Seattle’s Seafair / Sports Car Road Racing / Rodeo Time In Reno

Duration: 12:00

Year Published: 1951

Creator: Motion Picture Service Co. San Francisco

Complete Record: Newsreel type showcase of Seattle Sea Fair 1951. Long shots of Seattle skyline and Puget Sound. Sunbathers lounging on a beach. Evergreen Point Floating Bridge, the longest floating bridge in the world. Aurora Bridge. Ballard locks. Giant ships spraying water. King Neptune shaking a man’s hand. Miss Washington and beauty queens from different cities across Washington. USS Seafair being christened by young boy and girl in royal outfits. A “pirate ship” arrives and the pirates abducts the beauty queens. The pirates board a ship and force a man and a blonde woman to walk off the plank. The pirates cheer to Davy Jones and Captain Kidd. A large crowd watches a fireworks display while bathing beauties dive into the water and perform a water follies synchronized swimming type show. King Neptune’s court and the coronation of the new Queen of the Sea. A large daytime parade is held and the streets are lined with people. King Neptune, the Sea Queen, and the beauty queens all ride large floats down the street. Children watch in delight. Acrobatic displays of water-skiing on the open water, jumping off ramps on water skis, one footed water-skiing. Mechanics working on speed boats, lowering boats into water. Speed boats spraying water up into the air. Speed boat race. Checkered flag waves. The winner - Slo-mo-shun V - waves to the crowd. Sports Car Road Racing Driving along Monterey Peninsula in California. Pebble Beach. Seventeen 17 mile drive. A deer near Pebble Beach golf course with men putting and driving. A woman and a man skeet shooting at clay pigeons. A girl jumps off diving board into swimming pool. A young boy climbs ladder up out of the pool. Long dolly shot of a car show with many vintage automobiles. Sport cars and luxury cars. An older hand cranked car that needs to be wound up. Mechanics prepping cars before big race, checking things under the hood, balancing wheels, taping headlights. Inspectors checking out the sports cars before the race. Numbers are painted on the sides of the cars. Cars are lined up at starting line as crowd looks on. The flag is waved and off they go. Race has close-ups, tracking shots, pans, and wide shots of cars in packs, tight around turns and curves, passing one another, skidding out, and crashing into bales of hay around the edges. The checkered flag is waved as the winner crosses the finish line. The winner gets a trophy and a kiss from his wife. Rodeo Time in Reno Reno, the biggest little city in the world. Shots of downtown streets, the University of Nevada, Washoe County Court House, Truckee River with a man fly fishing. Lake Tahoe in the high Sierras with people walking and laying out on the beach. People boarding and riding a skiing chair lift in the summer for gorgeous mountain views. Virginia City, Nevada an old mining town. Storey County Courthouse. Piper’s Opera House. Parade through Reno with people on horseback. The Queen of the rodeo with three maids of honor. The crowd watches a succession of old cars and covered wagons roll by. Indians with feathered headdresses on horseback. Rodeo starts with calf roping and tying. Bucking broncos horseback riding. Bringing down bull steer. Bareback riding. Bull riding.