[Home Movies: "California and East Travels"]

[Home Movies: "California and East Travels"]

Summary: family western train trip. Tarmac POV at an airport, looks like San Francisco airport. Passengers in travel clothes and carrying luggage deplane out the rear of a jet. Jet labeled Pacific Air Lines. Propeller jet. Waterfall view. Two men in front of two cars, pan to long view of 200 foot high waterfall. View of a lodge with full parking lot, with waterfalls above. On stone path in park, woman in skirt and scarf holds a 35mm camera up to her eye and appropaches the camera. Pacific coast highway view. Pan of verdant cliffs and sun-lit sea. Three middle-aged women in skirts and sweaters stand on agravel road. They walk around taking pictures. One of them crouches and takes a picture of something on the ground. 02:42:39:25 SWITCH TO KODACHROME Middle-aged woman wearing a smile and dressed nicely, for church or a tea party, emerges from suburban house. She gives a silly wave to the camera. Second woman follows. Third woman emerges, again wearing a big smile. Young, teen girl emerges, dressed in pink dress and smiles at the camera. Pan of park or resort landscape: manicured greensward at a lakeshore with cabins, adirondack chairs. Cars parked on road are circa mid-1950s. White cross in lawn in front of a bush at the lakeshore. Rail platform with African-American porter attending an embarkation point. White families mill on the platform.. A second African-American porter descends the rail car steps and greets his co-worker. White families board the train. Teenage girl greets the porter as she boards the train. Pan of train cars: Santa Fe Railroad. Long shot of train platform with passengers milling. WHERE ARE WE? A worker rides a contraption the length of the platform. The contraption is a four-wheeled cart with a large attachment that abuts and brushes the side of the train, as if cleaning it. On the train: teenage girl walks down the corridor toward the camera. Dark. Switch to automotive transport: Roadside POV of dramatic arid mountain landscape with road and e

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