Last month I posted about two "mystery" reels of film donated to the Catalina Island Museum. I finally got a chance to look at them with Jeannine Pedersen, the Museum's curator, on an old Island Company 16mm projector in the Projection Room of the Casino where I work.
While there wasn't as much aviation-oriented footage as I had hoped, there was at least one bathing beauty (pictured). Anyone recognize her?
CLICK HERE for a short (1 minute plus) video clip I made from the film that was simply labeled "Catalina 1947 & 1948". There is a great shot of a United DC-3 Mainliner at the end (Is that Leo Lambert flying?), but the only other airplane shots are a group of fighter planes that appear about halfway through.
Who can be first to identify the fighter planes???? Or for that matter, who can identify any of the people in this?
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