1930-1939WESTERNS
B&W historic footage of the 1930's Southern Pacific passenger train, "the Daylight", as it travels across the State of California from Los Angeles to San Francisco. A Travelogue showing off the features of the luxurious train, a hotel on wheels.
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| 01:00:11 11.25 |
B&W footage, missionaries walk through the desert on a mission from Southern to Northern California. A missionary collapses, passes out, others help.
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| 01:00:17 17.01 |
The Southern Pacific's "Daylight" streamline passenger train, coming toward camera and going through the snowcapped mountains in Northern California. The "modern trailblazer".
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| 01:00:47 47.33 |
Tilt down WS pan across San Francisco circa 1930's
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| 01:00:58 58.09 |
Tilt down on busy downtown Los Angeles in the 1930's. Pedestrians crossing streets. A vintage Stop and Go sign on corner - traffic signal with the word "go" popped out from the signal. Crowds walking the busy sidewalks. Vintage cars and busses and trolleys in traffic.
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| 01:01:14 74.34 |
Aerial view of wide valley with snowcapped mountains in background.
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| 01:01:20 80.22 |
CU a bush full of fresh oranges and flowers.
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| 01:01:23 83.41 |
A Southern California beach, people sunbathing, beach umbrellas
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| 01:01:28 88.68 |
Workers, Grips, on a movie set in Los Angeles, moving a camera, standing on scaffolds on location.
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| 01:01:36 96.88 |
WS of mountain scenery.
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| 01:01:41 101.24 |
WS exterior the Los Angeles train station.
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| 01:01:47 107.47 |
CU a Southern Pacific "Daylight" passenger train engine. An African American porter shines up the passenger doorway, smiles happily and helps passengers board the train with their luggage.
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| 01:02:20 140.22 |
Getting ready to take off. The front engine of the train, cars joined together in two car units, the engineer climbing aboard, the porter rolling up the steps. Engineer looking out as train gets ready to take off "All Aboard". The train rolls out of the station.
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| 01:02:55 175.76 |
CU the train wheels rolling slowly on the tracks. On its way from Los Angeles up the coast 471 miles following the ancient trails of the Missions to San Francisco.
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| 01:03:17 197.71 |
The rear car of the Daylight, its rounded back
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| 01:03:18 198.76 |
Shots of the Daylight as it picks up speed out of the station.
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| 01:03:29 209.79 |
Interior of the Daylight. Well dressed passengers seated comfortably in the luxurious car as the scenery spins past them through the large windows. The conductors punching passenger's tickets.
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| 01:04:18 258.12 |
LS the Daylight heads toward a tunnel forged through a mountain (on its way to the ocean).
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| 01:04:25 265.36 |
Interior - the Parlor car with individual high back comfortable seats, luxury travel. A conductor walks down the aisle checking on his passengers,
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| 01:04:42 282.64 |
Tilt down as the Daylight drives through the hills of California
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| 01:04:56 296.71 |
POV from inside the moving train, along the highway passing cars, near the city of Ventura with views of the Pacific Ocean.
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| 01:05:09 309.22 |
Inside the modern coffee shop of the Daylight well dressed mostly women wearing sit at the counter and enjoy their coffee
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| 01:05:25 325.23 |
POV from inside the Daylight as is passes by Oil Derricks in the Pacific Ocean
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| 01:05:33 333.34 |
Great tilt down shot of the train, with steam coming out of the engine, driving along a Pacific Coast cliff with the Oil Derricks along the shore and in the water.
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| 01:05:48 348.74 |
WS the Daylight's first stop - Santa Barbara. Train passes by huge palm tree and Spanish style building. Tilt down on the sprawling city of Santa Barbara with mountains in background.
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| 01:06:14 374.89 |
A montage of the scenery and lifestyles of Santa Barbara in the 1930's. Several boats docked in the waters, a polo game, Spanish folk dancers., The Spanish Mission, the rugged cliffs along the Pacific Ocean
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| 01:06:44 404.03 |
POV inside the train as it passes by beaches of the Pacific Ocean near Santa Barbara, California.
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| 01:06:55 415.21 |
Tilt down the train as it passes through the mountainous foothills of the countryside.
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| 01:07:05 425.73 |
Interior Three African American Chefs in the kitchen of the train prepare lunch.
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| 01:07:18 438.18 |
CU of the fancy place settings, white linen tablecloth and flower on the table.
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| 01:07:29 449.69 |
Passengers enjoying lunch at their tables on the train. Waiter serves a woman wearing a fancy hat and man wearing a suit and tie.
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| 01:07:51 471.86 |
The Daylight train pulls into the station at San Luis Obispo. Half way point from Los Angeles to SanFrancisco. The train gets a fresh locomotive "all tuned up and polished" for the homestretch.
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| 01:08:18 498.14 |
Front shot of the large engine and the cars as it rolls slowly through the station and toward camera.
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| 01:08:35 515.96 |
The southbound Daylight train passes by heading toward Los Angeles.
