This silent black-and-white home movie, titled “Events of 1929” chronicles a family’s trip out west from Salt Lake City, Utah to Los Angeles, California and its suburbs. The elaborate, well-produced film includes illustrated title cards between each clip which indicate where the footage is from. Scenes from the film were taken from various points on the family’s trip including their visits to Mount Lowe, Mount Wilson, and Santa Monica Pier.
Opening scene of illustrated rooster saying “Hello everybody” (0:13). “Events of 1929” comes on the screen (0:16). Illustration of a family traveling out west to California (0:21). Footage from along the shore of The Great Salt Lake in Utah (0:27). Snow-covered mountains (0:59). Two young boys stand and pose in front of a snow-covered mountain (1:26). The young boys pose with their uncle Gus outside of The Maryland, perhaps referring to the condominium complex The Maryland in Salt Lake City, Utah (1:34). Scene of a highway amongst a valley of trees in Los Angeles (3:07). Suburban car-lined street with lots of trees and foliage (3:27). Cars parked along the road, perhaps the 1929 Essex by the Hudson Motor Company (3:34). Footage from the Cawston Ostrich Farm in South Pasadena, California (3:40). Views from Mt. Lowe on the southern fold of the San Gabriel Mountains (4:20). Mount Lowe Railway and the Mount Lowe funicular railway sequence (4:31). The young boys walk the grounds of Thaddeus Lowe’s Echo Mountain House and “The White City in the Sky” (6:47). Perspective from inside a funicular as it ascends down the mountainside (7:46). Mount Wilson and the astronomical observatory Mount Wilson Observatory (8:03). Los Angeles as seen from Mount Wilson (9:29). Footage from Santa Monica, California and its beach (9:29). The views of and from The California Limited (10:49). The family stands and waves from the end of the Santa Fe Line train after pulling into the Dodge City train station in Dodge City, Kansas (12:28).
The California Limited train shown, was one of the named passenger trains of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. It carried train Nos. 3 & 4 and ran between Chicago, Illinois and Los Angeles, California.
The Great Salt Lake is the largest saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere, and the eighth-largest terminal lake in the world. It lies in the northern part of the U.S. state of Utah.
The Maryland is one of the most famous condominium residences in Salt Lake and was built in 1912 by architect Bernard Mecklenburg.
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