Union Pacific Promo Film

[Subdeacon Joe]

 

 

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This is a late 1950’s, early 1960s era color film about the wonders of California. The film opens with an aerial view of the Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco. Union Pacific Railroad presents Golden Gate Empire. 1869 graphic and men waving from a locomotive, :51. The Union Pacific Railroad, 1:00. Man pans for gold behind an 1848 graphic, 1:13. Men line the banks of a river mining for gold, 1:20. Sign for James W. Marshall and an arrow pointing near the spot where he discovered gold on January 24, 1848. General Store sign, operated by Wah Hop – an historic site, El Dorado, CO. No. 6, 1:45. Sutter's Mill and Sierra Ghost town, 1:52. Dancing girls, 2:03. Frog Jump sign, 2:17. Frogs, 2:30. Calveras and Angel Camp Frog jumping contest, 2:43. Monterey, California, 3:00. California’s first theatre, 3:17. Golden capital dome at Sacramento, 3:26. Wineries with ripening casks in the Napa Valley, 3:44. Grapes, 4:00. Horse drawn sledges, 4:15. Northern vineyards, 4:32. Aerial view of the Shasta Damn, 4:50. Mount Shasta covered with snow, 5:06. Mount Lassen volcano, 5:20. Redwood forests and Sequoia trees, 5:39. Men cut down trees, 6:00. Sections of redwood lumber, 6:15. Giant trees are cut in the lumber yard, 6:40. Fisherman pull up nets of oysters, 6:50. Fisherman pull in their nets, 7:05. Aerial view of boats, 7:29. Men fish for salmon, 7:55. Lettuce farms are harvested with men and large machines, 8:18. Carrots are harvested, 8:28. Artichokes are harvested, 8:39. California’s rice farms, 9:00. Machines farm the rice, 9:18. Cattle grazing, cows, sheep, 9:39. Aerial views of the mountains, 9:52. Hearst castle, 10:10. The Hearst castle façade, 10:29. Hearst castle courtyard, 10:50. The Pacific Ocean, 11;20. Carmel bay and Cypress trees, 11:40. Big Sur – the sea otter, 11:50. Wildflowers, 12:03. Monterey Bay, man in a boat, 12:17. Monterey Harbor, 12:33. Kings Canyon National Park, 13:00. Sequoia National Park, and General Sherman, 13:29. The Sierra Nevada, 14:06. Lakes and water skiing, 14:25. Trick water skiing, 14:37. Yosemite National Park, 15:00. Nevada Falls, 15:26. Grand Yosemite Falls, 15:35. Ocean waves, 16:20. Water rolls over rocks, 17:28. Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco, 17:45. Large ships from the east and west, 18:20. Food and other produce are loaded onto ships, 18:54. Bananas are unloaded from the ships, 19:10. Navy Ships, 19:30. Fisherman’s Wharf, 19:52. A man shows crab to a woman, 19:58. Aerial view of San Francisco, 20:15. Streets of San Francisco, 20:40. Green Domed City Hall and the Federal Reserve Bank, 20:55. Market Street, 21:23. Union Square, 21:45. Cable Cars, 22:01. Men push cable cars, 22:25. Bridges of San Francisco, 23:08. The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, 23:10. Golden Gate Bridge, 23:33. Chinatown, 24:20. Candles are lit in Chinese temple, 24:50. Woman kneels at Chinese altar, 25:05. San Francisco at night, 25:30. Chinatown at night, 25:45. Fisherman’s Wharf at night, 26:00. San Francisco restaurants, 26:20. Meat is sliced, 26:35. Union Pacific Railroad sign, 27:20. Clocktower, 27:28. Golden Gate Bridge at night, 27:40. Written by Howard Evans, edited by Harold E .Rice, narrated by Robert Johnson and filmed by Union Pacific Motion Picture Bureau. Executive producer, W.R. Moore. Produced by Vincent Hunter. Union Pacific Railroad. We encourage viewers to add comments and, especially, to provide additional information about our videos by adding a comment! See something interesting? Tell people what it is and what they can see by writing something for example: "01:00:12:00 -- President Roosevelt is seen meeting with Winston Churchill at the Quebec Conference." This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com

 

[twelve mile REB]

The Central Pacific later the Southern Pacific and numerous short lines provided California's rail service until the early 60's.  Then most of the access was by lines leased from the Southern Pacific under federal mandate.  A least that's the way I saw it played out in the early 70's.