Shortest Way Home
Identifier
F.2005-01-0067
Date Of Production
circa 1951
Abstract
A Wilding Picture Productions film used to promote travel by Greyhound bus, using one soldier’s travels to highlight great cities, historic sites, and tourist attractions across America as he follows his war nurse all over the country to confess his love.
Log
00:00 - opening credits
00:44 - HA plane flying over the mountains, FSA landing
01:14 - wounded soldier flirts with nurse, cut to soldier at home in Wisconsin having trouble adjusting, kept pics of nurse and war buddies, dad helps him plan a trip to visit his war friends scattered across the U.S. to cheer him up
04:45 - dad sees him off, trip starts on a Chicago Greyhound bus, he talks to the woman next to him about the perks of bus travel, they sight see out the window and give facts about the places they pass
06:20 - Native Americans in small boats knock wild rice growing in the water to collect in their boat
06:37 - VS Mackinac Island, MI, fort, trading post, horse and buggies, SA “longest porch in the world”
07:38 - VS Detroit, General Motors automobile factory, Greenfield Village houses in this historic neighborhood
08:54 - MLS Greyhound station, bus pulling out of garage
09:30 - VS Cincinnati, OH, boat on Ohio River, cityscape in background
10:15 - Kentucky, PAN fenced bluegrass field of horses, “horse capital,” ranch, people walking with racehorse, horses running on track, statue at horse graveyard
11:39 - VS Greyhound bus passing through Pennsylvania turnpike, bus POV through tunnels in mountains
13:54 - VS New England, Plymouth Rock, Faneuil Hall, Boston Harbor (Boston Tea Party locations), Paul Revere home and historical sites, Boston Commons park filled with people
16:03 - soldier hears nurse is in VS Williamsburg, VA Bruton Parish Church, Governor’s Palace, jail and pillory, trip becomes a search for the nurse when he finds he is a few steps behind her on the trip
17:28 - VS Greyhound bus boarding, interior, on the road, soldier sees the nurse leaving Williamsburg on another Greyhound bus at a station, he switches buses to catch up with her
19:10 - VS Smokey Mountains, people living and working in Appalachian towns
20:48 - VS Pee Dee River, FA people singing “Way Down Upon the Pee Dee (Swanee) River” on bus
21:37 - VS Miami, FL ocean, cityscape, Box Singing Tower in Lake Wales
22:47 - VS Native Americans Seminole Tribe of Florida in huts, sewing garments, fishing in boat with spears
23:41 - VS Memphis, TN downtown streets, TS shops, Forrest Park
24:42 - VS New Orleans, LA wrought iron gate, girl on balcony, Jackson Square, St. Louis Cathedral, Cabildo Museum, Napoleon House, Pirate’s Alley
25:55 - VS Houston, TX - cowboys herding cattle in desert, nurse is here while soldier heads to California
28:04 - VS Los Angeles, CA, TS Chinese Theater, Radio City, Earl Carroll Theatre, Wilshire Brown Derby in Hollywood
28:55 - San Francisco, HA Bay, cityscape, bridges, Twin Peaks, University Campus, Missions, Chinatown
30:38 - VS Yellowstone National Park, geyser, hot springs, mud volcano, Yellowstone Canyon, waterfall, Petrified Forest, deer and elk in wildlife preserve, bird sanctuary, fly fisherman, people riding horseback
33:50 - Salt Lake City, Sea Gull Monument, soldier is about to give up and go home, they cross paths before he leaves
36:00 - soldier and nurse return home to Sauk Center together, TS driving through mountains, THE END
00:44 - HA plane flying over the mountains, FSA landing
01:14 - wounded soldier flirts with nurse, cut to soldier at home in Wisconsin having trouble adjusting, kept pics of nurse and war buddies, dad helps him plan a trip to visit his war friends scattered across the U.S. to cheer him up
04:45 - dad sees him off, trip starts on a Chicago Greyhound bus, he talks to the woman next to him about the perks of bus travel, they sight see out the window and give facts about the places they pass
06:20 - Native Americans in small boats knock wild rice growing in the water to collect in their boat
06:37 - VS Mackinac Island, MI, fort, trading post, horse and buggies, SA “longest porch in the world”
07:38 - VS Detroit, General Motors automobile factory, Greenfield Village houses in this historic neighborhood
08:54 - MLS Greyhound station, bus pulling out of garage
09:30 - VS Cincinnati, OH, boat on Ohio River, cityscape in background
10:15 - Kentucky, PAN fenced bluegrass field of horses, “horse capital,” ranch, people walking with racehorse, horses running on track, statue at horse graveyard
11:39 - VS Greyhound bus passing through Pennsylvania turnpike, bus POV through tunnels in mountains
13:54 - VS New England, Plymouth Rock, Faneuil Hall, Boston Harbor (Boston Tea Party locations), Paul Revere home and historical sites, Boston Commons park filled with people
16:03 - soldier hears nurse is in VS Williamsburg, VA Bruton Parish Church, Governor’s Palace, jail and pillory, trip becomes a search for the nurse when he finds he is a few steps behind her on the trip
17:28 - VS Greyhound bus boarding, interior, on the road, soldier sees the nurse leaving Williamsburg on another Greyhound bus at a station, he switches buses to catch up with her
19:10 - VS Smokey Mountains, people living and working in Appalachian towns
20:48 - VS Pee Dee River, FA people singing “Way Down Upon the Pee Dee (Swanee) River” on bus
21:37 - VS Miami, FL ocean, cityscape, Box Singing Tower in Lake Wales
22:47 - VS Native Americans Seminole Tribe of Florida in huts, sewing garments, fishing in boat with spears
23:41 - VS Memphis, TN downtown streets, TS shops, Forrest Park
24:42 - VS New Orleans, LA wrought iron gate, girl on balcony, Jackson Square, St. Louis Cathedral, Cabildo Museum, Napoleon House, Pirate’s Alley
25:55 - VS Houston, TX - cowboys herding cattle in desert, nurse is here while soldier heads to California
28:04 - VS Los Angeles, CA, TS Chinese Theater, Radio City, Earl Carroll Theatre, Wilshire Brown Derby in Hollywood
28:55 - San Francisco, HA Bay, cityscape, bridges, Twin Peaks, University Campus, Missions, Chinatown
30:38 - VS Yellowstone National Park, geyser, hot springs, mud volcano, Yellowstone Canyon, waterfall, Petrified Forest, deer and elk in wildlife preserve, bird sanctuary, fly fisherman, people riding horseback
33:50 - Salt Lake City, Sea Gull Monument, soldier is about to give up and go home, they cross paths before he leaves
36:00 - soldier and nurse return home to Sauk Center together, TS driving through mountains, THE END
Run Time
36 min 7 sec
Format
16mm
Extent
1,345 feet
Color
Color
Sound
Optical
Reel/Tape Number
1/1
Has Been Digitized?
Yes
Language Of Materials
English
Element
Print
Genre
Form
Subject
Related Collections
Related Places
Sponsor/client
Main Credits
Wilding Picture Productions (is production company)
Additional Credits
Wilding Picture Productions (is contributor)
Greyhound Lines (is contributor)
Rosencrans, Leo (is writer)
Participants And Performers
Fraser, Richard (is actor)
Gray, Beatrice (is actor)
Vogan, Emmett (is actor)
Kellogg, Bruce (is actor)
Allen, Joel (is actor)
Murphy, Bill “Red” (is actor)
Slater, Lee (is actor)
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