https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/5bfb322c-0401-406b-b640-99736263e777 Shot by an unknown tourist in Kodachrome, this color home movie was made in 1947 and shows Southern Arizona highways, monuments, missions and the town of Tombstone. It begins with a shot of the cover of the popular magazine "Arizona Highways". Opening titles: Arizona Highways March 1947 (:08). A boy sitting on the grass flips through the magazine (:16). Frontier Lodge neon sign, probably the hotel in Phoenix, Arizona; the moon in the night sky; desert at night (:26). Car parked near a sign that reads: Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in Pima County (:42). Organ pipe cactuses and mountains near Tucson (:58). Sign that reads: Sahuaro National Monument (1:38). Sahuaro cactuses near the side of different roads and trails (1:44). Sunset in the desert (2:20). Sign for Mission San Xavier del Bac; the Mission (2:38). Sign for: Tumacacori National Monument; outside of the monument (3:26). Statue of Father Kino (3:44) Sign for: Welcome to Tombstone and Boothill Graveyard (4:20). Tombstone, AZ; Schieffelin Hall, a museum, a building from the American Old West in Tombstone, the largest standing adobe structure still existent in the United States southwest (4:31). City Hall in Tombstone; O.K. Corral (4:47) scene of the famous gunfight. The Bird Cage Theatre (5:05). Boothill Graveyard (5:12). 5:31 tombstone of John Heath, lynched by Bisbee mob. At 5:53, the famous tombstone for Lester Moore, four shots from a .44, no Les, no More. Sign for Chiricahua National Monument; the monument (5:58). Massai Point sign (6:18). Rocks and mountains (6:23). Car parked on the side of an Arizona highway (6:52). Rock formations; cactuses (7:03). Flowers (7:34). Sign for Tonto National Monument; flower on a prickly pear in the monument (7:48). A woman and man walk around inside the monument (8:04). Indian ruins (8:10). Cactuses on a hillside; some flowers on the hill (8:26). Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. We collect, scan and preserve 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. If you have films you'd like to have scanned or donate to Periscope Film, we'd love to hear from you. Contact us via the link below. 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 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R92ndrRlyi8 Mirrored from Periscope Film (https://www.youtube.com/@PeriscopeFilm) Sat, 13 Jun 2026 15:30:45 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.dngr.us https://peertube.dngr.us/lazy-static/avatars/41a6fee9-7f57-42d0-a5fc-5db4f1af2e31.png https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/5bfb322c-0401-406b-b640-99736263e777 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.dngr.us/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.