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Description
This film is a composite of several short home movies shot by James L. Lovell on silent, color 8mm film between about 1939 and 1942. Jimmy Lovell was a good friend of George and Helen Pepperdine, as well as other Pepperdine administrators, such as Batsell Baxter and Hugh M. Tiner, who appear briefly in this film. Lovell was also an important figure in the Churches of Christ community. The majority of the footage follows Lovell and his family on their travels around the country by air on an early American Airlines DC-3, with a lot of sites shot from the plane window. Sites include San Francisco, Sequoia National Park, Hoover Dam, the Grand Canyon, Washington DC, and New York City. There is a scene at a tennis match with celebrities in the audience and the last several minutes of the film feature the 1939 Tournament of Roses parade in Pasadena, California, with a young Shirley Temple as Grand Marshall.
Motion pictures Lovell, James L Tiner, Hugh M Temple, Shirley, 1928- Baxter, Batsell Barrett, 1916-1982 Tournament of Roses Hoover Dam (Ariz. and Nev.) Tennis National parks & reserves Travel Aerial views Airplanes Air travel Parades & processions Pepperdine University Universities & colleges George Pepperdine College
Source
Pepperdine University Archives Audiovisual Collection 0052
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