Year

1960 (circa)

Video Details

14:30; color; sound; V-12 CA028; S.828

Description

This film begins in Pensacola. Viewers see Fort Pickens, Blue Angels and the Naval Air Station. The film moves to Panama City, where viewers see people frolicking in the surf and teens with a guitar. In Tallahassee, the film shows Apalachee Parkway toward the Old Capitol, FSU and Killearn Gardens State Park (now Alfred B. Maclay Gardens State Park). Viewers see Rainbow Springs' "submarine boats" and Weeki Wachee. At Tarpon Springs, a diver puts on a suit and jumps in. Also shown are Tampa Bay hotels, fishing party boats, tarpon fishing, horse and dog races, jai-alai, baseball spring training, golf, boating and skiing. The film also shows Cypress Gardens, Busch Gardens, Sarasota's Horn's Cars of Yesterday and Sarasota Jungle Gardens. Viewers see the Ringling Brothers Circus in Venice, the Edison Home in Fort Myers and the Caribbean Gardens in Naples. Produced by Beckley Films and FDC; sponsored by Eastern Airlines and FDC.

Contributors

Beckley Films
Eastern Airlines
Florida Development Commission

Corporate Subject

Busch Gardens (Tampa, Fla.)
Caribbean Gardens (Naples, Fla.)
Cypress Gardens (Winter Haven, Fla.)
Florida State University (Tallahassee, Fla.)
Fort Pickens (Pensacola, Fla.)
Horn's Cars of Yesterday (Sarasota, Fla.)
Alfred B. Maclay Gardens State Park (Tallahassee, Fla.)
Pensacola Naval Air Station (Pensacola, Fla.)
Rainbow Springs (Dunnellon, Fla.)
Ringling Brothers Circus
Sarasota Jungle Gardens (Fla.)
Thomas Edison Estate (Fort Myers, Fla.)

Geographic Subject

Fort Myers
Naples
Panama City Beach
Pensacola
Sarasota
Tallahassee
Tampa
Tarpon Springs
Venice
Weeki Wachee Springs
Winter Haven

Subject

Blue Angels (Flight squadron)
Boating
Circuses
Fishing
Gambling-Florida
Horse racing
Hotels
Major League Baseball
Promotional films
Tarpon fishing
Tourism
Water sports
Water skiing