Trip: Canada - U.S. West, 1927 - II
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Bergman, Harry M.
label: Collection Creator
content: Kahn family
label: Collection Creator
content: Kahn, Kimberly
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content: Kahn Family Film Collection
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content: Kahn Family Film Collection / Series 3: Travel/Leisure
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: Archival materials
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content: Descriptive Summary: 800f, b&w, silent, Harry M. Bergman and Ruth Perl take a road trip across the country between August 23rd - November 4th, 1927, a compilation reel of two original reels of amateur shot film [handwritten title cards appear throughout] consisting of: 

 Date: September 15th - September 25th, 1927 

 Camera Operator: Harry M. Bergman and Ruth Perl 

 1. Reel 3 of 5, 400f, begins September 15th, 1927 at Yosemite, CA 

 Sept. 15th, Views taken at Yosemite Valley from the "floor of the valley", adjacent to the "New Awahneeh", Feeding a doe in front of museum , Half Dome, North Dome from Mirror Lake, Half Dome rises 4892 ft. above sea level. [good view of the Awahneeh Lodge] 

 Sept. 16th, El Capitan towering 3604 ft. above Merced River at it's base, "Bridle Veil Falls", "Arch Rock" (a freak left by the Glacial Erosion), "Inspiration Point" 

 Sept. 17th, Del Monte and Monterey, Monterey Bay - Sardine boat being unloaded at Fish Canary, Wind blown Cypress Trees on the rugged seat coast along the famous "17 Mile Drive, "Carmel by the Sea" and Mission St. Carlos near Monterey founded 1771, [Booth's Sardines] 

 Sept. 18th Santa Barbara & Montecito, Hotel Samarkand with its unique Spanish Architecture and its picturesque "Swan Lake", Italian Theatre formed of Cypress Hedge on the Grounds of the Bothin Estate, Monterey, Date-palm grove and Italian cypress 

 Sept. 19th, Private Menagerie of C.R. Holmes at Montecito, Mission Santa Barbara founded [?] "Pasadena", Library of E.P. Huntington, Pasadena's Play Ground Show [?], Tournament Stadium being enlarged to hold 100,000 people, making "Colored Movie" at Busch Gardens 

 Sept. 19th & 20th, Winston Ostrich Farm - South Pasadena, Trip to Catalina Island on S.S. Catalina, San Pedro Harbor, Lindy arrives in Los Angeles to-day - Sea-planes flying over, Nearing Catalina Island, "Avalon Bay" and Yacht Club, ? of Avalon from ? [harbor shots, Fellows & Stewart Boat Manufacturers, Pacific Marine Airways - Flying Boats to Catalina, dolphins] 

 Sept. 20th, Views taken on trip in "Glass Bottom Boat", Diver under Boat, Seal-Rock, Home of Wrigley, the Chewing Gum King and Absolute Owner of the entire Island of Catalina 

 2. Reel 4 of 5, 400f, begins September 21st, 1927 

 Sept. 21st, "Hollywood", Views at Bernheimer's Japanese Gardens Through Universal City showing "sets" of artificial France, etc. also artificial show [of an?] Ice flow glaciers, etc. [?] [fake front of Notre Dame, street scenes, Café du Diable, Articles De Paris Nouveautes, Vente - Achal - Exchange Delivres, fake ship, misc. fake fronts, NYC, Spanish] 

 Sept. 21, Hollywood Bowl - a natural open air stadium seating 20,000, Home of Cecil De Mille and "Falcon Lair" - home of Rudolph Valentino, Birds Eye View of Los Angeles from Falcon Lair [Spadena House, also known as the Witch's House at end] 

 Sept. 21st, Beverly Hills & Riverside, Cal., Largest Variety of Cacti in the world at White's Park, Riverside Indian School operated by U.S. Govt. at Riverside 

 Sept. 25th, "Grand Canyon" of Arizona, Rim of Canyon, one mile above the Colorado River from 7 to 13 miles wide, Views of Canyon from "Hermit's Trail" (Mule Train) [?], [Native-Americans performing]