Synopsis
16mm. home movie of a trailer trip vacation through South Dakota and Wyoming with footage of historic sites in national parks. Footage includes scenes of the Badlands of South Dakota, Mount Rushmore, and Yellowstone National Park sites like Yellowstone River, Mammoth Hot Springs, Inspiration Point, Apollinaris Springs, erupting Old Faithful and bears interacting with tourists. Opening title cards read "Fritz's Photologue of a ten month's trailer trip-through the U.S. and Mexico." From our Margaret Conneely Collection.
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Details
- Running time
- 12 minutes
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- Home Movies
- Travelogue
- Tourism
- National Parks & Reserves
- 1940s
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★ · Hey Fritz, hurry it up · Spuzz · 2024-01-23
This film, from a "10 month trip through the US and Mexico", just only covers South Dakota and Wyoming, as we begin in the badlands and basically stop in Yellowstone for the entire reel. We see geysers, waterfalls, and eek, bears! DON'T LET THEM CLIMB ON TO YOU, WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU. Has a date of 1940, and when we visit Mount Rushmore, the monument is just being finished on. The travellers include a man and a woman and a young.. Maybe 8-9? year old boy. Interesting, was he gone for the 10 months? What about school? Good film Would like to see more! Oh! And I'm not sure the signifigance of…
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