[1940s HOME MOVIE: STREAMLINER LOCOMOTIVES]

Genre: home movie

Year Published: 1940s

Description: This 1940s home movie begins with POV shots in a car and some rural landscapes, before showing shots at a zoo (1:07), and at (1:46) a TWA Transcontinental Line DC-3 is shown taking off at an airport. At (1:56) the streamlined Burlington Zephyr locomotive and passenger train streak past camera followed by a steam locomotive and at (2:24) what appears to be a Union Pacific streamliner, possibly M-10000 or M-10001 and at (2:51) another streamliner possibly M-10005 or M-100006. At (3:18) a steam train moves across a railroad bridge. At (3:34) is footage of small boats and private watercraft moving past a jetty. At (4:44) what appears to be a 12 gun salute is given, possibly as part of a military funeral ceremony. At (5:37) a woman visits a grave and places a flower. At (5:48) a church sits in a rural landscape. At (5:59) footage of a group of cats. At (6:13) a young boy drives a tractor on a farm. At (6:29) two kids ride a goat. One of them wears a cowboy hat. At (7:26) the kid dressed as a cowboy pulls out his toy gun and shoots.