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Poster for 1940s Ozarks and Louisiana road trip

1940s Ozarks and Louisiana road trip

Ephemeral film · 12 min

Synopsis

Home movie: 1940s Ozarks and Louisiana road trip.

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Running time
12 minutes

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★★★ · Nice Tourist Movie Shot In Color, Circa 1941 · allcarsman · 2023-04-25

Amatuer travel film in fairly good focus and retains good color. Featured locations were selected by a couple traveling in their newish twelve-cylinder 1941 Lincoln-Zephyr three-window coupe, which appears intermittently in the film. Nice shots of Kansas City landmarks, Motor Court footage in Texarkana and other attractions and natural locations. Some footage shows the "Bob Burns House," childhood home of a then famous radio comedian. (He was also known as "The Arkansas Traveler.") There is momentary interaction with a young boy by the woman in one scene. Final footage was taken at Evangeline…

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