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16 CLASS 1 — Travel and Transportation
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seat himself on this thrilling ride. Some of the most gorgeous scenery in California and Arizona are seen, both through the windows of the speeding car and from vantage points with the camera stationary.
Returning from Phoenix by way of Blythe, the party reaches Los Angeles in 8 hours, 40 minutes and 10 seconds, traveling at an average speed of 53.79 miles per hour over roads which are good, bad and indifferent. Among the highlights of the return trip are a forced stop to chase a flock of desert sheep ofif the road, a visit to Salome where Dick Wick Hall's famous sign about the seven-year old frog that hadn't yet learned how to swim still stands, and a trip through the date orchards of Indio. While this film is of special interest to motorists it is both entertaining and educational and will be appreciated alike by men, women and children.
Courtesy of BILLY BURKE HOME MOVIES 103
REELING DOWN THE RHINE (With Will Rogers)
WILL ROGERS IN PARIS
WILL ROGERS IN DUBLIN
REELING DOWN THE RHINE WITH WILL ROGERS is a travelogue de luxe. It shows Will Rogers himself in a personally conducted tour down the River Rhine, in Germany. The famous Mouse Tower, man}ancient castles and magnificent cathedrals are among the points of interest covered on this trip.
WILL ROGERS IN PARIS takes us to the French Opera, the Tuilleries, the Louvre, Less Halles, the Bois de Boulogne, Fountainbleu and the Eifel Tower.
WILL ROGERS IN DUBLIN takes us to the Irish City where the streets are named in both Gaelic and English, "so the Irish people will know what the Gaelic means." Famous building? and statues are shown and Will takes us for a ride in an Irish jaunting car.
Embellished as it is with sage and humorous comments by the philosopher of Beverly Hills, this travelosrue is amusing as well as instructive.
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Courtesy of WHITE PASS & YUKON ROUTE 104
ALASKA (Atlin and the Yukon)
A personally conducted tour of the Yukon and the Klondike, the places made famous by the great gold rush of 1808. From the steamer, the traveler sees the magnificent scenery of the .Maskan coast line. The famous Taku Glacier is shown, a mile Avide and three hundred feet high, at the point where it reaches the sea and crumbles to form gigantic icebergs. The boat takes him up the Lvnn Canal to Skagwav, replete with romantic memories of the Trail of '^8. A thrilling and exciting adventure is pictured with the camera man in a small boat shooting the treacherous White Horse Rapids. Dawson, the center of the Klondike region, and the Indian Village of Moosehide are pictured. The film closes with some remarkable views of the migration of hundreds of caribou, who swim across the river in closelv packed crilnmns. An excellent travelogue.
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