SS Nantucket to Savannah - 1928
Now while I mostly specialize in ocean liners, here's an odd little film that defnitely tickled my fancy. It's from 1928 and records the journey of a group a travelers aboard the coastal steamer Nantucket as they sailed from Jacksonville, Florida to one of my favorite cities in the world: Savannah, Georgia. There's a very strange sequence in which the ship's doctor administers some kind of "seasickness" cure to a woman on deck. The film closes with some men dancing around in drag -- it's included here even though I couldn't tell if it was part of the original Nantucket footage. Music is from the CD Paul Whiteman's Historic Aeolian Hall Concert of 1924. The next film was shot during a cruise to Nassau aboard the Oceanic in 1966. That' the Zeili Band playing the ship's own theme, The Oceanic Song. Next up is what I thought was a transatlantic aboard the Bremen in 1930, but I can't explain the exterior shot of the ship taken from what looks like a tender. Any ideas, email me. Music is once again from The Great Dance Bands Play Hits of the Thirties. The Queen Mary was well-known in the World War II years as a troop transport. Our next film begins with News Of The Day newsreel footage of her first return to New York bringing the boys home, then segues into some color home movies of the venerable ship on a voyage to England while she was still in her Grey Ghost livery -- except with her red and black funnels! Next up are some bawdy games aboard a Homeric cruise to Barbados, year unknown. Music is by the Jimmie Thurston Orchestra. And finally for this page, home movies of the Queen Mary's arrival in Long Beach in 1967, set to music from Weekend en Mer. As always, your feedback is welcome! Again, please enjoy these movies here and please, please, please don't copy, thanks!
Cruising
on Oceanic - 1966
SS Bremen - 1930
Queen Mary
Brings the Boys Home!
SS Homeric - Barbados
Cruise
Queen Mary
Arrives Long Beach, CA 1967
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