Over Mountains Over Valleys

The Matica slovenská a mostly governmentsponsored cultural academic and archival institution employed Karol Plicka 18941987 as its ethnographer who was able to make documentary shorts from about 1926 He obtained funding from the Presidents Office in 1928 to produce an hourlong documentary about village life Through Mountains and Valleys Po horách po dolách It was awarded a Gold Medal at the International Exposition of Photographic Art in Florence and received an Honorable Mention at the International Venice Film Festival in 1932