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...

(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...

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...