[Home Movies: Southwestern U.S.]

[Home Movies: Southwestern U.S.]

Includes: Mount Wilson sign; road to Mount Wilson; "The Huntington" hotel or resort scenes, somewhere in Los Angeles or the West; desert cacti and plants; sign: "Apache Trail Junction Ahead"; San Francisco skyline seen from Fairmont Hotel tower, with windowwasher cleaning window in foreground; Petrified Forest; Painted Desert; Indian Village; U.S. Highway 66 Association promotional sign; Trading Post; Old Albuquerque; New Mexico State Line sign Amateur home movie footage of San Francisco late 1930s 21:00:51:06 VS California coastline along Pacific Coast Highway 1 approaching what looks like Rocky Creek Bridge near Monterey heading toward San Francisco; rocky coastline, sea otters basking on the rocks; middle-aged 1930s woman standing on rocks on edge of surf. 21:02:59:08 High-angle shots looking down over San Francisco toward Ghiradelli Square as seen from Nob Hill area, Alcatraz visible in the bay; LS the Bay Bridge; Coit Tower 21:03:28:23 Great shot from inside building of window cleaner hanging outside of building wiping window; high-angle shot pan shot of 21:03:49:17 Great shot of window cleaner hanging by harness cleaning window, shot from inside building facing window cleaner. 21:04:40:01 CU New Mexico State Line sign; blue sky dotted with white clouds, great color; CU sign “Isleta Indian Curio”, LS of decaying adobe storefront, VS New Mexican adobe structures, adobe church, VS poor New Mexican village and villagers. 21:05:51:00 Little native-American girl in flowery dress with dark black hair and bangs walks toward camera over dirt street lined with adobe walls, little girls holds a White doll under her arm. 21:05:55:07 CU painted sign on adobe wall “Old Albuquerque Post Office”; LS pan over post office. 21:06:09:19 VS rich White woman bends down and holds out hand to poor little native-American boy, little boy runs away, then comes back and takes object from woman’s hand. 21:06:26:14 Covered wagon with painted sign “Continental Trading Post / Continental Div

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