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1) 0010.0001 Winter and Auto Trip Around Gaspé Peninsula--Walter V. Mitton--home movies. Reel 10
Viewing notes from VHS, February 2012. No slate at head of access copy. Views from train of river in winter, people standing by ice dam. At Greenville, Maine, train station...
1) 0134.0001 Harvest Bumper Crop Ice
On the Kenduskeag River, marking ice into cakes, handsaws at work, piking thru channel in river, putting ice into converyor, ls cu same, showing thickness of ice, reverse shot i...
4) 0145.0001 [Robert M. Hume, Sr.--home movies]. Reel 1: Cutting Pulpwood
Can note: 'Cutting Pulpwood 1933. Woodsaw. Bermuda 1932. All Film Black & White.' NHF cataloguer's notes: Man with ax cuts down tree, man with frame saw; man uses ax to limb woo...
1) 0154.0001 St. Croix Bridge, Vanceboro
Single newsreel story about German saboteur's attempt to destroy international railroad bridge at Vanceboro, Maine. Pan and CU of men walking across bridge with peaveys. Site wh...
12) 0155.0001 [Herbert Kenney--home movies]
Collection formerly called 'Seavey Collection' A walk through Author's Ridge in Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass., with a young woman, Constance Seavey (about 15 years old),...
1) 0158.0001 The Ladies Travel South, 1928--Edward Farrington Abbott--home movies. Reel 1
'Cushman southern No. 1' ;First of four reels on a trip to the South. NHF cataloguer's notes, 1/96: (10 min.) 'The Ladies Travel South, a four reel picture of scenes from Pinehurst, N.C. to the Mississip...
7) 0158.0002 The Ladies Travel South, 1928--Edward Farrington Abbott--home movies. Reel 2
Travel scenes from Florida towns. NHF cataloguer's notes, 1/96: (12 min.) Alligator and ostrich farm. Alligators sliding down slides, creeping through shadows. Ostriches running...
8) 0158.0003 The Ladies Travel South, 1928--Edward Farrington Abbott--home movies. Reel 3
Amateur: Travel scenes in Florida resort towns. NHF cataloguer's notes, 1/96: (11 min.; film has red tint) Shipwreck. Women pretend to scream. Hurricane aftermath: trees blown d...
4) 0158.0004 The Ladies Travel South, 1928--Edward Farrington Abbott--home movies. Reel 4
'No. 4. Tallahassee, New Orleans, Miss. Riverboat to NY.';NHF cataloguer's notes, 1/96: (7 min.) Tallahassee to Mississippi Delta. 'Tobacco planters.' Group in the distance. Pigs running along road. Herd of cattle. Men changing tire. N...
18) 0158.0005 State of Maine Dedicates Carlton Bridge, 1928--Edward Farrington Abbott--home movies. Reel 5
Amateur. First 17 ft. perf. damage and brittle. 1928 footage, with Title 'Opening the Bake,' man selects corn and clams from large pit clambake. About 12 people look at men arou...
7) 0158.0007 Maine family activities--Edward Farrington Abbott--home movies. Reel 7
Amateur footage. NHF cataloguer's notes, 1/96: (20 min.) Augusta, Me. State House. Lisbon Street, Lewiston. Mill. River. Pan to bridge. Waterfall, dam. 'Bowdoin Pines.' Pan of t...
12) 0162.0001 [Herbert Kenney--home movies]
Young, then elderly woman try to saw on tree as young man helps. Family picnic and roughhousing. Young girl running through woods. Children in bathing suits. Couple hugging. Coa...
1) 0227.0006 River Run
Forest management, the Machias River watershed and the log drive. // Logs travel down Machias River to Whitneyville where a large saw-mill owned by Lester Crane was operating.
11) 0252.0067 [Howard Kane--home movies] Reel 67
NHF notes as follows. Can/reel/box annotations appear in quotes. Reel 67: (100 ft.) 'Niagara and birds 1936.' Niagara Falls. Birds.
14) 0252.0068 [Howard Kane--home movies] Reel 68
NHF notes as follows. Can/reel/box annotations appear in quotes. Reel 68: (100 ft.) 'June 1936.' Moosehead Lake area [and Quebec]. Waterfall.
