Home Movies: Western Railroad Trip (1930)
1930 · Ephemeral film · 20 min
- Western
Synopsis
Shots of West from moving railroad train. Grand Canyon and old Rim Drive tour buses. Saying goodbye at railroad platform and embarking on train. Embarking on steamship journey on the "President Coolidge." Picnic Very brief shot (1 or 2 frames) of couple standing by sign reading "Dangerous / No Trespassing / Carpenter Irrigation District / Serrano Irrigation District / The Irvine Company" Pasadena railroad station sign Steam locomotive pulling train into Pasadena station Passengers disembarking San Francisco cable cars: looking up Powell Street (or California); of street up ahead out front window of cable car; two shots of streets passing by shot from cable car Art Deco Standard gasoline station, probably on San Francisco waterfront (brief and overexposed slightly) Fisherman's Wharf: crab stand, boats, San Francisco Sardine Association building visible in background; fishing vessel Famiglia Piazza pulling out; view of fishing boats with Telegraph Hill and Coit Tower in background; fishing vessel Miss California pulling in Chinatown, San Francisco: a few underexposed shots airplane spinning propellers Passenger inside passenger airliner; Mount Diablo (?) seen from airplane Aerials Landing More aerials; Mount Shasta (?) Brick buildings, probably in Washington or Oregon Waterfalls Sign at entrance: "CCC - Camp - Narada - MP-2" (in Mount Rainier National Park) Sign: Narada Falls / Elevation 4572 Ft. / Trail to Longmire / Paradise River inside Mt Rainier National Park Airport,…
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- Running time
- 20 minutes
- Collection
- Prelinger Archives