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Amateur Travelogue Film Trip to Southern California, Disneyland & Catalina Island Xd6071 (1962)

1962 · Short film · 27 min

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This untitled color, amateur made travelogue film from 1962 chronicles a family’s trip to and around Southern California via train from Burlington, Vermont. The film features first hand footage of the family’s time at Disneyland, on Catalina Island, and enjoying the city and beaches of Los Angeles. Note: the music used in the film was selected by the filmmaker. (Unfortunately, we don't know the name of the family featured in this film!)Travel pamphlet “Getting There is Fun…Via Burlington” (0:07). Grassland and tree-lined mountain sides contrast orange exterior of passenger train as it passes through the Rockies and canyon of the Sierras (0:56-3:10). Monochrome gray crowd of men in suits on train platform (3:23). Interior of Southern Pacific “Pacific Daylight” passenger train as well as views of changing landscape down coast from San Francisco to Los Angeles: arid land, rocky coast (3:27-4:08). Sign for Charter House Hotel on Harbor Boulevard (4:09). Scenes from hotel grounds: tree-lined pathway, quiet pool area (4:35). Kids do diving tricks into pool (5:01). Family greets camera as the walk the Disneyland parking lot (5:34). Disneyland Monorail (5:48). Illustrated map of Walt Disney’s Magic Kingdom Disneyland U.S.A. theme park in Anaheim, California (5:57). Crowded Main Street in Disneyland (6:14). General admission ticket booth (6:18). Horse-drawn street car Main Street (6:29). Back of double-decker Omnibus (6:35). Disneyland City Hall (6:42). Disneyland Main Street Flower…

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Running time
27 minutes
Collection
Ephemeral Films

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