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Pan Am Airlines “ New Horizons: California ” (1968)

1968 · Short film · 8 min

Synopsis

Created in the early 1970s for a foreign audience, "New Horizons" paints a vivid portrait of California in the jet age. The film begins at LAX World Airport, and shows off Los Angeles' freeways, Century Blvd., Sunset Blvd., Hollywood and Vine, Chinatown, the Palladium, the Chinese Theater, San Francisco and Golden Gate Park, the "most crooked street in the world", Fisherman's Wharf, Haight Asbury, Cable Cars, Beverly Hills, Universal Studios, and more. Funny how many Volkswagen "bugs" are seen…

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8 minutes

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