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1) 0284.0021 [Meyer Davis--home movies] Reel 21
Series of scenes along the boardwalk at Cannes including shops, dogs, donkeys, small cars, tourists, street scenes in Grasse, outside Auteuil Race Track, Horse Racing and Specta...
21) 0284.0027 [Meyer Davis--home movies] Reel 27
Scenes of Willow Grove, an amusement park, with children, rides, flappers, arcades and crowds. A festival at Oak Lane Country Day School with children in costume, gymnastics, da...
27) 0284.0028 [Meyer Davis--home movies] Reel 28
Children playing on land and on boat. Pan of lake and speedboats. Meyer having a smoke. Hilda and the children playing and going on a boat ride. Shots of sailboats, docks, dogs,...
26) 0284.0030 [Meyer Davis--home movies] Reel 30
Swimming and rowing. A gathering on the porch with family and friends. Having fun by the lake. A costume party with little David dressed in blackface and other children dressed ...
24) 0284.0031 [Meyer Davis--home movies] Reel 31
The Lake Placid Ferry. Swimming with the children and Rube Bloom. Picnic at lake house. The Wachapreague Hotel [Virginia]. On the docks with Meyer and friends geting ready for f...
32) 0284.0032 [Meyer Davis--home movies] Reel 32
Views of Grand Canyon. Views of construction of Hoover Dam. Setting up for a polo match. Swimming and relaxing (possibly Peabody's house with Mr. and Mrs. Paul Muni). Visiting t...
33) 0284.0037 [Meyer Davis--home movies] Reel 37
Beach. Tourists. Lounging by the water. Includes men in ties. Brief shot of band. Nice beach scenes with tourists. Margie (a little girl) on golf course and in front of large ho...
30) 0284.0038 [Meyer Davis--home movies] Reel 38
At the Franklin D. Roosevelt Inaugural parade, Washington, D.C. Nice long shots of parade, good exposures. Crowd including Paul Muni and wife, street shots of crowds and friends...
9) 0284.0041 [Meyer Davis--home movies] Reel 41
Close-ups of Hilda and family at Lake Placid, pan of lake, Uncle Jake by lake. Davis' family and adult friends mugging for camera and kissing and dancing. Playing ball with chil...
36) 0284.0042 [Meyer Davis--home movies] Reel 42
Massive summer springs resort. Pan of Moosehead Lake. Greeting old woman. The Chateau Frontenac and horse-drawn carriage arriving there. Scenes of park. A wrecked car. Niagara F...
32) 0284.0044 [Meyer Davis--home movies] Reel 44
Margie playing on deck of cruise ship while adults play badminton. Nice overview of passengers lounging on deck, playing shuffleboard. Meyer and Margie playing. Nice interior pa...
33) 0284.0045 [Meyer Davis--home movies] Reel 45
Children playing on side of boat. Street scenes in Andean town. Pan of Andes. View of liner Lafayette. On the boat to visit Cartagena. Pan of Cartagena. Taking photos on top of ...
10) 0284.0046 [Meyer Davis--home movies] Reel 46
Margie and Meyer play in park and beach. Parade with floats. B&w, nice views of oak trees and spanish moss in Charleston. Group of men being photographed. Margie and friends dan...
5) 0284.0047 [Meyer Davis--home movies] Reel 47
Hilda and friends dancing, young girls with flowers, May Day celebration with May pole. Meyer Davis picketing against Warners [Warner Brothers?] regarding refusal to arbitrate w...
10) 0284.0048 [Meyer Davis--home movies] Reel 48
Road trip through Zion Canyon, view of mountains, family on horseback trip with many good views of western terrain, stables, pan of mountains, staff. Washed-out views of Chicago...
6) 0284.0050 [Meyer Davis--home movies] Reel 50
Color: Meyer & Hilda on deck, nice Kodachrome. B&w: Margie, Hilda and Meyer on deck with friends, on boat to Nassau. Swimming Bahamian holds on to boat. Pan of Nassau, street an...
