California

Series

Series Name

Colour Pictorial

Issue

Issue No.

540

Date Released

29 Apr 1965

Date recorded

26 Mar 1965

Length of issue (in feet)

746

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1California

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 1

Summary

Pathe synopsis: The bright lights - and we’re in San Francisco, where Chinamen, Beatniks and a whole invasion of flamboyant foreigners made this the place that set Hollywood as an example. Everyone’s an actor in California and every setting you see is a film set. From the Golden Gate to the Mexican Market in Los Angeles: from the thundering freeways to the aerial tramway at Palm Springs that takes you to the film stars’ hide-away homes. We see Hollywood’s yachting harbour at Newport, in Orange County: we see the film studios. We go to a football match where marching majorettes put our foot-guards to shame with their precise drill movement and we begin to see why, even if Hollywood was non-existent, California itself would be spectacular and fabulous.

Keywords

Scenery and travel

Locations

United States of America; California; San Francisco; Newport; Palm Springs

Written sources

Pathe Colour Pictorial Lobby Cards   Used for synopsis

Credits:

Commentator

Richard Norton

Length of story (in feet)

706

Story extras:

Film clip

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