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
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