Today was a wonderful day! We started off with an early morning breakfast. Following breakfast we met out bus that was to take us to our tour bus for the...SOUND OF MUSIC TOUR!!!!
We had so much fun on the tour! I bunch of us went and we learned a lot of interesting facts about the musical as well as got to take a lot of cool shots at locations the movie was filmed at.
Fact One: The sound of music is based on a true story. The Vontrap family was a real family who lived in Austria. Maria moved from the abbey to bake care of the youngest who was ill and grew a bond with all seven children. She was then asked to be their mother. They started performing as a family for money as the Captian was no longer as well off and used touring as an escape from Nazi Germany and their taking over of Austria. When they made it to the United States they stayed and opened a music school in Stow Vermont. They were asked at one point to perform at Hitler's birthday party and declined.
Fact Two: the filming of the movie in Salzburg was only supposed to take six weeks, but it took eleven due to rainy weather.
Fact Three: When the family falls out of the boat in the movie it is real. Thy did one take that looked fake, so they had to re shoot, but Julie Andrew's lost her footing in the second taken. She was supposed to grab the youngest who couldn't swim and people had to jump in after her. She almost drowned.
Fact Four: There were three gazebos used in the filming, one authentic one in Austria and two duplicates located in Hollywood.
Fact Five: the house is actually two different houses located in salzburg. The front is one house, the back with the lake is located at another, and the interior was all shot in Hollywood.
Fact Six: The last seen filmed was the first scene of the movie.
After the tour we took a siesta then went to the hotel for dinner. After that we did one last walk around of Salzburg, Austria and said our fair wells. Tomorrow we are off to Dachau Concentration Camp then Strasbourg, France.
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