23) 0284.0052 [Meyer Davis--home movies] Reel 52
Eddie Cantor appears with luggage and performs before camera. Rudy Vallee in sunglasses tips his cap to the camera beside Kezar Lake. Several people, including Meyer Davis, shoo...;// Meyer Davis Logbook: 'Rudy Vallee's camp, summer 1939. Ginny, Garry, M.D, Revues [?]. Farringtons 1939. Mr. and Mrs. Chapman. Bill Dasheff. Picnic, Liptons 1938. Butler's Bal...
6) 0284.0054 [Meyer Davis--home movies] Reel 54
Can notes: 'Cotuit, Summer 1939.' // Picnic on beach with good CUs. Good exposures. Color: back yard, showing off fashions. B&w scenes at Florida fishing resort, fishermen, Meye...
18) 0290.0004 [Frank Nash--home movies] Reel 4
Amateur: Snowy woods. Woman and girl in front of house. Aged woman in fur coat walks up. CU of woman (mother?) in hat. Small girl indoors with basket. Family leaving house. Smal...
8) 0290.0005 [Frank Nash--home movies] Reel 5
Amateur: Woman standing on swing. Other woman pushing girl on swing. Man holding ball. Family on rocky coast. Outdoor cookery. Family on boat eating. Pan shot of coast from boat...
5) 0291.0001 Florida/Panama to Tahiti, 1936-1937--Adelaide Pearson--home movies. Reel 1
Reel label: 'Florida to Tahiti.' Can label: 'Panama to Tahiti 1936-1937.' ;View of waves from a ship. A passing steam ship. (Film changes to black and white) A life jacket drill on ship. Panama Canal passage as viewed from the cruise ship, including sh...
1) 0291.0002 Tahiti to Fiji, 1937--Adelaide Pearson--home movies. Reel 2
Can label: 'Tahiti to Fiji Stella Polaris 2 1937.' ;A dance performance (possibly hula or otea), three women and one man performing, accompanied by guitars. Footage of dancers, slowed down. A man standing in the water, holding an...
3) 0291.0003 Fiji to Ceylon, 1939--Adelaide Pearson--home movies. Reel 3
Can label: 'Fiji to Ceylon Stella Polaris 3 1938.' ;Dance performance. (Fiji?) Dancers preparing kava. Dancers serving kava to tourists. (Film changes to black and white) Dance performance. Performers in masks and headdresses. Pe...
33) 0291.0004 Ceylon to Liberia, 1938-1939--Adelaide Pearson--home movies. Reel 4
Dancers and drummers, continues from previous reel. (Film changes to black and white) Same dancers. A covered wagon pulled by an ox. An elephant and mahouts by a stream. Boats b...;Ceylon would become Sri Lanka in 1972.
27) 0291.0005 Blue Hill to Jaipur, 1938-1939--Adelaide Pearson--home movies. Reel 5
Ferris wheel and fair scenes in front of Blue Hill harness race. On board a cruise ship, waves, the White Cliffs of Dover. A farm. Sheep. Scenes of the English countryside, a ra...;From Miss Adelaide Pearson Rowantrees Bluehill, Maine 1938 – 1939 Nov. 3 – Jan. 22 N.Y. – to – Benares Films to # 33 0 = C = 1 = C. ? (landing/wandering?) Chester (Chester to...
26) 0291.0006 Jaipur to Delhi, 1938-1939--Adelaide Pearson--home movies. Reel 6
Boys weaving. Jantar Mantar, (an equinoctial sundial) Jaipur. A cow turning a mill. A man and a boy in a storefront. (Film changes to color) Tourists getting on an elephant. Cam...;From Miss Adelaide Pearson Rowantrees Bluehill, Maine 1938 – 1939 Nov. 3 – Jan. 22 N.Y. – to – Benares Films to # 33 14 C - Batik workers : Camels (Amedabad) Jaipur – Sun Gat...
25) 0291.0007 Delhi to Elwins, 1938--Adelaide Pearson--home movies. Reel 7
A group of children sitting on the ground. Women and children on the street. People sitting on a rooftop. Girls carrying platters on their heads. People on the street. Shots ins...;From Miss Adelaide Pearson Rowantrees Bluehill, Maine 1938 – 1939 Nov. 3 – Jan. 22 N.Y. – to – Benares Films to # 33 23 – C. - Delhi potters painting : Agra Fort : - Taj 25 –...
