Period piece of 1920's starring Roger Clapp and Dorothy Stebbins;Reel 1 – Happy days pt. 1 “The Clappian Studios Present”, “A Greater Discrepancy entitled…..”, “Happy Days”, “or The Piccolo Player’s Pitiful Plight”, “Conceived in the Spirit ...

Amateur stage play directed by Roger Clapp and starring Dorothy Stebbins;“Infamous Players Present The Great Discrepancy”, “Or Roaming on the Foaming”, “Under the Patronage of”, shot of a woman wearing a cloche sitting in a car. “With a distinguishe...

1927 Dorothy Stebbins - Round the World trip Japan and China #1 / "Empress of Asia";Vancouver B.C. Harbor aboard the S.S. Empress of India: Gangplank of ship being withdrawn. People throwing paper streamers. Shot of crowd waving on the pier. The ship pulls a...;Dorothy bought her camera for this trip around the world. In a letter home to her mother on 10/12/1927 Dorothy wrote, "I went to an Eastman store and got instructions on how to...

1927 Dorothy Stebbins - Round the World Trip - Indo-China (Thailand, Cambodia) / Indo-China, 1927 - Angkor, [Phnom] Penh, Ream, Ream to Bankok on S.S. Bhanunangsi, Bankok;A western woman and an Asian boy walk toward the camera. A young woman in cloche hat (Kay) filming the boy and talking to the woman. Saigon?: Street scenes. Horse carts and c...

1927 Dorothy Stebbins - Round the World Trip - India / Calcutta, Darjeeling, Benares, Agra, Fatehpur Sikri, Delhi;Calcutta: Temple. Footage shot from a train. Store fronts and street shot from a moving vehicle. A boy, a woman. More store fronts. People bathing in pools. Street market. ...

1927 Dorothy Stebbins - Round the World Trip - India to Cairo #4 India 1927: Peshawar, Khyber Abb'd, Kashmir, Jaipur, "Raiualpindi" Cairo;Peshwar: Busy street. Men in turbans. Army post? Sign “Notice Visitors are strictly forbidden to enter the [?] perimeter By Order” (1:03) A woman in a long coat and hat (Dorot...

(Original reel out of order and splices backwards to forwards to backwards to forwards. Where splices were evident put together and tried to figure out original order. Origina...

1927 Dorothy Stebbins - Round the World Trip - Italy, Austria, & Switzerland #6 Italy, Austria, & Switzerland "Carmania";A woman in 1920’s dress on a tree lined dirt road. Women eating on an outdoor patio with waiters – Dorothy’s mother Ada, sister Frannie, and Mrs. Chase. Swans in a pool. Chil...

Stebbins Family (Ada, Harry, Frannie, Dorothy, and Grandma Hunt and Oohlah) and friends, 1930 Homes in Newton and Duxbury, Mass; Pop and Denny Green; Steb's movie-making gang: S...;A man in shorts and a tank top (swimming suit) carrying a towel walks toward a house with a woman and a dog. Two women climb on porch rail getting something out of vines and pl...

Sailing, 1934-1937: Mañana, Nordly - Newfoundland, Cape Breton, weekend sails, Bermuda; Steb, Chet, Charlie Young, Jim Rogers, Semaphore, sextant.;Rough water in the harbor. Man bailing water out of a dinghy in the pouring rain. Loads luggage onto the boat. Dinghy leaves. Pan of the deck. Man spear fishing off the bow...

Sailing Trip to Cape Breton/Nordlys, 1935 Steb, Chet, Charlie Young, Jim and Marvel Adams Ct. River: mouth of river, Saybrook light houses and railroad bridge 2-3 masted schoone...;Unsteady shot of the mast, pan down to the deck and the water. Quick shot of Dorothy at the helm. Several shots of the boat. Footage taken from halfway up the mast. (High Co...

1936 - Saybrook: B & Ches sledding, skating, railroad station, Nana Papa; pond at Essex?;A spaniel plays fetch in a snowy yard. Chet in a long fur coat stands with another couple and a dog while Chester plays in the yard in and out of frame. The other man picks up...

Saybrook, 1936 Ches and B, Steb, Chet Baby Cynnie Nordlys/sailing Saybrook beach/light house George Stevenson Hamburg Fair? Grmummy Bowles, Nana, Papa;[Reel has heavy vinegar syndrome and the emulsion is peeling away. Image is clear but covered with fractal patterns throughout, worse at tail]. Chet shows Frannie how to use ...

