News on Screen

Series

Series Name

Colour Pictorial

Issue

Issue No.

741

Date Released

6 Mar 1969

Date recorded

23 Jan 1969

Length of issue (in feet)

807

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. Las Vegas and the Wild West

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 1

Summary

Pathe synopsis: You still go by mule down Angel trail if you want to get to the bottom of the Grand Canyon. In vast areas of Arizona and Nevada the Wild West is unchanged. But the great Hoover Dam has made a difference, providing electric power and a man-made desert reservoir that stretches through a valley 115 miles in length. The result: you’ve got green golf courses fed by a million gallons of water a day, you’ve got swimming pools and playgrounds where, once, there was just arid rock. And you’ve got - Las Vegas, the razzle-dazzle gambling city where it is brighter and lighter at midnight than at mid-day and where the fun goes on non stop every twenty-four hours of the day.

Keywords

Buildings and structures; Scenery and travel

Written sources

Pathe Colour Pictorial Lobby Cards   Used for synopsis

Credits:

Commentator

Wilfrid Thomas

Length of story (in feet)

747

Story extras:

Film clip

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Notes

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