1920s FRIESTEDT FAMILY HOME MOVIES BATTLEFIELDS LA JOLLA PHILADELPHIA HAVANA, CUBA R2 XD46104

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website These silent black and white home movies dated 1928-1930 from Arthur A. Friestedt and family open with a visit to Southern California (continued from Reel 1), then proceed to a history buff’s tour of the United States’ Civil War battlefields and national landmarks. The film concludes in Havana, Cuba (TRT: 57:22). Friestedt was the owner of the United States Music Company, a leading publisher of piano roll music for player pianos. His father Luther Friestedt was a member of the Sons of the American Revolution and an inventor who held patents for steel sheet pilings, among other things. A U.S. destroyer, the USS Mervine (DD-322), the scout cruiser USS Omaha entering San Diego Bay. Submarines in the channel. Rockwell Field (0:09). La Jolla, CA. A panorama reveals a garden, palm trees, the family automobile, coastal shoreline. A Pacific vista (1:21). Mission San Luis