1960s “SCHLEY RIDE TO WEST INDIES“ PICTURELOGUE BAHAMAS NEW ORLEANS LOUISIANA Reel 2 Part 2 XD46994

Love our channel? Help us save and post more orphaned films! Support us on Patreon: Even a really tiny contribution can make a difference. This film “Schley Ride to the West Indies“ is the second part of a four-segment feature filmed by Wisconsin amateur filmmaker Norman Schley. An accountant by trade, Schley also founded a travel industry film company called Picturelogue. Like many of his other films, this one was intended to be screened in front of a live audience, while Schley read from a prepared script. So, you will note that it while the soundtrack contains a lot of music, no narration is heard. This portion focuses primarily on the French Quarter of New Orleans; however, it opens with images of Fort Montague (:08) in the Bahamas. Still in the Bahamas, tourists sit around a garden area as a herd of flamingo’s run circles in front of them (1:18). The film then turns to the French Quarter in New Orleans (3:11) with Andrew Jackson’s statue in the center of a foun