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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221581-02
Color: Colour
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1960s
Country: USA
Location: Washington DC Mount Vernon
TC Begins: 08:18:20
TC Ends: 08:30:16
Duration: 00:11:56
Washington: Tourist Day Out (main title missing) Family traveling in car at night, children sleeping behind driver. Lights of cars on highways. Wife holding daughter, 3 kids in back seat. 08:18:41 POV past park; Rock Creek Park Zoo entrance, animals - chimp w/ glasses, lion, elephants, bear. Kids feeding. 08:19:19 Exterior & sign Department of Justice. Int. w/ board w/ posters of criminals captured by FBI - tour of FBI crime lab - FBI agents on firing range w/ machine gun. 08:20:18 National Gallery of Art exterior & interiors w/ tourists. Paintings, viewer w/ wireless earphone. 08:20:52 Ext. & int. Library of Congress, card catalogue, CU Gutenberg Bible. 08:21:17 Ext. & int. Folger Shakespeare Library w/ tourists - bust of Shakespeare, model of Globe Theatre, costumes from Shakespeare plays 08:21:57 Water Gate Inn, terrace cafe. Interiors of different Washington restaurants - Exterior Tommy’s Hamburger bar. 08:22:20 View from top of Washington Monument of Bureau of Engraving and Printing; sign & visitors entrance. Int. currency / money being printed. Tourists watch as dollars are cut up. Money counting machine 08:23:22 Ext. US Naval Observatory complex; Int. w/ electronics; telescope as roof of observatory opens. 08:24:03 Ext. & int Smithsonian Institution. Aircraft exhibit w/ The Spirit of St Louis on display; space capsule of Alan Shepard’s space capsule. 08:25:09 National Historical Wax Museum ext. & interiors - shots of models - tourists pose for photographs w/ models. 08:25:36 Ext. Islamic Center (only mosque in the US at that time) Tourists remove shoes before entering mosque. Washington Cathedral - interiors showing stained glass windows. Foreign Embassies of Canada - Tunisia - British - Russian. 08:26:55 AV Pentagon - tourist helicopter landing. 08:27:13 Back to family in car traveling home from their day trip to Washington. Wife relives her memories. Boat trip down Potomac, husband visits Arlington Cemetery & tracking shot past graves. Monument to flag raising on Iwo Jima. Jump in film to... 08:28:25 Mount Vernon - Int. Kitchen, ext tourists wander around estate where George Washington lived. Stables w/ buses. Porch w/ two rocking chairs - exterior Washington’s house & grounds. The End. 1960s; Travelogue; Promotional Film; NOTE: Unknown copyright; thought to be in public domain but user responsible for rights. NOTE: One continuous minute sold at per reel rate.