Year

1960 (circa)

Video Details

16:35; b&w; silent; V-78 CA168; S. 828

Description

This film has a mixture of scenes shot over 25 years (until the early 1960s) at Cypress Gardens. It starts with a short comedy sequence. Then, American Indians dance around a group of ski stars on land and a skier greets a group of American Indians on a beach. Dick Pope drives a golf ball global around the property and goes from shot to shot driving a 1957 Continental pulling a trailer with his golf cart in it. Pope poses with Victor Borge. There is a synchronized swimming sequence, a segment that shows clowns skiing and footage of children jumping rope. Viewers also see the parking lot, ski show shots, hula-hooping Hawaiians, Hawaiians learning to ski, beauty queens and conquistadors parading and posing, a skier and a model in a boat, and Dick Pope playing piano on a raft towed behind a boat as a skier performs to his music. Produced and sponsored by Cypress Gardens.

Contributors

Cypress Gardens

Corporate Subject

Cypress Gardens (Winter Haven, Fla.)

Geographic Subject

Winter Haven

Personal Subject

Borge, Victor
Pope, Dick, 1900-1988

Subject

Amusement parks
Attractions
Conquistadors (Portrayals)
Golf
Native Americans (Portrayals)
Piano
Promotional films
Recreation
Tourism
Water skiing
Water sports
Wildlife