[1940 HOME MOVIE - VISIT TO ARKANSAS & TOMBSTONE, ARIZONA]

Dating to 1940, this amateur shot home movie shows various scenes. First, there is footage of sharecropper housing in Arkansas -- tar paper shacks including one with a billboard for Simoniz on the side starting at (:15). At (1:53) a highway sign for Arkansas U.S. Highway 67 and Highway 64, almost certainly somewhere between Beebe and Bald Knob. At (2:24) is a sign for Cook's Goldblume Beer and a rusting steel bridge over a river. At (2:41) is a color segment showing a new roadside motel with identical white cabins, followed by driving shots. At (3:25) are shots at an unknown Tombstone Arizona guest ranch, possibly the Monument Ranch. Guests wearing cowboy hats are seen with a guide on horseback. At 4:26 shots of prickly pear cacti. A (4:34) shots outside Tombstone's Crystal Palace saloon, then more shots at the guest ranch. The dinner bell is rung at (6:21). At (6:38), a shot of an American Airlines DC-3, tail #NC17339 at an airport, possibly the Douglas Arizona Airport or Tucson International Airport. At (7:38) more shots at the guest ranch including two children who are on horseback.