This untitled color, amateur made travelogue film from 1962 chronicles a family’s trip to and around Southern California via train from Burlington, Vermont. The film features first hand footage of the family’s time at Disneyland, on Catalina Island, and enjoying the city and beaches of Los Angeles. Note: the music used in the film was selected by the filmmaker. (Unfortunately, we don’t know the name of the family featured in this film!)

Travel pamphlet “Getting There is Fun…Via Burlington” (0:07). Grassland and tree-lined mountain sides contrast orange exterior of passenger train as it passes through the Rockies and canyon of the Sierras (0:56-3:10). Monochrome gray crowd of men in suits on train platform (3:23). Interior of Southern Pacific “Pacific Daylight” passenger train as well as views of changing landscape down coast from San Francisco to Los Angeles: arid land, rocky coast (3:27-4:08). Sign for Charter House Hotel on Harbor Boulevard (4:09). Scenes from hotel grounds: tree-lined pathway, quiet pool area (4:35). Kids do diving tricks into pool (5:01). Family greets camera as the walk the Disneyland parking lot (5:34). Disneyland Monorail (5:48). Illustrated map of Walt Disney’s Magic Kingdom Disneyland U.S.A. theme park in Anaheim, California (5:57). Crowded Main Street in Disneyland (6:14). General admission ticket booth (6:18). Horse-drawn street car Main Street (6:29). Back of double-decker Omnibus (6:35). Disneyland City Hall (6:42). Disneyland Main Street Flower Market (6:46). Group of four performers sing and dance for park goers (6:49). Skyway gondola-lift attraction (7:22). Shot of crowds of tourists, Skyway Gondola lift, and Monorail (7:52). Views of park from Monorail: Disneyland City Hall, Skyway (8:03). Matterhorn Bobsleds ride (8:18). Tomorrowland Flying Saucers (8:38). Family sits for hamburger lunch at Stouffer’s Disneyland outpost (9:12). Red Disneyland Railroad steam train pulls up to station (9:34). Views from train passing through Frontierland (9:36). Ride operator lowers gate for Disneyland Patrick Henry Submarine ride (10:03). Views of aquatic life, coral reef from ride (10:08). Entrance Frontierland (10:33). Mark Twain Riverboat blows horn (10:41). Tom Sawyer Island Rafts ride (10:53). Kids climb around Swiss Family Treehouse (11:05). Sign for Adventureland (11:41). Pedestrian traffic in Adventureland (11:52). Jungle Cruise boat: ride along river in jungle-scape, robot elephants, hippos, crocodiles (12:05). Commercial street of Disneyland park, sign for Kodak (13:04). Exterior Disneyland Hotel (13:27). Dimly lit cafe at hotel (13:39). Manicured gardens and grounds at hotel (13:43). Sign with prices of entry to Disneyland via Monorail (14:09). Monorail pulls into station (14:15). Monsanto House of the Future (14:28). LED signs of Wurlitzer Music Hall, Penny Arcade etc. lit up at night (14:45). Fireworks light up the sky (15:11). Park illuminated by lights at night seen from Monorail (15:45). Construction site, men at work (15:53). Los Angeles Farmers Market Clock Tower (16:07). Stalls and alleys of farmers market crowded with shoppers (16:17). Poolside visit with E.D. Moore, Don Lusby and family: empty soda bottles, grandparents sit in lawn chairs, kids play (16:39). Travel pamphlet Knott’s Berry Farm Ghost Town, California (18:22). Kids pan for gold (18:49). Knott’s Berry Farm: old western set-up, emulate gold-rush era (18:54). Exterior and parking lot Marineland of the Pacific (19:23). Kids linger at pool with flamingos, penguins (19:46). Ferry stop for Catalina Island (20:49). Interior and exterior decks filled with passengers on S.S. Catalina (21:05). Crowded upper deck and views of Pacific (21:47). Other boats seen from ferry’s deck: sailboat, motorboats, view of tree-lined peaks of island (22:06). Boats parked Catalina Island harbor (23:17). Drive through palm-tree adorned streets on tour bus (24:04). View of harbor and Catalina Casino from high lookout (24:11). Mariachi band serenades crowd (24:38). Glass bottom boat tour: scenes of aquatic life (24:45). Scuba diver presents baby shark, spider crab to crowd (25:11). Fumes billow out of exhaust pipe on S.S. Catalina (25:49). Sign for Torrance County Beach (26:02). Sunbathers sit on sand and swimmers frolic in ocean (26:15). United Airlines DC-8 completes landing (27:16).

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