Welcome to Southern California (1945, sound)

Description: Content warning: The voiceover narration of this film speaks in a disparaging or patronizing manner about Chinese American and Mexican American culture. It also presents a laudatory and distorted characterization of the Spanish Missions that omits their violent and genocidal effects on the Indigenous peoples of California.
Railroad promotional film focusing on recreational opportunities in Southern California.
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Subjects: 1940s, Tourism, Leisure and recreation
Tags: post-World War II recovery; orange groves; Grauman's Chinese Theater; CBS Studios, Hollywood; NBC Studios, Hollywood; Radio Row; usher guiding GIs and others into studio tour; Santa Monica beach; golfing; Huntington Library; Rose Parade; Tournament of Roses; floats; Chinatown, Los Angeles; Olvera Street; El Pueblo de Los Angeles; crafts; racetracks; horse racing; horses; Catalina Island; Avalon Bay; peacocks; Bird Farm; swans; toucans; penguins; ostriches; glass-bottom boat; Lion Farm; Lions; bottle feeding a lion cub; lion walking on tightrope; ghost towns; desert wildflowers; horseback riding; dude ranches; camping; clowns; dog riding in radio flyer wagon; rodeos; bathing beauties; snow-capped peaks; ski lifts; rope tows; skiing; tobogganing; Franciscan missions; Mission San Juan Capistrano; swallows; Mission San Diego; Estudillo House; Ramona's Marriage Place sign; Casa de Bandini; Balboa Park; San Diego Zoo; elephants; gorillas; giraffes; parrots; bald eagles; archery; boosterism; train locomotives; beaches; sand; art museums; parade floats; dancing; horse track; boats; swimming pools; tennis; snow; botanical gardens; zoos; sailing; settler colonialism
Film Sponsor: Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
Creator: "Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway"
Credits: "A Santa Fe Production."
Distributor:
Contributor: Prelinger Archives
Source Collection: Gordon Elgart Collection, Prelinger Archives
Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive
Production Date:
Release Date: 1945
Geographical Location: USA; California; Southern California; Los Angeles, California; Los Angeles County, California; Santa Catalina Island, California; Santa Monica, California; Pasadena, California; Palm Springs, California; San Juan Capistrano, California; San Diego, California; Hollywood, California
Genre/Form: sponsored, travelogue
Language: eng
Rights: Copyright notice on film states:
"Copyright - MCMXLV by The Atchison - Topeka - and Santa Fe Railway Company All Rights Reserved".
Film Format: 16mm film
Element: release print
Color: color
Color Process: Kodachrome
Sound or Silent: sound
Film Soundtrack Type: variable area
Edge Code: circle circle circle
Frame Rate: 24 fps
Length (feet): 515