[1959 HOME MOVIE TRIP TO NORTH CAROLINA, RHODE ISLAND, LAS VEGAS]

Genre: home movie

Year Published: 1959

Description: This 1959 silent color home movie shows family members and landmarks from a trip to various places in North Carolina, Rhode Island, Nevada and California. The movie begins with several family members standing on a dock and then boarding a small red motorboat (0:26). A young White man waterskis behind the boat and swims (0:47). An older White man and woman walk on the dock and hug (1:50). Niagara Falls and “Maid of the Mist” steamer (2:13). Rainbow International Bridge (2:39). Visitors, including a man in a suit, walk near the bridge (3:05). A rainbow is visible near the falls. A man rides a lawnmower, standing in a Mt. Diablo Fruit Farm box (3:19). A woman picks up a small child and a man rides a bike in the background (3:22). A girl with blonde hair rides the mower (3:48). A line of award ribbons (4:18); a “Pets Section 500” sign (4:41). Family members sit eating outside (5:10). A dog, likely a boxer, stands at a chain link fence (5:31). Cars driving across a bridge (5:57). Sailboats in a marina, one named “Row Her Down” (6:10). Family members pose for the camera while on towels at the beach (6:40). The boxer, knee deep in water (7:13). A boy rides a tricycle (7:39); family members relax in chairs outside. The footage turns dark as family members stand in a line facing the camera (8:05) and a man rides a bike on a dirt road (8:48). At 9:19, the movie returns to the family on the lake; five people in a rowboat (9:32). A man holds a blonde boy’s hand as he wades into the water (10:01); a boy swims with the dog (10:17). A large brick house with a “6503” sign (10:50). Men on horseback in white helmets (11:49). A military procession in a field with tanks, men on horseback, men marching with rifles and red, white, and green flags (12:15). A family candlelit dinner (13:09). Two women and a man holding tools in a stream and digging, presumably for clams (14:11). Sailboats far off shore (14:50). Family members stand near a car and backyard picnic table (16:00); a woman fiddles with a camera (16:21). Men in uniform board a U.S. Air Force plane (16:40), possibly a Douglas C-47, and it takes off. A cowgirl on a souvenirs sign advertising “Free Slot Machines” on Fremont Street in Las Vegas, Nevada (17:21). Hotel Flamingo sign (17:26), advertising Pearl Bailey, Louis Bellson, and Harry James. Dunes sign (17:43). Tropicana “Edie Adams Ted Lewis” sign (17:56). McCarran Field (18:32), a former airport. A ranch-style house with chickens (18:57). Golden Nugget Gambling Hall (19:11); Little Chapel Around The Corner (19:20). Sahara Casino along the Las Vegas Strip (19:23). Family sunbathing in the grass (20:10). Lafayette Motor sign (21:25). Family on a back porch (22:00). Family waves as a commercial plane takes off (22:43).