109 work results

26) 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...
26) 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...
27) 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...
12) 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...
30) 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...
19) 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 –...
13) 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.
9) 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...
35) 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...
11) 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...
1) 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...
13) 0660.0003 [Nice, North Africa] Reel 1
Title, 'Nice from the sea.' Water, hillside. Title, 'Nice, Promenade des Anglais.' People at tables. Title, 'Herald of the Carnival, Nice.' More such titles. Stable shots, no CU...;Title card with the still image of a man and woman standing near trees: 'Nice from the sea'. Panning shot of Nice shoreline, seen from the water. Shot of the beach. The Jetée-Pr...
15) 0660.0004 Nice, Algiers, Paris. Reel 2.
Title, 'Florence--Eastertime Procession of the Holy Light.' Parade. 'Easter Monday Procession Signa (near Florence).' // Date from edge code. // Men with banners. 'Paris in the ...;A woman feeding a monkey (rhesus macaque?) sitting on a metal roof. Shot of the monkey in a tree. Title, with a still image of a man and woman standing near trees: 'Florence -- ...
17) 0660.0006 Guatemala, 1932
Title, 'Costa Rica, Billy the Ant Eater.' Woman's legs and small animal on ground. Title, 'Nicaragua, Where More U.S. Marines were ruined by Boredom like this than were killed b...;Title card: [Costa Rica. Billy the Ant-Eater.] An anteater on a leash, being played with by two women of whom only their feet are shown. Intertitle: 'Nicaragua. Where more U.S. ...
16) 0660.0007 Guatemala, Mexico 1932-1933
Street scenes including vendors, people smiling and waving at camera, bull fight.;A line of men in various uniforms walking down the street. One man breaks off from the group to pose for the camera and is joined by a man with a guitar. A crowd gathers to pose...
20) 0660.0009 Palestine
Title, 'Life in a tent. Swaddling baby. Making coffee. Spinning. Making bread.' Silhouettes. Exterior. 'Village scenes. Lilies of the Field? Shepherd boys. Views of people outsi...;Title card: 'LIFE IN A TENT – Swaddling Baby Making Coffee Spinning Making Bread.' A family gathered under a tent. A woman swaddles a baby and rocks the baby in a hammock. A man...
28) 95-40.0014-.0015 Saint Ignace Island on Lake Superior, 1940--Dassler family--home movies. Reels 14-15
Black-and-white and color home movies shot and compiled by J.C. Dassler of the Dassler family's 1940 vacation on Lake Superior.;NHF cataloger's notes, 2/96 for Reels 14 and 15: Crowd of about 50 people stand at dock awaiting arrival of mail boat; mail boat steaming into port; crew unloads small cargo; ma...;Title card: "SAINT IGNACE ISLAND in LAKE SUPERIOR *** J.C. Dassler 1940" Intertitle: “We spent a few days in Tobins Harbor, Isle Royale.” Intertitle: “Here - Early Sunday morn...
18) 95-40.0016 The yellow peril goes west, 1940--Dassler family--home movies. Reel 16
Compiled black-and-white and color film of Dassler family road trip across South Dakota, Wyoming, and Colorado in 1940, featuring many hand-drawn, illustrated intertitles.;'The Yellow Peril Goes West (Yellowstone).' // NHF cataloger's notes, 2/96 for Reel 16. Note: intertitling is of commercial quality throughout reel. Four young men load 1930...;Main titles: “The Yellow Peril Goes West 1940/Photography by Dale Dassler” Intertitle: “Loading the car” Intertitle: “Lunch on the desert near Chamberlain S.D.” Intertitle: “...
14) 1577.0001 Oregon Historical Society/Gene Stoeller Collection
Some vertical scratches throughout. Intertitle: "On the tip of Cape Cod lies historic Provincetown. A landing place of our pilgrim fore-fathers." Aerial shot looking down on ...
10) 1638.0022 England--Robert N. Lupfer--home movies. Reel 22
This reel contains amateur footage and two purchased reels. 1. Amateur footage England: Harrow on the Hill train station. Street, women walk, toddler in stroller. Town vie...