Film 10B: 1934 - B and Ches 1936 - Saybrook: Topsy, George, Ches rowing 1937 - Saybrook: Ches birthday, swimming, fishing, beginning of sailing trip with Lunds, Devil's Hopyard...;[Emulsion peeling so image appears to have fractals over it] Chester and Barbara at the beach with another little girl. Chester finds a crab and shows it to the camera. Group ...;Notes from the family: "Stone structure is old Fort Tyler, located at eastern end of Long Island. Dates to the Spanish-American War when it was built as a defense for New Yor...

1937-1938 Saybrook: B, Ches, Cynnie, Sally Cyn's 1st birthday (Frannie, Grmummy Bowles, Uncle Allen) Swim Meet Hadlyme ferry Skiing, sledding, playing football River at Saybrook...;Baby Cynthia outside in a play pen. A woman comes over and resituates her. Cynthia smiling at the camera. Cynthia in playpen on porch, Chester plays with a balloon nearby. P...

Mainly Seabrook, 1938-1939 Hurricane: Saybrook and Esex (Dyke's, Dauntless Shipyard, Steamboat Dock) Cynnie, Sally, B, Ches on stilts, Ches playing ball with Chet Woods at Hayde...;Color: Damage from the hurricane of 1938. Chet and another man move limbs out of the yard. Children walk down the road, pan to down power line poles, uprooted trees, and broke...

1939 - Clearing land and building house in Essex #13 Work horses; Tom Grines, Tom McWhinney, C.P. Burdick; Architect: James G. Rogers Sr.; Uncle Allen's birthday: baby Sam, Sall...;Color: A man (Chet) walks amongst burning brush and felled trees. Men throw more brush on the fire. A man uses an ax to cut branches off a tree. B&W: Chet making food by ...

Sailing/Nordlys 1940 - To Bermuda and return: Steb, Chet, Al and Dorothy Stanford, Van Van Slyke, Charlie Young, Irving Adams, Bermuda street scenes, Hurricane (?) on return tri...;Color - Rough seas shot from the deck of the boat (Nordlys) as the boat rocks wildly up and down. Man with blond hair and a sweater (Alfred Stanford) sits on the deck with a wo...;On their return from Bermuda in April 1940 the Nordlys hit bad weather and the sail was damaged. The ship was delayed for six days and the Coast Guard had began looking for the...

1940 - Essex and Sailing #15 Cynnie, Sally, Sam Ox up-rooting bush, goat Nurse Ellen Clearing Pond Putting up flag pole Making tennis court and playing B, Ches, Nana, Papa, Fran...;B&W: Sally walking in the grass, behind her men are digging up a tree. Also in the scene are an ox and a goat. Sally petting the goat. Ox starts to pull the tree up, but ...

1940-1941 - Essex and sailing B, Ches, Cynnie, Sally, Sam Chet and B playing football Rock at Selden's Creek Ches, Jim, and Honey Lou Rogers building dam across marsh Charlie Yo...;B&W Cynthia and Sally in raincoats holding hand walking in front of the house toward the camera. Cynthia and Sam in the backyard, Sam is carrying a deflated football. Shot...

Washington D.C. and Essex, 1945-1950 1945: Ball Game (OPA families) at Washington monument Essex: St. Bernards (Jimmy), skating, bringing in Christmas tree, skiing, Doug Bennet ...;Color: Baseball game on the national mall in Washington DC. The Washington Monument and the Smithsonian in the background. Families on blankets along the sideline watching. K...

1951-1952: Essex/India/Essex Elsie Jackman, Ches, Holly, Tim Leaving for India Trip to India - Chamonix - Mt. Blanc Over India - Taj Mahal First party House, servants and famili...;Family films of sailing and children playing in the yard at the family home in Essex, Connecticut, and the family activities in India.;A toddler (Tim) walking in the yard. A woman (Elsie Jackman) watches him. Holly and Chester with Tim and a couple dogs. Sally and Sam get in the car with Chet. The car drive...

India, 1951-1952 Village Development Project - Stahwah, UP: pump, village, carpenter shop, meeting Taj Mahal Kerala: bullock cart, wild baby elephant in trap, work elephants Ker...;Village Development Project: Chet talking to some Indian men by an irrigation system. Pan of Indian village. Cows in stables, a man working on a wooden wheel, camels. Dark fo...