5) 0291.0008 Elwins to Calcutta, 1938--Adelaide Pearson--home movies. Reel 8
Rock formation. Village scenes. Children and adults. Men and boys performing an acrobatic dance. A group of children. Children on a swing. Shots of the village. A western man wa...;FROM Miss Adelaide Pearson Rowantrees Bluehill, Maine Jan. 22, 1939 to March 22nd Benares – To – Saigon Indo China Films to # 64 C Films 37, 38, 39 B+W Elwins Finished...;Mahatma Gandhi at Sevagram ashram near Wardha, India, where he lived from April 1936 to near the end of his life.
2) 0291.0009 Calcutta to Bangkok, 1936-1937--Adelaide Pearson--home movies. Reel 9
People making offerings. (?) Shots of a town street. Goats. Women carrying baskets on their heads. Beggars. Boats on a river. (Film changes to color) A temple. A garden. Boats o...;FROM Miss Adelaide Pearson Rowantrees Bluehill, Maine Jan. 22, 1939 to March 22nd Benares – To – Saigon Indo China Films to # 64 C Films 47 B+W Calcutta – Kali Temple River Tr...
15) 0291.0010 Bangkok to Angkor--Adelaide Pearson--home movies. Reel 10
Standing Buddha shrine. Monks washing beside a canal (klong). Panning shot of temple (wat) roof and klong. (Wat Benchamabophit, Bangkok, Thailand) Wat entrance with yaksha statu...;FROM Miss Adelaide Pearson Rowantrees Bluehill, Maine Jan. 22, 1939 to March 22nd Benares – To – Saigon Indo China Films to # 64 C Films 53 - C – Bangkok – Palace + Temple encl...
19) 0291.0011 Angkor to Peking, 1938-1939--Adelaide Pearson--home movies. Reel 11
A road. Musicians carrying instruments. Dancers performing in front of Angkor Wat. (Siem Reap, Cambodia) The Cambodian Royal Palace. (with French flags) A funeral procession. Mo...;FROM Miss Adelaide Pearson Rowantrees Bluehill, Maine Jan. 22, 1939 to March 22nd Benares – To – Saigon Indo China Films to # 64 C Films 62 C – Siem Reap = Pra Khom Pre Rup – P...
16) 0291.0012 Peking to Blue Hill, 1938-1939--Adelaide Pearson--home movies. Reel 12
Imperial palace and Temple of Heaven in Peking (Beijing). A procession of boys carrying tasseled poles. A procession of men in white carrying crosses. Pall bearers carrying a co...
3) 0291.0015 Asiatic Potters, India 1938-1939
Titled amateur film: 'Asiatic Potters India 1938-39.' 'Our first Hindu Potter...' etc. Amritsar. 'Miss Paddock, judging the workmanship of the ware.' Good CUs. // Original foota...;Title card: 'Our First Hindu Potter Note how he turns his wheel. The only potter we saw who tooled the bottom of his piece.' A potter using a potter’s wheel to make a pot out of...
4) 0291.0016 [Asiatic Potters, 1938-1939]
Appears to be part of 0291.0015. // Film on Puri leper potters and their methods. Japan. Calcutta. Pegu, Burma; Kuala Lumpur, Bienhoa, French Indochina; Annam. // Original foota...;Title card: 'The leper potter of Puri. Large pots are thrown without bottoms then batted over a stone till thin, well-shaped and dec-orated.' A man pats a bottom-less pot into s...
22) 0660.0001 Blue Hill Class Reel 1
Date from edge code on film. // About 20 people in chairs draw people on lawn. Cow is led about in front of them. Shot is from rear of students. Boy climbs on donkey and is led ...;A woman with a donkey stands in front of a group of students with notebooks. A boy leads the donkey in front of the group. The boy sits on the donkey while another boy leads it....
14) 0660.0002 Blue Hill Class Reel 2
Date from edge code on film. // Pekinese dogs on lawn. Asian girl, about 5 years old, gestures, dressed in robe. Waters flowers. Goose. Boy does somersault on lawn, plays in spr...;Three Pekinese dogs on the lawn. Pekinese and Pekinese puppies playing tug-a-war with a person off screen. Close up shots of the dogs. An Asian woman and little girl. Shot of th...
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