Home Movies: Medicus Collection: California and Alberta (1930)
1930 · Ephemeral film · 33 min
Synopsis
Tia Juana (Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico); San Diego Bay; grounds of Santa Barbara Biltmore Hotel; VS Santa Barbara; Mission Santa Barbara; Del Monte Hotel; 17 Mile Drive, Monterey Peninsula; Bird Rock at Monterey; Monterey lone cypress; nice pan of San Francisco from Twin Peaks; VS San Francisco harbor; Fisherman's Wharf; Golden Gate Bridge towers before construction of highway; Seal Rocks; San Francisco Chinatown; title "Chinatown is very disappointing"; transcontinental train through…
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★★★★ · All this, and a moose too. · Spuzz · 2013-12-30
Trips with The Medicus Family! This very (VERY) leisurely trip which first starts briefly in Tijuana and then very quickly makes it's way through the California coast til it reaches San Fransisco. The film goes by quickly, sometimes way way too quickly, San Diego just gets a passing mention, we go through Santa Barbara and Joshua National Park til we get to some glimpses of San Fransisco. All in all, pretty interesting to sit through with the favorite title card reading "Chinatown Was A Dissapointment".. After that, we go on a train ride to Banff.. I wonder where this started from? Some nice…