TRIP TO MAZATLAN SINALOA, MEXICO 1940s HOME MOVIE LAMSA AIRLINES DC-3 49774

This silent, color film, shot in the 1950’s opens with a no-filter cigarette burning in a Belmar Hotel ashtray adorned in the center with a sailfish. The Hotel Belmar is Mazatlan’s original beach front hotel, located in the Olas Altas neighborhood. People stand on the tarmac in front of a LAMSA / Lineas Aereas Mexicanas, SA DC-3 airliner “Ciudad de Mazatlán“. (The airline operated from 1942-1952 so the film predates 1952. For a time, LAMSA was owned by United Airlines, and then was sold to Mexican investors and finally Aeronaves De México / Aeromexico.) The wing and propeller of the DC-3 is shown: 36. Four men board the DC-3 aircraft as an employee checks the men in :40. A man smokes a cigarette as he watches out the airplane window 1:05. Each man looks out his window at Mexico below 1:21. Aerial views of the Mexican landscape 1:32. Camera shot from over the wing with mountains in the distance can be seen 2:07. The plane arrives at the ocean 2:45. Aerial photos of Mazatlán 3:26. Aerial views of the city show