Of All Things #5: Las Vegas
1950s - Of All Things #5: Las Vegas - Title Card and Montage
"Of All Things!" title card. Superimposition of several moving images over one another: Airplane flying with trailing smoke/exhaust; oncoming locomotive; adult Caucasian man landing, water skiing; flower blooming; heron or stork taking off; scorpion; Capitol Building; fighter planes flying, one drops out of formation; anti-aircraft guns firing; groups of adult men and women surfing, boating on waves.
1950s - Of All Things #5: Las Vegas - Hotels and Gambling Venues
Las Vegas street scene; "Golden Nugget Gambling Hall" in the BG. Overview of traffic on street; El Rancho sign advertising Joe E. Lewis and Zsa Zsa Gabor, Thunderbird hotel. Pink Ford Thunderbird convertible arriving at Riviera Hotel. Adult Caucasian man and woman sitting at table on pool deck in FG; men and women at swimming pool in BG. Thunderbird hotel. Flamingo hotel; Judy Garland headlining. Wilbur Clark's Desert Inn hotel. Overview of man diving into pool; men and women lounging on pool deck, swimming. Waiter serving man and woman at a table outside. Traveling shots of Las Vegas, night; neon signs for Bagdad Inn, Holiday Inn, Golden Nugget, Lucky Strike Club, Skaggs Drug Center, Bentley's Trading Post. Neon Gambling sign. Las Vegas Club, exterior. Three slot machines. Dice on craps table. Chips on table; very dark. Lucky Strike Club, exterior. Riviera hotel, day.
1950s - Of All Things #5: Las Vegas - Activities and Attractions
Young Caucasian male and female couple stop in front of store with female mannequins wearing dresses, enter store. VS of Hoover Dam and Lake Mead. POV tracking two men water skiing. Group of men play golf at golf course. Men singles tennis match; men watching. Line of men and women on horseback on a trail. Chef braising chicken on rotisserie hearth oven. Couples, wearing formal attire, being shows to tables by maître d' at restaurant. Man using spoon to add cheese garnish to a salad bowl as another man watches. Neon signs; Pioneer Club featured, night.