[HOME MOVIE EPIC USA AND CANADA FAMILY VACATION]

Genre: home movie

Year Published: 1948

Description: Shot by an unknown American family, this 1948 silent amateur home movie shows an epic trip to several United States and Canada landmarks. The film opens with a view of the Skyway Cafe in San Francisco (0:10). Two women and a man in front of a sign at Lake Tahoe (0:14); they walk under a Glenbrook Inn sign. Map of Lake Tahoe (0:30); downtown; Hotel Riverside (0:38). Reno, Nevada sign (0:45); a Packard Eight (0:53). Family in front of Black Rock sign (1:27). Latter Day Saints temple in Salt Lake City, Utah (2:32). United States Capitol building (2:44). Yellowstone National Park (2:56), with signs for Old Faithful, Fountain Paint Pot, and Silex Spring (3:15). Tourists walk around hot springs (4:20). A black bear (4:40). Sign for Grotto Geyser (5:23). Park ranger in front of Old Faithful (5:42); Old Faithful erupts. Artist Point sign (6:44). Buffalo Bill Dam (7:28). Totem Pole Rock (8:31). Woman standing next to Mount Rushmore National Memorial sign (8:58). Mount Rushmore (9:15). Dinosaur Park in South Dakota, the Badlands (9:20); tourists climb on dinosaur statues. Hangman’s Hill sign (10:00). Franklin D. Roosevelt Library in Hyde Park, New York (10:29). Family gathers in a wildflower field (11:20) and on the beach (11:55). A clown selling lottery tickets in downtown Ontario, Canada (12:27). Old City Hall Tower in Toronto (12:35). Maple Leaf Stadium (12:50). The Princes’ Gates, an arch at Exhibition Place in Toronto (13:02). Rowers practicing on Lake Ontario (13:59). Niagara Falls (14:22). Saint Anne de Beaupre Shrine, a pilgrimage site in Quebec (16:00). The Cyclorama de Jerusalem, a panoramic painting of Jerusalem at the time of Jesus’ crucifixion (16:13). La Scala Santa in Quebec (16:25). Family explores the Kent House grounds (16:43), including a wedding. Montmorency Falls (17:14), with a cable car. Chateau Frontenac, a famous Quebec City hotel (17:58). Horse-draw carriage (18:04). Samuel-De Champlain monument (18:26). A Farine Monarch Flour sign (18:44). St. Joseph’s Oratory of Mount Royal (19:23). A man and woman walk through the woods; a man shoots a shotgun with family in the background (21:14). Mother and daughter carry a cat; a dog joins them (22:10). Man with a shotgun holds two dead squirrels (22:42); trees with red leaves changing color (23:25). Man holds up line of fish (24:22); family water skis on a lake (25:02) and picnics in a field (27:05). Sunset over the lake (27:20). A man rides a tractor at a supply store (C.P. Smith Supply); signs for Goodyear tires and McCormick-Deering (29:10). Women exit Romford Methodist Church (30:00). Family picks grapes; more shots of trees in fall (31:41). Family in front of Joe’s Lake sign (32:23). Portland Union Station (32:48) and a Maine Turnpike sign. A Rockingham, NH sign (33:10) and horse race at Rockingham Park racetrack. The Connecticut State Capitol (33:51). New York City skyline (35:00), including the Chrysler Building (35:29) and United Nations building (35:42). A Moore-McCormack Lines ship (36:13). The U.S. Naval Academy (36:26); people sailing and playing tennis; St. John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland (38:08). The U.S. Capitol (38:22), Washington Monument, and Jefferson Davis statue in Washington, D.C. U.S. Tobacco Factory 25 (39:16) in Virginia. A marching band in Belmar, New Jersey (40:06). Otters, crocodiles, and other zoo animals. Bourbon Street, The Richelieu Room, (40:46), and Andrew Jackson statue in New Orleans. Tourists on a riverboat (42:55) in Harmony Street Wharf. Hispanic workers picking cotton (44:30); family waving in front of cacti; Casa Grande monument in Arizona (45:00). The Hoover Dam (45:09).