This episode of the 1964-65 travelogue program America!, presented by the prolific and pioneering Iranian-American television host Jack Douglas and distributed by Sandy Frank, hops across the United States to showcase a bevy of national monuments, parks, and attractions. From New England to Florida, Arizona to Alaska, Jack Douglas and his photographers display for the audience a “picture postcard panorama” of all the natural beauty that the United States has to offer.
(0:16) title card: “America!” over a montage of images including (but not limited to) Mount Rushmore, Native Americans, the American Southwest, the Old Faithful geyser from Yellowstone National Park, Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles, California, Las Vegas showgirls, and the Jefferson Memorial on the Potomac River in Washington, D.C.
(0:46) introduction by host Jack Douglas
(0:53) a woman shops for postcards
(1:17) title card: “Picture Postcard Panorama”
(1:36) cars on a New England freeway driving past autumnal trees
(1:47) people partaking in recreational activities (boating, hiking, fishing, hunting) in Maine and Vermont
(2:24) Cape Cod Bay in Provincetown, Massachusetts
(2:36) watercolor and pastel chalk artists among the tourists in Provincetown
(3:18) a Colonial re-enactment performer depicting the town crier
(3:51) a sand buggy, the Atlantic Ocean, vegetation, a lighthouse
(4:20) the Concord River in Concord, Massachusetts
(4:26) the North Bridge leading to sculptor Daniel Chester French’s Minute Man statue, engraved with the first stanza of the poem “The Concord Hymn” by Ralph Waldo Emerson
(4:50) Independence Square, Independence Hall, and sculptor Samuel Murray’s statue of John Barry in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
(4:58) the Liberty Bell
(5:26) Shofuso Japanese House and Garden in Philadelphia’s West Fairmount Park
(5:46) the Changing of the Guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington, Virginia
(6:22) the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia – the Shenandoah River and the Meems Bottom Covered Bridge
(7:04) Mennonites heading to church in horse-drawn buggies
(7:40) the George Washington river steamer on the Potomac River in Virginia
(7:52) George Washington’s Mount Vernon plantation
(7:59) the water wheel at the Old Mill at Berry College in Rome, Georgia
(8:12) the mermaid water show in Weeki Wachee, Florida
(9:05) the botanical gardens, water skiing show, and sunset in Cypress Gardens, Florida
(10:36) the waterfalls, smoky clouds, and autumnal trees of the Great Smoky Mountains in Tennessee
(11:13) thoroughbred horses in Kentucky, the “Bluegrass State”
(11:29) Antebellum-era re-enactment performers singing Stephen Foster’s “My Old Kentucky Home”
(11:50) the Alamo Mission in San Antonio, Texas
(12:14) White Sands National Park in New Mexico
(12:45) Navajo herding sheep through the Arizona desert
(13:28) Saguaro cacti and other desert flora
(13:58) snowstorm on the Grand Canyon plateaus
(14:52) vegetation and tourists in Colorado’s Great Sand Dunes National Park
(15:39) a Husky sled dog team in Aspen, Colorado
(16:12) Aspen’s annual “Ski Carnival”
(16:29) Devils Tower National Monument in Wyoming
(16:53) waterfalls, tourists, and animals (deer, moose, black bears) in Yellowstone National Park
(17:32) hot springs and geysers (including Old Faithful)
(18:34) tourists and bison in Yellowstone National Park during winter
(18:51) summertime tourists in Wyoming
(19:11) Wyoming’s Jackson Lake and Teton Mountain Range in Grand Teton National Park
(19:38) Mount Rushmore in the Black Hills National Forest of South Dakota
(20:20) tourists in South Dakota’s Badlands National Park
(21:07) Slate Gorge and mountain fishing in Utah, the “Beehive State”
(21:16) Mount Hood above Portland, Oregon
(21:29) Oregon’s Crater Lake
(21:58) aerial view of Alaska’s Mount Edgecumbe
(22:25) Alaska’s Mount McKinley (now known as Denali)
(22:33) dancers in Hawaii’s Polynesian Village (now known as the Polynesian Cultural Center)
(22:58) a sunset behind a catamaran in the Pacific Ocean
(23:16) Fog over the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California
(23:59) Jack Douglas concludes the program and credits
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