This colour amateur film documents a holiday visit to the United States of America including New York, Chicago and San Francisco, possibly a visit to Hawai’i and also Fiji.
LS GV The Statue of Liberty, the Manhattan skyline and large ships (cruise liners, tankers, bulk carriers) moored at wharves.
GV People seated aboard ferry travelling along Hudson river - New York skyscrapers in BG.
LS GV Empire State building and United Nations building as seen from ferry on East river.
GV New York street scenes.
HS Overlooking New York skyscrapers and other buildings as seen from the Empire State building, Chrysler building standing above others with illuminated spire.
HS GV Overlooking New York streets from Empire State building observation platform.
LS Looking towards Manhattan island skyline.
TRACKING SHOT LS Looking towards New York JFK airport terminal building from inside aircraft taxiing on runway.
Women standing talking as man and children poses for camera while holding American flag.
African American children sitting talking on grass in park.
WS Man walking past large pond in [Lincoln park, Chicago].
Family standing at base of plinth of statue “A Signal of Peace” in Chicago.
GV People skeet shooting over [Lake Michigan] at [Lincoln Park Gun Club].
LS Looking along shoreline of Lake Michigan towards Chicago skyline.
GV Chicago street scenes - traffic, market stalls and pedestrians.
African American girls playing double dutch / skipping rope on sidewalk.
TRACKING SHOT GV Driving on Chicago streets past strip malls and parking lots with large public housing project [Henry Horner, Cabrini Green, Stateway Gardens, Rockwell Gardens] buildings in BG.
WS One Prudential Plaza building.
HS PAN R Across Chicago skyline and skyscrapers towards Lake Michigan.
AV GV Overlooking snow capped mountains and ridges.
GV Streets of San Francisco and San Francisco City Hall
GV People walking in Golden Gate Park - Conservatory of Flowers, Japanese
GV Woman feeding squirrel in park.
LS GV Looking towards Golden Gate bridge and the city of San Francisco.
EXT 9 Fisherman’s Grotto restaurant.
GV Passengers and conductors aboard tram travelling on city streets.
TRACKING SHOT From bus travelling along freeway - overpasses and of ramps.
WS Pan American Boeing 707 parked on tarmac.
GV Beach scenes at [Hawai’i, Honolulu, Waikiki].
Fijian boys posing for camera - 1 holds sele kava (caning knife), another holds tinned fish - Bure being built in BG.
WS GV Overlooking Fijian valleys and agricultural land.
Man standing with camera in plantation.
Fijian woman walking in village carrying folded clothes.
AV LS Sunset on horizon from aircraft flying over ocean.
GV Passengers disembarking from a Teal Lockheed Electra with SIGN “TEAL Jet Prop”.