34) 0252.0094 [Howard Kane--home movies] Reel 94
NHF notes as follows. Can/reel/box annotations appear in quotes. Reel 94: (400 ft., dc 1939) 'Hanson #1.' 'Blge. Ambois, Chartres, Orange, LeMans, Taormina, Cargenta, Seqesta, N...
17) 0252.0095 [Howard Kane--home movies] Reel 95
NHF notes as follows. Can/reel/box annotations appear in quotes. Reel 95: (400 ft., dc 1939) 'Hanson #2.' 'Washington, Bd-Bd, Salzburg, Garferri, Jarlsburg, [?]igham, Nuremburg,...;Color. On board ship, looking over bow. Stormy sky. Sailing vessel stern. Four master, fully rigged. Planes in sky. Two young men (no shirts) in dinghy behind boat. Scratche...
22) 0284.0001 [Meyer Davis--home movies] Reel 1
Croquet match with children, women in fancy dress, views of front of large house and surrounding yard, overview of croquet match, CUs of children, more views of house and cars, ...
8) 0284.0002 [Meyer Davis--home movies] Reel 2
Views of mansion and surrounding fountains, hedges, arches, children posing for camera, workmen unloading supplies, children on boat, view inside boat, approaching a harbor (Bar...
9) 0284.0003 [Meyer Davis--home movies] Reel 3
Good views of huge crowds lining the streets as various official-looking cars pass. Parade begins, a band passes, women with parasols, another band, a large float and 'Queen' at...
4) 0284.0004 [Meyer Davis--home movies] Reel 4
View from inside house, elderly woman on porch. Same woman (Mrs. Davis?) and elderly man approach camera. CU of same woman. Long pan of Bar Harbor area. Pan of house and yard, p...
10) 0284.0005 [Meyer Davis--home movies] Reel 5
Children rolling on beach, CU's of children swinging on tires, pan of house and yard, children racing toward camera, playing on lawn. Two women walk toward camera, dance on lawn...
23) 0284.0006 [Meyer Davis--home movies] Reel 6
Children dancing and acting for camera, interesting views of Willow Grove Park amusement park. Girl and boy smiling and quickly kissing for camera then cartwheeling and dancing ...
17) 0284.0007 [Meyer Davis--home movies] Reel 7
Birthday party July 28, 1927 Gary poses for camera as do his young guests in a group shot then in CU's, playing a game called Going to Jerusalem (musical chairs), a watermelon e...;Meyer Davis rented a house in Jamestown, RI, at 22 Old Walcott Avenue for several years. The house was called "Fairacre."
29) 0284.0008 [Meyer Davis--home movies] Reel 8
Children on porch, croquet, playing with dog inside house, adults playing cards on porch, children acting for camera, playing in yard, croquet, playing pool, child playing by se...
14) 0284.0008A [Meyer Davis--home movies] Reel 8A
Children act for cameras (dying, etc.), play on beach (with brief shots of adults), a couple kissing, pans of a mountainous region, CU's of adults and children. Birthday party f...
16) 0284.0009A [Meyer Davis--home movies] Reel 9A
Children at the Jamestown house, wrestling, rolling, swinging bats, throwing balls. Family shots with mother. Running toward camera, adults on lawn chairs. // Meyer Davis Logboo...
17) 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...
12) 0284.0022A [Meyer Davis--home movies] Reel 22A
Views of Netherlands taken from a ship or boat: windmills, houses, trains. Hilda with Dutch people. Exposure problems. Amsterdam street scenes. Quick shot of Pierre Monteux, dan...
18) 0284.0023 [Meyer Davis--home movies] Reel 23
Long pan of mountain range and lake (Bubble Pond, Mt. Desert Island). Boy surveys the scenery. Hilda and Meyer golfing, Hilda dances. Golf shots. Pan of mountain range and car. ...
27) 0284.0024 No Indian to Guide Them, or What Is It a Kemp?
Home drama with titles. Begins with a CU intro of fourteen Davises in a small boat. One of the girls falls overboard and is saved. A woman drops her jewels overboard. Family dis...
32) 0284.0026 [Meyer Davis--home movies] Reel 26
Boating and swimming at Lake Placid, children playing with a puppy. Lake, scenes from the boat of boathouses and speedboats, picnic, diving and swimming. Rolls Royce. // Meyer D...
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...
20) 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 ...
32) 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...
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