# " A CALIFORNIA TOUR " 1957 STATE OF CALIFORNIA TRAVELOGUE SAN FRANCISCO & LOS ANGELES 72352E

One of Castle Film’s few color travelogues, this 1957 film shows vintage images of national parks, including Yosemite, and major California cities. The film opens with a view of Mount Shasta (0:17), a potentially active volcano in the Cascades. This is followed by a view of Lake Tahoe (0:28) in the Sierra Nevadas, the second largest body of freshwater in the world. Visitors lounging on the beach, riding a motorboat, waterskiing, and fishing. A view of Yosemite Valley from the Wawona Tunnel entrance (1:26). A man fishes in the Merced River; Yosemite Falls up above (1:44). He cooks his fish over a campfire. Horses and donkeys climb a mountain trail. Two visitors look out over Half Dome (2:13). Giant redwoods at 2:26; a car drives through a gap in a redwood trunk. Yosemite during winter; a snowplow; visitors at the base of a ski lift. Kids sledding down a snowy hill. A deer eats from a visitor’s hand (3:13). Women sunbathe on Laguna Beach (3:19). Westlake Park in Los Angeles (3:27). Olvera Street (3:36), a pedestrian street in the Pueblo area with many Mexican products. Hollywood & Vine sign (4:05). Grauman’s Chinese Theatre on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (4:30); signatures from Joan Crawford, John Banny starting at 4:39. Brown Derby restaurant (4:45); 17-Mile Drive on Monterey Bay (4:51). Seals and seagulls at Seal Rock (5:08). Workers pick lettuce in the Great Salinas Valley, known as “the great salad bowl of the world” and featured in John Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath (5:26).…

- Kind: Film
- Genres: Travel, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/72352ECastleFilmsACaliforniaTour)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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