https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/c5875b95-ff1d-48b5-9f16-3adf2828f84f Note: this film has a slight warp which we were unable to correct. Made in the year 1945, WELCOME TO SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA was produced by the Santa Fe Railroad to entice visitors to come to the Golden State. The film is full of lush images of Southern California, from Hollywood to Catalina Island (7:00 minutes), Santa Monica and Malibu, the Will Rogers Polo Field (2:20), the Rose Parade (3:00) and Rose Bowl Game, Huntington Gardens, Los Angeles' Chinatown (4:15), Olvera Street, Hollywood Park, a lion farm (8:00), a ghost town (9 minutes), Catholic mission (12 minutes), Ramona's Marriage Place (13:00), and much more. 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 and 2k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETfJpqjnQ-g Mirrored from Periscope Film (https://www.youtube.com/@PeriscopeFilm) Fri, 12 Jun 2026 03:38:26 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/c5875b95-ff1d-48b5-9f16-3adf2828f84f 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.