This 1952 United Air Lines promotional film is titled “Skyway to Yosemite” and advertises United’s product for the journey. It shows various famous sites in Yosemite National Park including El Capitan, Yosemite Falls, the North Dome, the Government Museum, Mirror Lake, and Glacier Point and the famous Firefall. The film focuses on the well-rounded range of activities one can do there including hiking, golfing, horseback riding, and other sightseeing. It also shows some of the famous accommodations in the Park including the Ahwahnee, Wawona, and Glacier Point Hotels.

0:07 “Skyway to Yosemite”, 0:16 “Presented by United Airlines” “A Cate and McGlone Production”, 0:44 aerial overview of Yosemite National Park, 1:11 people standing next to Sequoia trees, 1:54 Yosemite in Fall, Winter, and Spring, 2:34 a DC-6 of United flying, 2:42 cabin crew preparing meals for passengers, 3:27 a map of the United network, 3:42 a bus waiting at an airport to take passengers to Yosemite, 4:18 the Gold Rush town of Mariposa, 4:24 the valley of the Merced River, 4:48 El Capitan and the Yosemite Falls, 5:20 guests enjoy a hotel in the park, 5:44 an animation showing Yosemite Valley, 6:10 the North Dome, 6:15 visitors in the Government Museum, 6:33 Sentinel Rock, 6:39 Cathedral Rock, 6:46 the view from Inspiration Point, 7:00 close up of El Capitan, 7:25 close up of Yosemite Falls, 8:16 visitors taking a horse ride through the valley, 9:33 a group rides by Mirror Lake, 10:14 the group stops for a picnic breakfast, 11:34 the group drives to Glacier Point, 11:44 Glacier Point Hotel, 11:58 the view from Glacier Point, 12:54 Yosemite Falls as seen from Glacier Point, 13:23 a limousine pulls up to the Hotel Wawona, 13:56 a Pioneer Stagecoach, 14:07 the limousine drives through the Mariposa Grove of Big Trees, 14:54 the Grizzly Giant Sequoia tree, 15:21 the Wawona Tunnel Tree, 15:42 guests eating lunch at the Big Trees lodge, 15:56 baby bears stealing food, 16:11 children at the Government Museum, 16:45 a slow pan up of a giant Sequoia tree, 17:06 guests enjoying themselves at the Ahwahnee Hotel, 18:08 guests being served food at the Ahwahnee Hotel, 18:32 guests playing cards in the “California Room”, 18:44 the “Great Lounge”, 19:05 people hiking on different trails in the park, 19:52 different flowers native to Yosemite National Park, 20:15 a group riding on horseback to Nevada Falls, 20:57 people on horseback on the High Sierra Trail, 21:28 people hiking on the Mist Trail to Vernal Falls, 22:45 different shots of Camp Curry, 23:22 people riding bikes on a trail, 23:34 people swimming in the Merced River, 23:58 children playing at the “Kiddy Campy”, 24:14 a large group riding to the river on donkeys, 24:54 a fire being set up at Glacier Point, to create the famous “Firefall” — a tourist attraction the National Park Service ordered stopped in 1968. 25:51 the Firefall (well, probably animation of it) being pushed from Glacier Point with spectacular results 26:20 “The End”

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