This color promotional film directed by Ray Corwin is about the American Hotel Association (AHA) and what hotels/motels offer throughout the country of the United States. Copyright is circa 1962.
Opening: rural, city and town, buildings both horizontal and vertical for people to stay at (:07). 6500 member hotel and motels of the American Hotel Association (AHA) (:39). Opening titles: The American Hotel Association presents The Great Tradition (:50). Various hotels (1:14). A chef makes a a wedding cake (1:23). Men sit at a table, them men of the AHA (1:37). Various hotels and motels around the United States (1:54). A woman pours water on her friends while they are sunbathing on the beach (2:22). People relax in sunbathing attire; some play archery, shuffleboard, and tennis (2:26). The motor hotel; Motor Inn Accommodations (2:53). A couple kiss with fall foliage behind them (3:24). A newly married couple kiss (3:28). A hotel employee takes out the Hotel Red Book 1961 which lists those affiliated with the AHA (3:58). A family is brought to their room by a hotel employee (4:17). The telephone switchboard is the nerve center of the hotel (4:50). A woman who works in advanced reservations takes calls (5:08). People in rooms in a hotel makes requests to various areas (5:31). Boxed lunches (6:12). Parking lot to the swimming pool (6:25). A man cuts fabric; anther man builds a wood shelf (6:41). Outside of a hotel (6:56). A maid makes up a bed (7:14). Women fold towels (7:19). Construction of a new hotel (7:27). A baby is tended to by its mother in a large crib (7:33). A foreign traveler is helped by a person who speaks their language (7:48). Water fountains with lights and colors (8:46). People dance; people take a hayride; a man plays piano; a wedding reception (9:06). A convention at a hotel (9:26). Chefs cook meals (9:41). A celebration buffet for two hundred guests; items from the menu (10:16). Night in the city; a man purchases a magazine in a hotel gift shop (11:24). Hotel staff is still on duty late at night (11:47). As dawn arrives, chefs make breakfast (12:19). Switchboard operators at work (12:43). A family get into their car (12:50). Pan American jumbo jet in the sky (13:13). American flag flies (13:36). End credits (13:51).
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