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| 01:08:46 526.72 |
Interior of the Observation Car in the train. People seated in chairs facing out the windows, other folk relaxing in a wider area with deep seated cushioned chairs facing each other, lots of leg room and plenty of windows.
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| 01:09:17 557.56 |
The sloping rounded mountains and canyons of Northern California as the Daylight passes through
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| 01:09:49 589.05 |
The Daylight passes through the Southern Pacific's "Horseshoe Curve" - an engineering achievement. As the train goes around the curve passengers in the back of the train can see the engine.
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| 01:10:16 616.53 |
POV from inside the trains as it passes through the rolling hills of Paso Robles
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| 01:10:27 627.54 |
Silhouette of a young boy looking out the window from inside the train as it passes through the town of San Miguel.
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| 01:10:37 637.26 |
Ext. of the Mission San Miguel. Missionaries strolling the grounds. Cactus and dry vegetation and a dog runs by.
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| 01:10:55 655.6 |
The Daylight pulling into the Salinas train station.
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| 01:11:05 665.16 |
CU of the engine of the Daylight looming large
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| 01:11:06 666.81 |
Pan the fields of lettuce in the Salinas Valley. Farm workers picking lettuce by hand.
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| 01:11:18 678.4 |
A Salinas Rodeo cowboy riding a bucking bronco and gets thrown to the ground.
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| 01:11:27 687.7 |
Boats docked in Old Monterey, flock of seagulls flying.
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| 01:11:41 701.58 |
Cypress trees and mountains in background - the Monterey Peninsula. People ride horses along the bridal path near the famous seventeen mile drive.
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| 01:12:01 721.31 |
The rocky coastline of the Monterey Peninsula, two women hike down toward the water. The most famous scene at the peninsula, "Cypress Point"
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| 01:12:25 745.53 |
The famous championship golf course at the Monterey Peninsula. Two women seen on the course putting with the great Pacific Ocean crashing waves behind them.
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| 01:13:06 786.65 |
Seals in the foreground on the rocks in the ocean. LS of seals swimming, frolicking, having fun in the Pacific.
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| 01:13:22 802.96 |
Scenic shot of the rugged Pacific Ocean in Monterey. Rocks along the coastline and a jagged tree on a cliff, water glistens from the sun.
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| 01:13:32 812.86 |
Pan the expansive, famous and fashionable Hotel Del Monte at the Monterey Peninsula.
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| 01:13:45 825.93 |
1930's bathing beauties pose on the diving board
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| 01:14:24 864 |
Waiter serves passengers seated in leather booths in the Tavern Car. Fashionable ladies and gentleman sip fancy drinks.
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| 01:14:49 889.6 |
The Daylight pulls into the train station at San Jose. Exterior of the new Southern Pacific Station building in San Jose.
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| 01:15:04 904.02 |
Pan slow across Santa Clara University grounds and Mission with beautiful palm trees.
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| 01:15:21 921.56 |
The town of Palo Alto, vintage cars and peds. Aerial shots of the oak covered campus of Stanford University.
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| 01:15:37 937.76 |
Fashionable 1930's ladies combing their hair and primping in front of big mirrors in the dressing room of the Daylight train. A Ladies Maid is seen reflected in the mirror.
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| 01:16:02 962.35 |
Porters walk out of the train depot as the streamlined Daylight train comes rolling into the platform in San Francisco. Fashionable people, women in furs and hats, and men in suits and hats wait on the platform.
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| 01:16:23 983.79 |
Well dressed fashionable folk disembark from the train and walk happily down the station platform carrying their luggage.
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| 01:16:30 990.65 |
Shots of San Francisco city and Bay area. Tilt down on the tops of buildings in San Francisco in the 1930's. Pan the skyline, Knob Hill, Telegraph Hill, the mile + Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco Bay - Alcatraz Island, downtown trolley cars, skyscrapers.
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| 01:17:48 1068.19 |
China Town San Francisco. Sign for Chop Suey and Chow Mein juts out from building, pan down from the signage to the streets of China Town with its temple shaped buildings, shops and restaurants.
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| 01:17:59 1079.71 |
Pan across San Francisco Bay to the massive Bay Bridge. Shots of the bridge, a ship passes underneath.
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| 01:18:21 1101.62 |
Cutaway to map of the United States with animated lines drawn of the many scenic routes of the Southern Pacific Rail Lines - all routes from the East meet in San Francisco.
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| 01:18:32 1112 |
Various scenic shots along the routes of the Southern Pacific Rail Lines. Shasta Route passes snow capped Mount Shasta. Carlsbad Caverns. Black maids walk out of a mansion in New Orleans, train crosses the Great Salt Lake.
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| 01:19:06 1146.03 |
End film - shots of the streamlined Southern Pacific trains as they speed across the country on their four scenic routes. Names of the routes overlay the trains as they speed by.
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| 01:19:57 1197 |
End reel.
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