Calico 1982 archive footage
Archival footage shot by an amateur filmmaker while visiting the USA in 1982. It contains stock footage of Calico, a ghost town in California: the city sign on the top of a mountain, actors dressed like Old West people pretending to live in the town, the Fire Hall, the General Store, the Saloon and its […]
Pennsylvania 1973 archive footage
Archival footage shot by an amateur filmmaker while visiting the USA, probably in 1973. It contains stock footage of the State of Pennsylvania: people riding horses on an Amish village farm, a roadside market with typical American food and clothes, Amish women and men with long beards in the countryside, woodcutters at work with an […]
Americana 1980s: the Old West theme park archive footage
Archival footage shot by Otto Wolf, a Swiss filmmaker, while visiting the USA in 1980. It contains stock footage of one or two Old West theme park (one of them is for sure Bonnie Springs Ranch in Blue Diamond, Nevada): an 1880s western town replica, the stunts show (shootings, a man hanged), the Old Nevada […]
Calico 1983 archive footage
Archival footage shot by an amateur filmmaker while touring the USA in Autumn 1983. It contains stock footage of Calico, a ghost town in California: street signs from the bus window while arriving to town, the town’s name painted on the top of the mountina, the sightseeing train showing tourits the town, old shops and […]