Videos
Jim's Video Real
Video Real is a short piece of edited video or film footage showcasing a person’s previous work. These are used by many kinds of people involved in film making and other media, including actors, animators, lighting designers, editors, models, and others.
Global Winter Wonderland
Imaginarium History.
In the year of 2011, a team of entertainment fanatics set out to create the first Chinese Lantern Festival in the US. The vision was to create an experience where attendees could adventure through a park filled with millions of lights, creating a “Global Winter Wonderland” for the entire family! Fast forward 12 years, and you have “Imaginarium.” one of the largest holiday light festival in the US.
New Ballards Bar Dam
New Bullards Bar Dam was constructed in the early 60s for flood control reservoir in response to a flooding event in 1955. The dam is the fourth constructed on the Bullards Bar site, succeeding diversion dam built in 1899 and 1900 as well as a 200-foot concrete arch dam. Although the 1899 diversion dam was washed away, the arch dam is still in place about a 1/4 mile downstream.
Lake Berryessa
Monticello Dam is a 304-foot high concrete arch dam in Napa County, California, United States, constructed between 1953 and 1957. The dam impounded Putah Creek to create Lake Berryessa 26-mile long reservoir. The dam is 100 thick at the base, tapering to 12 at the crest. The total volume of construction materials is 326,000 cubic yards. The dam is noted for its classic, uncontrolled morning-glory-type spillway. The diameter at the lip is 72 ft. Locally, the spillway is also known as the “Glory Hole”.
California State Capital
The structure was completed between 1860 and 1874, designed by San Francisco’s oldest architectural firms. Between 1949 and 1952, the Capitol’s apse was demolished to make way for the building’s expansion with the construction of the East Annex for offices of the Governor. From 1975 until 1982 the building underwent a major structural reconstruction for earthquake safety.
Kingsburg Water Tower
Kingsburg, Ca. was established as a railroad town in 1870, called “Kings River Switch”. In January 1894 took on its present spelling, “Kingsburg”. In the early 1870s, Swedish natives began settled in the town. By 1921, ninety-four percent of the population was Swedish-American, giving the community the nickname of “Little Sweden”.
Preston Castle
The Castle was built during the 1890s as a Youth Correctional Facility in Ione, California. There are horrific stories of abuse and neglect or killed by guards at the facility. A grounds cemetery has twenty-three graves. The State of California closed the facility in 1960.
Rancho Seco Nuclear plant
Rancho Seco Nuclear power plant is own by Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) operated from April 1975 to June 1989. Then it was decommissioned do to cost and problem with the equipment. It cost twice twice as much to produce electrict from Nuclear energy then gas.
Lake Clementine Dam
Lake Clementine is a reservoir on the American River Canyon near a California town of Auburn (elevation 1,200 feet) in Northern California. It was created in 1939 when the North Fork Dam, a 155-foot tall variable radius arch dam, was completed, for the purpose of containing gold-mining debris which were washing downriver. This reservoir lake is 3.5 miles long and 300 feet wide in some areas.
Old Sacramento, Ca.
Virtually all the buildings in this area date from the 19th century, the most notable dating back to the period immediately after the disastrous fire of 1852, and show a reasonable approximation of their original appearance, though they have required varying degrees of reconstruction to restore to them to that state. However, few if any still serve their original purpose, most of them now catering to tourists.
Hard Rock Sacramento
This was film the day before the grand opening. Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Sacramento at Fire Mountain celebrated its grand opening on October 30, 2019. The long name results from the partnership between Hard Rock International, owned by the Seminole Tribe of Florida, and the Estom Yumeka Maidu of the Enterprise Rancheria. The name Fire Mountain is derived from the legends and beliefs of the Enterprise Rancheria tribe, which sought cleansing and longevity from the fire water in the mountains.
Circus
Cirque Du Soleil is a Montreal-based entertainment company and the largest contemporary circus producer in the world. Located in the inner-city area of Saint-Michel, it was founded in Baie-Saint-Paul on 16 June 1984 by former street performers Guy Laliberté and Gilles Ste-Croix.
