Has anyone seen or heard of a 1963 Warner Brothers motion picture short entitled "Vacationlands USA"? [?]
Last week's lengthy letter to Hemmings Classic Car about errors in the July 2006 1964 Daytona convertible article "landed" me a modestly-paid job reviewing a major Studebaker story for a further-out issue of HCC in which Studebakers will be featured. Apparently, they took my critique to heart and realized they were letting too many errors get to print, for which I admire their honesty.
Anyway, while researching information for that review, my mind wandered off course [)] and I started reading the May 1963 Studebaker News in a 1963 file box I had opened to look something up.
In that issue of Studebaker News is a story entitled, "Wagonaire Stars in Warner Brothers Movie." A new, 1963 Daytona Wagonaire is pictured with the slider forward and two kids standing up in the back (yeow; there goes the Legal Dept! [:0] ). The Wagonaire is carrying 1963 California black license plate FHP 969. The full caption to the photo is:
"Airy view is enjoyed by young Diane and David Beard during a Wagonaire cross-country tour of U.S. National Parks in "Vacationlands U.S.A," a Warner Brothers motion picture short-subject [film] soon to be seen in theatres throughout the nation. Arthur Godfrey narrates the color film, which shows the splendor of America's favorite National Parks Vacationlands."
Anybody seen this short-subject film? Anybody got connections at Warner Brothers to see if a copy exists? Such a film could be a real treat at a National or Zone SDC meet. (In fact, if anybody can scare up a copy, we'll show it in Omaha during The Co-Operator Tech Session so we don't have to answer so many questions! [] <GGG> BP
Last week's lengthy letter to Hemmings Classic Car about errors in the July 2006 1964 Daytona convertible article "landed" me a modestly-paid job reviewing a major Studebaker story for a further-out issue of HCC in which Studebakers will be featured. Apparently, they took my critique to heart and realized they were letting too many errors get to print, for which I admire their honesty.
Anyway, while researching information for that review, my mind wandered off course [)] and I started reading the May 1963 Studebaker News in a 1963 file box I had opened to look something up.
In that issue of Studebaker News is a story entitled, "Wagonaire Stars in Warner Brothers Movie." A new, 1963 Daytona Wagonaire is pictured with the slider forward and two kids standing up in the back (yeow; there goes the Legal Dept! [:0] ). The Wagonaire is carrying 1963 California black license plate FHP 969. The full caption to the photo is:
"Airy view is enjoyed by young Diane and David Beard during a Wagonaire cross-country tour of U.S. National Parks in "Vacationlands U.S.A," a Warner Brothers motion picture short-subject [film] soon to be seen in theatres throughout the nation. Arthur Godfrey narrates the color film, which shows the splendor of America's favorite National Parks Vacationlands."
Anybody seen this short-subject film? Anybody got connections at Warner Brothers to see if a copy exists? Such a film could be a real treat at a National or Zone SDC meet. (In fact, if anybody can scare up a copy, we'll show it in Omaha during The Co-Operator Tech Session so we don't have to answer so many questions! [] <GGG> BP
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