This 1960 film from United Airlines was created to inspire travel to the state. (TRT 28:29)
A California orange grove. (0:07). The California coast. Opening title: “California: World in a Week, Presented by United Airlines.” The Sierra Mountains, a lighthouse, cactus flowers, poppies (0:12). The Yosemite Half Dome (1:01). Juan Cabrillo Plaque, Cabrillo National Monument, Point Loma (1:40). The San Carlos Borroméo de Carmelo mission (1:55). Panning for gold, cattle pulling wagons (2:07). A United Airlines plane (2:20). An elevation map of California (2:30). Cacti against mountains, beaches, lakes, dunes (2:39). United Airlines DC-8 Jet Mainliner takes off (3:00). Passengers lounge in room-like seating. Passable looking steaks are served (3:30). An aerial view of Chicago (4:30). Airline passenger smoking (4:35). An aerial view of Denver (5:00). The cockpit (5:15). Landing over the San Francisco Bay (5:20). San Francisco International Airport. A Hertz Rent a Car (5:55). Nob Hill Hotel, Golden Gate Bridge, Coit Tower (6:35). A cable car (7:00). Skyline Drive (7:22). Cliff House (7:51). The Golden Gate Bridge (8:03). Fisherman’s Wharf (8:23). Chinatown (8:50). Typesetting at Chinese Times Publishing, children learning, a family eating, bazaar goods (9:05). Firecrackers. A Chinese New Year celebrated (9:48). Map of the Central Valley and Sierras (10:30). The Bay Bridge (10:33). Oakland (10:48). Sacramento (11:08). Sutter’s Fort and Mill (11:25). A ghost town (11:55). The High Sierras, Mount Whitney, Lake Tahoe, Bridal Veil Fall. Yosemite Fall, A Giant Sequoia (12:05). San Joaquin Valley agriculture (13:15). Monterey Peninsula, Pebble Beach golf course, customs house, Mission Carmel (13:35). Big Sur, State Highway 1 (14:40). Hearst Castle (15:00). Santa Inez Valley (16:10). Solvang (16:35). Santa Barbara (17:17). The August Fiesta, with parade (17:45). Los Angeles skyline (18:25). Map identifying Southern California (18:35). Los Angeles International Airport (18:54). Freeways, the Prudential building, residential homes (19:04). Original Farmers Market (19:35). A dish consisting of strawberry, orange, pineapple, avocado and cottage cheese on iceberg lettuce (20:03). Hollywood. The studio gates of Paramount Pictures, Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios. Warner Brothers water tower, Fox façade, Columbia Pictures studio (20:15). NBC, CBS Studios (20:49). Grauman’s Chinese Theatre (20:55). Scenes from the Ben-Hur premiere, November 24, 1959 (21:18). Pasadena Tournament of Roses (21:37). Southern California as a semi-arid desert (22:05). Marineland of the Pacific: a dolphin leaps through a flaming hoop, sea lions perform tricks. Bubbles the pilot whale (d. 2016). (22:30). Laguna Beach (24:45). La Joya shoreline (25:10). San Diego skyline, Mission Basilica, Balboa Park Zoo (25:25). The Tijuana border. “American tourists enter freely, without passports” (25:53). Palm Springs, with resort pool (26:23).
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