Hyde Park (New York) 1983 archive footage

Hyde Park (New York) 1983

Archival footage shot by an amateur filmmaker while visiting the USA, probably in 1983 It contains stock footage of sites in Hyde Park, New York State: the Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site, the Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site, a guide talking with visitors in the park of the mansion, the interiors of […]

Beverly Hills 1973 archive footage

Beverly Hills 1973

Archival footage shot by an amateur filmmaker while visiting the USA in the summer of 1973. It contains stock footage of Beverly Hills, California: people visiting Harold Lloyd’s Greenacres Estate (Cascading fountains, the four-room old English-style house that was built for Lloyd’s four-year-old daughter, the pony stable), panoramas of the hills, view of mansions from […]

Hearst Castle 1977 archive footage

Hearst Castle 1977

Archival footage shot by an amateur filmmaker while visiting the USA in 1977 It contains stock footage of Hearst Castle in San Simeon, California, the vintage mansion of William Hearst, the publishing tycoon who inspired Orson Wells for the movie Citizen Kane: the sign of the castle (at the time already a State Historical Monument), […]