While visiting Curator Jeannine Pedersen at the Catalina Island Museum last Thursday, I discovered two reels of 16mm footage in her office.
One of them, donated by Chuck Liddell, is evidently a short Rotary or Lion's Club "travellogue" that was filmed in Avalon in 1947 and 1948. I am hoping against hope that there will be some seaplane footage in there. If there is, it would be either Amphibian Air Transport or, possibly, California Maritime Airlines with their PBY Catalinas.
There will almost certainly be some rare footage of the United "Mainliner" up at the airport in there.
The other reel is simply labeled "Catalina, New Year's, 1939" and I can't wait to see what's in there!
Sometime within the next couple of weeks, I will get a chance to view these films (Jeannine has not even seen them yet) and when I find out what's on them, you'll be the first to know.
