HOME MOVIES: 1947 TRIP TO SOUTHERN ARIZONA

Genre: home movie

Year Published: 1947

Format: 16mm

Description: Shot by an unknown tourist in Kodachrome, this color home movie was made in 1947 and shows Southern Arizona highways, monuments, missions and the town of Tombstone. It begins with a shot of the cover of the popular magazine "Arizona Highways". Opening titles: Arizona Highways March 1947 (:08). A boy sitting on the grass flips through the magazine (:16). Frontier Lodge neon sign, probably the hotel in Phoenix, Arizona; the moon in the night sky; desert at night (:26). Car parked near a sign that reads: Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in Pima County (:42). Organ pipe cactuses and mountains near Tucson (:58). Sign that reads: Sahuaro National Monument (1:38). Sahuaro cactuses near the side of different roads and trails (1:44). Sunset in the desert (2:20). Sign for Mission San Xavier del Bac; the Mission (2:38). Sign for: Tumacacori National Monument; outside of the monument (3:26). Statue of Father Kino (3:44) Sign for: Welcome to Tombstone and Boothill Graveyard (4:20). Tombstone, AZ; Schieffelin Hall, a museum, a building from the American Old West in Tombstone, the largest standing adobe structure still existent in the United States southwest (4:31). City Hall in Tombstone; O.K. Corral (4:47) scene of the famous gunfight. The Bird Cage Theatre (5:05). Boothill Graveyard (5:12). 5:31 tombstone of John Heath, lynched by Bisbee mob. At 5:53, the famous tombstone for Lester Moore, four shots from a .44, no Les, no More. Sign for Chiricahua National Monument; the monument (5:58). Massai Point sign (6:18). Rocks and mountains (6:23). Car parked on the side of an Arizona highway (6:52). Rock formations; cactuses (7:03). Flowers (7:34). Sign for Tonto National Monument; flower on a prickly pear in the monument (7:48). A woman and man walk around inside the monument (8:04). Indian ruins (8:10). Cactuses on a hillside; some flowers on the hill (8:26).

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