Licco Haim and friends hike in Bulgaria

AGFA 8 1939. Title, "Herbst 1940." Title in Bulgarian (Cyrillic characters) with 4 August date, "By car near Simeonovo" (a village near Sofia in the Vitosha Mountains). Licco Max Haim drives a car up a steep incline. Title with 11 August date, "And in the defile of Iskar". Car along the road built by Licco and others in the labor camp. Title with 8-9 September date, "Mussala" (highest mountain peak in the Rila mountains) with Anny, Kete, Pual, Hans, (Licco). [COLOR] Pan of Rila mountain range with a waterfall. Two women at the falls. [B/W] Mountains. A group of five hike the mountain, it is snow-covered at top as they approach the chalet. They hike down Mussala mountain under power lines, and eventually through fields and forests. 01:09:58 Title with 22 September date, "The Chimneys" (rocks in the Vitosha mountains. Another group, including child, backpacks -- Anny, Fredy, Anny, Licco, Pepi with his friend's son. Licco with backpack at 01:10:43. Good CUs. One grimaces as she walks through a bush. 01:11:57 Two men climb up the mountain-side. Title with 29 September date, "Liulin Mountain" with Fredy, Anny, Hans, Kete, Paula, Licco, and Anny. A car in a grassy area where a group socializes in the nice weather. Rolling down a hill, juggling, playing on a see-saw. Filming a spinning see-saw. 01:16:12 [VS, slightly damaged]. LS, mountain. Two people hike. AGFA 8 1939 [8 distinguishes the film gauge of 8mm]. Licco Max Haim (1910-2002), an amateur filmmaker, was asked by the military commander of the 4th Construction Company of the 1st (Jewish) Labor Battalion to make a film of their activities and deliver it to him. Licco did so, but managed to hide one 8mm roll (Film ID 4115), shot in the summer of 1941 to build a road in Lakatnik as part of the forced labor battalion. Most of the Jewish men in the unit had resided in Sofia, mostly in the neighborhood of Iuchbunar. After the summer of 1941, Licco was summoned to work on the repair of cars in Sofia, as he was expert as a mechanic. He married Berta on December 18, 1941.