probably Maisie's daughter by her first marriage, Catherine Parr Strickland) on horseback. Tantallon Castle, with views of Bass Rock; party includes Eric's mother and two sisters. North Berwick harbor and trip to Bass Rock and its lighthouse (Eric's mother and sisters in the boat). Probably the Marine Hotel, by the golf links; Eric's sisters looking from upper window at expensive-looking car, apparently a 1935 3.5 liter "Derby" Bentley with coachwork by Barker. Family group; Saunders' 1926 Rolls in the background. Edinburgh: street; the Castle. Unidentified large country house. Fly-fishing for trout or salmon; Eric fishing with a cigarette in his mouth. A light biplane takes off three times from a cow pasture; Maisie is one of the two occupants on the third flight, though whether as pilot or passenger is not clear. She'd had a flying license since 1929. The primitive airfield, consisting of a shed and a wind sock, may have been the one at East Fortune, 3 or 4 miles south of North Berwick. (The biplane is a De Havilland DH87A Hornet Moth, registration G-ADIS, built with side-by-side seating for instructor and trainee. In 1936, this particular plane, the second Hornet Moth built [production number 8001], would have its tapered wings replaced by squared wings, thereby becoming the prototype for model DH87B, which would be the standard model for the Hornet Moth.) Ruined castle; Eric's mother and one of his sisters; Eric's mother and Maisie; Maisie alone. Marine Hotel again; Maisie and cat. North Berwick from golf links. From car (not Rolls): North Berwick -- headed east on High Street; country road. From car (Rolls): approaching large country house; possibly Rosemount, where Maisie grew up. TS Princess Margaret, home port Stranraer, on Scotland's west coast. This vessel routinely plied between Stranraer and Larne in County Antrim in Northern Ireland, pausing at Bangor in County Down. Glimpse of rising countryside beyond the ship suggests that it's docked in Larne. Rolls, heavily laden, hood open, on waterfront. Houses along Larne's waterfront (most are still extant). In the Rolls, driving south toward Belfast's city hall along Donegall Place. Later, the car appears to be driving north along the waterfront toward Cavehill, but it then turns and heads south passing through various villages and towns; ends up, apparently, at Tramore in Waterford County, Eire, where the Saunders' would reside until May 1936.

Film contains footage of Fox-hunting, point-to-point, steeplechasing.

Film contains footage of Eire.

Film contains footage of Ascot -- probably the Royal Meeting in June 1936.

Film contains footage of Northern China, including Peking.

The film consists of footage of North Berwick.

At the end of 1930 William Eric Pentland Saunders, late of the Indian Army, and his wife, Margaret Helen Saunders, née Inverarity, set out westward from England on a trip around the world. Eric and Maisie embarked on the USS Leviathan at Southampton on December 16, 1930 and returned to England, via Ostend, on about June 11, 1935. They were accompanied throughout by Ivy Vanderplank who was in their employ.

Upon arrival in New York City (December 24, 1930) Maisie bought a Kodak 16mm movie camera. The majority of the films were shot by Maisie, though there are brief glimpses of her in a couple of films, when someone else, likely Eric, took the camera. The numbering of the surviving films suggests that in the course of her trip around the world she produced at least one hundred and twenty-nine reels. She produced another seven 400-foot reels upon her return to the United Kingdom. Most of the films have disappeared, a few have merely not been salvageable. The collection therefore consists of twenty-four 400-foot films, seventeen from the trip around the world and eight from the period after the Saunders' return to the United Kingdom.

The earliest surviving reel shows Peking in January 1932; the latest shows England in the summer of 1936. There are no surviving films from the first year of the Saunders' travels. The majority of the films from the trip around the world refer to the last year of the Saunders' travels -- that is, in the Middle East and Europe in 1934 and 1935.

The Saunders toured Japan until early in January 1932, when they took a ferry to Korea. They made their way overland to Manchuria, freshly occupied by Japan, then down to Peking, where the first of the extant films (24) finds them. The next surviving film (26) begins in Shanghai, where the Saunders party arrived, apparently by ship, during the last phase of the fighting between the Chinese and Japanese (February 1932. The film also shows the group's departure on the USS President Coolidge and its arrival in Hong Kong. Maisie Saunders's films of her party's subsequent travels in French Indochina, the Dutch East Indies and Ceylon and their long sojourn in Australia have all been lost. One film (59) survives from the Saunders's months in New Zealand.

Of stylistic note: many of the films are being shot from inside/on board vehicles. The hood ornaments of their various cars are often visible in the shot.