Auburn California
In the spring of 1848, a group of French gold miners arrived and camped in what would later be known as the Auburn Ravine. This group was on its way to the gold fields in Coloma, California, and it included Francois Gendron, Philibert Courteau, and Claude Chana. The young Chana discovered gold on May 16, 1848. After finding the gold deposits in the soil, the trio decided to stay for more prospecting and mining.
California State Lottery Office Building
The California State Lottery Act of 1984 was intended to provide more money to schools without imposing extra taxes. Lottery is required to provide at least 37% of its revenues to Public education, and 50% of its revenues must be paid to the public in the form of prize, with 13% the amount spent on administration.
Forest Hill Bridge
Open in 1973. The Foresthill Bridge, is a road bridge crossing over the North Fork American River in Placer and the Sierra Nevada foothills, in eastern California. It is the highest bridge by deck height in California, the fourth highest in the United States, and among the seventy highest in the world at 730 feet above the river.
California State Capitol
The structure was completed between 1861 and 1874. The Capitol and grounds were listed on the office of the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, and listed as a California Historical Landmark In 1974.
West Sacramento, California
West Sacramento is a city in Yolo County, California. The city is separated from Sacramento by the Sacramento River which also separates Sacramento and Yolo county. In 1844, John Schwartz, a Flemish traveler, was the first settle in the area of West Sacramento, which at that time was part of Mexico. He built a shack on the west bank of the Sacramento River six miles south of its connection with the American River. John, founded a salmon fishery along the river.
Canyon Lake
The lake was formed by the Mormon Flat Dam, which was completed in 1925 after two years of construction. Canyon Lake, with a surface area of 950 acres. The lake lies approximately 15 miles up the ApacheTrail from Apache Junction in Arizona and 51 miles east of Phoenix, Arizona
Thunder Valley Casino
Thunder Valley Casino Resort is owned by the United Auburn Indian Community, a Native American tribe consisting of mostly Miwuk and Maidu Indians indigenous to the Sacramento Valley region.
Train Wreck
This Train wreck in Northern California was caused during a heavy rain storm when the Cosumnes River going under the tracks overflowed and washing out the tracks.
I was informed by a railroad spokesperson that a Amtrak passenger train just went through there 20 minutes earlier with the speed of 50 mph.
Sacramento Old Rail Yard
The first rail yard in Sacramento as well as California and was finish being built by 1856. The maintenance yard were used for locomotive repairs, general maintenance and, occasionally, creation. The yards steadily expanded, becoming the biggest railroad facility west of the Mississippi River and employing approximately one-third of all Sacramento workers in the early decades of the 20th century.
Sacramento at Sunrise
Just a early morning drone flight over downtown Sacramento
Sacramento Fly Over
This is my my first video with my drone at this hight of 400 feet. The times before this flight was always at a match lower flight.
Toyota Amphitheater
The Toyota amphitheater is an outdoor amphitheater in unincorporated Yuba County. It lies in between Plumas Lake and Wheatlwand; 35 miles north of Sacramento and 10 miles south of Marysville. It holds 18,500 spectators and is primarily used for rock and county concerts. former names: Sacramento Valley Amphitheatre, AutoWest Amphitheatre, Sleep Train Amphitheatre
Nimbus Dam
The Nimbus Dam is a base load hydroelectric dam on the American River near Folsom, California. Approximately 8,700 acre feet of water is retained by the dam. It is responsible for the impoundment of water from the American River to create the Lake Natoma reservoir. The dam stands 87 feet and spans 1,093 feet. Opened: 1955
Elk Grove Outlet
In the year of 1988 the construction this mall was halted and abandon do to the economics downfall. For the next decade it got to be known as the ‘ghost mall’. Then in 1998 the Howard Hughes Corporation base out of Texas announced that the sight is to be demolished in 1999. Now a casino sits on the sight.
