BMA world tour. Part 1a, Aross America.

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<p>This amateur film, which has been edited semi-professionally with additional intertitles and maps to orientate the viewer, consists of footage shot in the second part of the BMA's World Tour as they travel across America. The group travel from Chicago via a special steam train through Kansas City, Topeka and Las Vegas. They stop at Isleta Pueblo, New Mexico, a Native American village. They arrive at siesta time; women from the party pose with children. The Rio Grande is seen. Then indigenous women at Isleta. Two men of the party pose by the Grand Canyon; then there is a shot of timelapse footage showing the shadows moving across the canyon. There is an exterior of El Tovar Hotel and then establishing shots of Los Angeles and Hollywood; Pershing Square, Cafe Trocedero, palm trees and typical residential architecture. The party then travel to Santa Monica; exteriors of the Bath House are followed by wide shots of the beach with people bathing and a small marina with a number of boats. Arriving at San Francisco, there are unsteady camera pans of the Oakland Bridge and the Docks which are shot from Coit Memorial Tower (the city is clearly very densely populated). Municipal buildings are then shown from ground level. The Department of Health building is in evidence. At the harbour, there is a paddle steamer in the bay and other harbour footage. Alcatraz prison is then seen in the distance. The Golden Gate bridge is seen being constructed in the bay. 1 segment.</p>

BMA world tour. Part 1a, Across America.

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