8) 2004-10.0001 Africa Trip #1, circa 1959--Lillian Edwards--home movies. Reel 1
Africa #1 ;Shot of the sunset. People swimming at the beach. Shot of people on a different beach. A man wearing a robe walking down the steps. A group of people walking down steps. Shot of...
4) 2004-10.0002 Africa Trip #2, circa 1959--Lillian Edwards--home movies. Reel 2
Africa #2;Various shots of parrots in trees. Shot of a palm tree-lined beach. People in a boat paddling away from the beach. A crowd of people throw buckets of water on a burning thatch s...
6) 2004-10.0003 Africa Trip #3, circa 1959--Lillian Edward--home movies. Reel 3
Africa Trip #3;Children playing in the surf. Shot of ships in the distance and small boats in the foreground, with a seawall in the middle distance. A single rowboat on the water. Close up of ...
5) 2004-10.0004 Africa Trip #4, circa 1959--Lillian Edwards--home movies. Reel 4
Africa #4;Various shots of people on a market street, seen from above. People pushing a cart full of bundles of rush mats. People walking past a Shell gas station. Various shots of people...
4) 2004-10.0005 Africa Trip #5, circa 1959--Lillian Edwards--home movies. Reel 5
Africa #5;Shots of towns and landscape, seen from the air. Panning shot of a dry landscape, at ground level. A parked airplane: ‘Air France’, tail number F-BBDD. A group of men standing a...
27) 2004-10.0006 Africa Trip #6, circa 1959--Lillian Edwards--home movies. Reel 6
Last Part Africa Trip #6;A herd of goats. A man in uniform chasing the herd of goats. People washing clothes on the shore. Shot of a town from the air. A herd of cows. People on horseback seen in the di...
21) 2123.0004 New York World's Fair, 1939--George E. Haskins--home movies. Reel 4
Color home movie footage of a family visit to the 1939 New York World's Fair, edited together with black-and-white scenes from a souvenir print.;The black-and-white footage at the head of the reel, including scenes of the fair on opening day, is excerpted from the Official Home Movies of the New York World's Fair, a comm...
23) 2176.0001 England, 1929--Arthur Pentecost--home movies. Reel 1
1929 home movie featuring scenes of London and an ocean voyage.;This reel includes footage of a trip to England and ocean journey back to the United States. Men on a sports playing field. Scenes of gardens and landscaped grounds along a ri...
20) 2176.0004 1930 trip--Arthur Pentecost--home movies. Reel 4
Ship leaving harbor (shot from the ship). Shots of other boats in harbor, New York skyline, and Statue of Liberty. Scenes on board the ship. Crew tending to ship and passenge...
28) 2176.0005 1930 trip--Arthur Pentecost--home movies. Reel 5
Notes in can: '1930-London-Laundry at Liverpool, Car Being ..., Wilford Grange, Surrey's Russell at home.' Footage of ocean liner. Passengers disembarking and crew lowering an...
16) 2176.0008 England--Arthur Pentecost--home movies. Reel 8
Exterior of a factory. London street scenes, and St. Paul's Cathedral. Family and pets outside of a house. Pullman train at a station platform. Dark footage of the interior ...
32) 2176.0009 1930--Arthur Pentecost--home movies. Reel 9
People walking down a street in an English town. Family picnicking. Scenes of a town in the countryside. Beekeeping scene. Family visiting the grounds of large house. Famil...
14) 2176.0010 Europe 1931--Arthur Pentecost--home movies. Reel 10
Shots of trains passing in the distance. A train at a station platform. Scenes of a seaside town and beach. Short shot of St. Paul's Cathedral and a London street scene. Peo...
35) 2176.0011 Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Venice--Arthur Pentecost--home movies. Reel 11
Street scenes and shots of the main landmarks of Prague, Vienna, Budapest, and Venice.
36) 2176.0012 Europe--Arthur Pentecost--home movies. Reel 12
Notes in can: '1931, Italy - Milan, Venice, Turin; France - Paris; Belgium - Brussels; England - Dover - Cliffs; Holland - Amsterdam.' Scenes of Milan, including Duomo and stre...
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