1952 - India, Bangkok, Bagnio North India Fair Spinning Steb, Chet, Sally, Sam - vacation in Kashmir, houseboat, shikara Shalimar gardens Trip to Bangkok - life on and around th...;Large crowds gathered at a fair. Women wearing colorful saris and headdresses. People on camels. A woman sitting on a blanket spinning yarn. People rowing boats full of flow...

1952 - India Picnic/Hauz Khaz (old city outside Delhi) Jean Joyce Delhi Public School - games Sally Sevagram (Gandhi's village) -spinning, irrigation, plowing, Leper Hospital, M...;Hauz Khaz, Delhi: Chet, Cynthia, and Sally sitting with some Indian women outside in a park. Sam playing catch. Families picnicking in the park. The Bowles children playing w...

1952 - India Embassy reception - Nehru, movie stars, students, Pres. Rajendra Prasad, Nehru and sister (Vijayalakshmi Pandit) Lodhi Park (behind our house) Our house - 17 Ratend...;Embassy reception: Unfocused shot of Nehru and Chet greeting guests. LS of guests milling around outside the United States Embassy on the lawn. US flag on top of the building...

Trips to Nepal - 1952, 1953 (3 reels) #1 1952 overland trip to Khatmandu for formal presentation of Chet to King Delhi train station passing villages (N. India) trail through mo...;[Overland trip to Katmandu] Chet, Dorothy, Cynthia, Sally, and Sam on the tarmac walking toward a plane surrounded by officials. A man shakes Chet’s hand. Pan of airplanes. T...

Nepal #2, 1952 Nepalis/Tibetans;Bowles party continues its overland trip to Katmandu. Camp. Someone hands a cigarette to a Nepali man cooking. Men tend to the horses. A man sits on the ground and adjusts h...

Nepal #3, 1952-1953 Black and white section at end of reel 3 is 1953, isolated Pokhara Valley, a wedding party;Color: Presentation to the king: Chet and some men come out of a building and wait for a car. A jeep full of Nepali solders. B&W: Chet walks down the hallway of the pala...

India, 19523-1957 1953: Delhi school Olympics (Sal) Chet with servants' children Party at our house for servants and their families Delhi public school - playing cricket, classr...;Delhi School Olympics: Groups of girls and boys in school uniform led by one person carrying a flag in each group marching on a track, with people in the stands watching. Chet...

1953 - Steb, Chet, Sally, Sam Trip to Java and Bali (rice/fish) Saigon (street/bicycles) Hong Kong (harbor) Taiwan;Chet in a large brimmed hat sitting in a small boat. Deck of a larger boat (schooner) Chet sitting on the deck. Dorothy in a large brimmed hat with sunglasses on sitting on th...

Steb and Chet trip to Africa, 1955 Victoria Falls Lake Victoria Tororo Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Lambarene Kenya - game reserve, village near Nyeri Ghana;Waterfall (Victoria Falls). Long horned steer on the road walking toward the car. Footage from the window of a small plane. An African village (most of the footage is dark): ...

1955? - India Republic Day Parade, New Delhi: Nehru, Indira Gandhi Military Floats from states: regional dancing, music, crafts, stories, resources;Children. Nehru talking to some men. Indira Gandhi talking to a different man. Three men in military uniform. Parade: a tank, military men on horses, camels, and marching. ...

Family 1953-1957 1953: Roque Island 195?: May 30th Baseball 1954: Essex - skating, Sam, Steb, Coolidges; Symes, Debbie 1956: North Haven- Coolidges, Panteleonies, Sally's frie...;A small sailboat. Sally and a friend on the deck of Tara. Sam in a sailor hat. A boat hauling a raft with horses. People on a pier. A baseball game in a field (played by ki...

Probably 1956 Many gatherings at Essex May 30th Steb after brain tumor op. Frannie's new house/old Lyme B and H and Holly and Ches and John, Linda, Nat and Tim Bennet Kids Buili...;A woman in a doorway claps her hands and walks out followed by several men carrying beer cans. Dorothy comes out towards the end followed by a man carrying a box full of cans a...

1957 - Steb and Chet trip: Pakistan to Germany Peshawar to Kabul Kabul: grain elevator, Russian housing project, Pouladas Tashkent, Samarkhand: school, Tanelaine's Tomb, marketp...;Mountains. People walking in front of a wall. Dark footage. Men walking down the road with camels and donkeys. Men building a bridge, laying down the bricks. Snow covered m...