Home Movies: Oregon, Montana (1960)
1960 · Ephemeral film · 32 min
Synopsis
Crater Lake, shaky shots from rim area driving around rim road, fallen rock peaks in southern Cascades informational signs for Bailey, Thielsen Diamond Lake man throws snowballs at camera roadside snowdrifts driving POVs of southern Cascades, through tunnel and out other side Dexter Reservoir Eugene, Oregon Eugene Hotel (sunset, sign against sky) rural landscapes along US 99 in the Willamette Valley baseball players in small city baseball field, some spectators (good) Oregon beach people on beach, people on horseback heavyset family goes tidepooling; heavyset women showing off their legs heavyset family wading in waves, bare feet in sand rocky coastline, looks like Devil's Punchbowl State Park fishing boats moored, fishing boat going out Salem, Oregon street scenes driving past Oregon State Capitol building zoo heavyset family posing cheerily in sun by trees car camping in trees Corvallis, Oregon Oregon State University Coliseum and campus family (Native American?) in front of small house dark footage of drive through Dallas, Oregon Dallas City Park sign driving through Portland, Oregon, back and forth over bridges with city street shots; a few nice scenes, some overexposed tunnel, US 30 Columbia River frontage road Bonneville Dam Columbia River Gorge driving POVs, long sequence Walla Walla, Washington street scenes, shot through windshield and on street driving POVs through rural eastern Washington (good) directional sign for Newport and Metaline Falls Hungry Horse Dam…
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- Running time
- 32 minutes
- Collection
- Prelinger Archives
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★ · Beauty in them hills · Spuzz · 2016-10-09
Fun home movie of an older couple going through the Midwest and western states. There's not a lot of them in this, but a lot of scenery. The color is quite saturated in some shots, almost as if it was put through the Prisma app.