[SUMMER 1941 HOME MOVIE VISIT TO MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA COLLINS AVE. RESORT HOTELS]

Genre: home movie

Description: Filmed in summer 1941 by an unknown American tourist, this home movie shows a trip to Florida in Kodachrome color. It begins with scenes in Miami Beach along Collins Avenue, with the Leroy Beach and Cabana Club (:31). The LeRoy Hotel and Villas, which boasted a view of Indian Creek and the ocean and opened in 1937, is shown next. At (:43) the Archway Ocean Villas at 6861 Collins Avenue. At (:54) a tourist walks across the street wearing a ridiculous straw hat. At (1:03) the office and sign for the Oceanic Villas. At (1:14) what appears to be the McLellan Ocean Villas. At (1:25) a woman leaves a cabana at the Oceanic Villas hotel. Oceanic Villas was billed as the "largest exclusive villa apartment-hotel in Miami Beach, one hundred apartments of luxurious living in the heart of the exclusive North Beach section" across the street from the Macfadden Deauville Beach Cabana Club. At (2:08) color footage, a woman named Gladys is shown at the Oceanic Villas. At (4:05) the Hialeah Racetrack is shown, no horse race is going on, Gladys is simply touring it. She is then shown walking at an estate or resort, followed by a shot of a man, presumably her husband (and possibly the filmmaker?) At (6:16) title card: Hollywood Beach, Hotel Gardens and Tamiami Trail (The Tamiami Trail is the southernmost 284 miles of U.S. Highway 41 from State Road 60 in Tampa to US 1 in Miami). At (7:11) what appears to be a marsh or the Everglades. At (8:09) shots of people relaxing on Deauville Beach, at the Deauville Beach Resort at 6701 Collins Ave. At (9:41) a man and his son walk up to camera, both are wearing sailors uniforms. At (11:17) the sailor poses with his other children and then at (11:44) with a woman who must be his wife. At (13:09) he poses with his mother. At (14:52) an older couple clowns around for the camera with a metal sculpture of a chipmunk. At (17:00) young kids wave small American flags, possibly in celebration of July 4th.