1962 United States

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A matador works a charging bull in a Los Angeles arena, and later men on horseback stand over the fallen animal. California supplies more of this 1962 footage than any other state. At Disneyland an elephant wades in a pool under a waterfall and fireworks burst at night, while floats and a marching band with cheerleaders move through Pasadena on a sunny morning. In San Diego a man hauls a fish from a boat and a naval ship sits at the dock. The backyards belong mostly to Glendale and Yorba Linda, with boys playing, a toddler in a high chair reaching for Mom at a picnic, and women holding black puppies in front of a mid-century house.

Winter fills the reels from the Northeast and Midwest. Skiers come down open slopes and wooded runs in Vermont and New Hampshire, where a red tracked vehicle stands on a snowy hill. In Hagerstown, Maryland, a couple shovels snow after a storm, a woman and boy measure a Christmas tree, and a man unwraps a gift in his armchair. A man pulls a child on a red sled in Lincoln, Nebraska, and weddings turn up in Moberly, Missouri, and Moline, Illinois. Florida runs warmer and stranger. Women in period costumes march in a parade, a ship fires a cannon in a harbor full of motorboats, and a carnival booth advertises the Human Snake Girl. Hawaii adds surf on a rocky shore and a waterfall lit purple, and the casino signs of Las Vegas glow after dark.

Useful for stories on bullfighting and amusement parks in Southern California, New England ski country, or Christmas at home in the early 1960s.