Summary

HOME MOVIES OUR VACATION TRIP OUT WEST

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Title: HOME MOVIES OUR VACATION TRIP OUT WEST
File Number: ZNE-3 Beta SP
Color: B W Color
Type: Home Movie
Year: 01/01/1950
Description: B W 1940s - 1950s Home movies taken by a family on vacation in the 1940s and 1950s, which includes a long, neatly titled and edited section called "Our Vacation Trip Out West." It's rather dry but there are some decent shots from Yellowstone and other attractions. 00:52:39:00 Color 1950s Untitled home movies, color, 1950s. Lots of people outside a house, posing in groups, suggests a family reunion horses, children horseback riding - summer camp? woman ice skating at Rockefeller Center, New York City carousel in Central Park family at dinner table several middle-aged women on beach with baby young men playing handball, brief woman outside home, a Florida bungalow type ranch house outdoor barbecue in Florida people board passenger plane, EASTERN AIR LINES helicopter on beach (some kind of rescue operation?) strange scaffoldlike helicopter more shots of people posing outside a modest house children playing in miniature swimming pool, kiddy pool, cute flowers in garden another barbecue (underexposed) antique car show MIAMI CITY HALL, PAN marina. 01:02:50:00 B W 1940 "WILLGRACE Presents OUR VACATION TRIP OUT WEST. July, 1940." Neatly edited home movies, with lots of (underexposed) intertitles first section is B W. "Along the Lincoln Highway. OHIO RIVER, East Liverpool, OHIO." Small town on riverbank bizarre clock, the KRAZY KLOCK, its hands spin in opposite directions. "The Navy Pier, Chicago, Ill." Boys fishing from embankment. "Wedding Party." Brief WS of people on sidewalk after a wedding. "A Fountain on the shores of Lake Michigan, Chicago, Ill." Elaborate public fountain with tall spray. "We hit the Trail. Hinckley, Illinois". "Mississippi River, Clinton, Iowa." Small suspension bridge. "Missouri River, Omaha, Nebraska." More bridges. 01:06:08:00 Color 1950s "Our Vacation Trip" continues in color. Signs, FATHER FLANAGAN'S BOYS' HOME BOYS TOWN, POP. 275. Very WS of cow rubbing its head on the ground in empty field. Sign, HELL'S 1 2 ACRE rock formations at Hell's Half Acre, Wyoming. "The Bighorn River, Canyon, Wyo." Western landscapes. "The Shoshone Canyon Dam. Cody, Wyoming" Yellowstone footage: "The Sylvan Pass The Yellowstone River The Yellowstone Canyon from Artist Point The Lower Falls." "Rocky Mountain Grizzly Bears." Well, okay, but they're very far away. "Uncle Tom's Trail to the bottom of the Canyon." "The American Black Bear." Classic shot of bear climbing on car, while some dummy gets out of his car to take a picture. "Mr. Grizzly Bear." A big guy, walking on the side of a road. "The Tower Falls, northern end of the Yellowstone Canyon." Waterfall. "The East Wall of the Yellowstone Canyon near Tower Falls." "Mammoth Hot Springs." "Norris Geyser Basin." "Excelsior Geyser Crater." "Old Faithful." Spouting, of course. END PART ONE. 01:13:07:00 Color 1950s PART TWO. GRAND TETONS. "Mountain Scenes below Jackson's Hole Wyoming." Wildflowers. "COLORADO." "ROCKY MOUNTAIN PARK." "Scenes Along Trail Ridge Road." Chipmunks. "THE GARDEN OF GODS. Colorado Springs." "The Kissing Camels." Unimpressive natural rock formation. "Steamboat and Balance Rock." "THE SEVEN FALLS. South Cheyenne Canyon, Colorado." Grave site of poet Helen Hunt Jackson trout in stream. "The Sunrise over the Plains from Pikes Peak." Crude attempts at time-lapse photography, sunrise. "Pikes Peak Forget-me-nots." Road sign, BOTTOMLESS PIT. "WILL ROGERS' Shrine of the Sun. Cheyenne Mountain, Col." Plaque, "WILL ROGERS 1879 - 1935, `I NEVER MET A MAN I DIDN'T LIKE.' "The Broadmore Hotel. H.Q. of Mr. W. Willkie, Republican Candidate for President." "We take a last look at Pikes Peak before we head for home." The End.
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