A Motor Trip to Florida - Outstanding 1931 Home Movie | 16mm Film Scan

Description: Fantastic silent home movie (soundtrack added) of a trip to Florida from North Manchester, Indiana. Full titles throughout, so you're never left guessing what is going on. Notably John D. Rockefeller & Mark Honeywell are featured in the film. Regarding the large watermark, I was first trying out changing it and had it too large here. I've since decreased it in future uploads. Film covers them traveling south through to Florida; return journey has them travel the coastline and looping back to home in Indiana. Filmed by Thomas A. Peabody (1881-1944) of the Peabody School Furniture Company. His uncle Simon J. Peabody, founded the Peabody Auditorium in Daytona; and his house is shown as the "Peabody Hotel", at 21 N Halifax Drive, which is on the Natl. Reg. of Historic Places. He is the older mustached man that can be seen in the film. (Identified thanks to Voxkd in the comments) *Contact Regarding Usage* Scanned frame-by-frame as usual and corrected for contrast/exposure scene-by-scene; much of the film was fairly washed out and low-contrast. Added slight post stabilization. I believe the film was primarily shot at 16 FPS however also had some that appeared to be 24, why some scenes may appear a little slow-mo. Info on the Peabodys: http://www.nmanchesterhistory.org/businesses-peabody-seating.html https://www.peabodyauditorium.org/history 0:00 Title 0:11 Route Map 0:36 Heading Out 1:50 Passing thru Georgia 2:29 W.M. Griffin Home, Miami Beach 3:57 Mr. Honeywell 4:21 Leaving Miami 4:57 Seminole Family 8:37 Daytona Air Mail 9:20 Daytona Beach 11:00 Meeting Mr. Rockefeller 12:03 On the Tomoka River 13:37 Leaving Florida 14:39 Coopers River Bridge, Charleston 15:53 Gettysburg 16:36 Back home! Songs Added (From LoC jukebox): The Land of my Sunset Dreams - Jack Chapman Orchestra I Want to See My Tennesee - Jean Goldkette Orchestra Bahama - Art Kahn Orchestra Moonlight - Paul Whiteman Orchestra Calicoco - Joseph C. Smith's Orchestra Plenitud - Victor Band #1930s #VintageFlorida #travelogue #RoadTrip #archivalfootage #1931 Keywords: 1931 Florida trip, vintage Florida film, Miami Beach history, Daytona Beach 1930s, Seminole family footage, Tomoka River, Charleston Coopers River Bridge, Gettysburg home movies, John D. Rockefeller film, Mark Honeywell, W.M. Griffin house, Peabody Auditorium Daytona, North Manchester Indiana, historic road trip, vintage automobile travel, early Florida tourism, silent home movie, classic 16mm film, Great Depression travel, American family vacation film, 1930s US history, archival travel footage

Online Copy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3O4i4fRALu4

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