This home movie features a family on vacation at several American landmarks such as the Grand Canyon and Yellowstone National Park. This color, silent film, is likely from the early 1960s. It contains footage of the Grand Canyon in Arizona including spectacular views into the Canyon taken from the South Rim and Mather Point. The film also contains footage of a zoo in Kansas City, Missouri. This home movie also shows Ledges State Park located in central Iowa. The park is known for its bridges and viewpoints. The family’s footage also shows a trip to Yellowstone National Park and it films the eruption of the Old Faithful Geyser and also bears walking on the road. This short home video provides a unique glimpse at family vacations to American landmarks during the early 1960s.
(00:14) A poorly exposed sign for the Grand Canyon
(01:07) Sign for Mather Point, a 7000 foot elevation point on the South Rim
(01:48) View of the Grand Canyon from the rim
(03:20) Driving down a nearby highway
(04:23) Children play with rifles as their family looks on
(05:09) A family enjoys a meal together
(06:02) Plymouth Savoy
(06:12) A mom holds a young baby up to the camera
(06:52) Women pass the baby around
(07:12) Swope Park Zoo in Kansas City, Missouri
(07:19) A cheetah in a cage at the zoo
(07:37) A lion is shown
(08:16) A chimpanzee
(08:26) An elephant waves its trunk
(08:47) Children exit a small boat named “Noah’s Ark”
(09:19) A zebra
(10:21) Flamingoes gather around the water
(10:38) Bears walk around their enclosures
(11:14) Raccoons eat food
(11:37) Families take a ride in a miniature train
(12:33) Footage of a family’s dogs in their yard
(14:10) The family drives tractors
(15:44) They enjoy a picnic in a forest
(16:09) Ledges State Park in Iowa
(17:19) Table Rock, one of the parks’ geological landmarks
(17:27) A 1930s stone bridge built by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
(18:36) A large group enjoys a meal together and then sit around and chat
(19:50) Relatives pose together
(20:13) A covered wagon outside an auto museum
(20:22) A Citroen B14
(20:32) Roadside attraction: a statue of the “World’s largest prairie dog” at Prairie Dog Town in Oakley, Kansas
(20:50) A drive near jagged rock formations
(21:37) A sign for Yellowstone National Park
(21:42) The family enter Yellowstone
(22:13) Bears walk on the road
(23:13) Hot springs in Yellowstone National Park
(23:26) Old Faithful Geyser, one of the park’s most famous landmarks, erupts
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