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Ephemeral film · 16 min

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Running time
16 minutes
Collection
Prelinger Archives

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★★★★★ · Short But Sweet · anet54 · 2013-12-22

Very nice little movie of a road trip from somewhere in Arizona to Disneyland in around 1957. You'll see a tiny new housing development, a Mission in California, complete with hummingbird film, and a nice succinct group of films of a very early Disneyland. I really enjoyed watching this. Plays right into my childhood.

★★★★★ · Americana · NoiseCollector · 2012-08-09

This is what I will tell my grandchildren it was like before the decline of western civilization. Feel all the racism, sexism, and homophobia in the grains of the film? Ahhh... the good old days of road trip lynchings and prejudicial hatred... Seriously though, love the old colored film... and by colored I meant I am a klansman of course. Ask any of my jewish friends that I carpool with. Sorry, I cannot stop kidding around... this is really cool footage. Mountains, open roads, and a theme park built by an antisemitic ancient alien reptilian.... there I go again.