[Hinckley footage]

Date1940

Can DescriptionsReel notes: 'Film I. 1941. Color: Graduation, chapel. G.W. at Murrat tallets. calendula Sunday. Robinson Stockade. Campus buildings. Classroom interiors. Senior spring with H.G.W. Museum specimens. Garden of rocks. Bowdoin Circle. Bird station. Soldier's monument.' NHF viewing notes: Swans in lake, Hinckley talking, Hinckley picking flowers and talking. Lake scenes with foliage. CU's of houses (and shots of b&w photos of old houses), church, boys and girls going into church, unusual graduation ceremonies, exiting church, outdoor dusk ceremony with authoritative Hinckley speech making, fire-lighting ceremony. Hinckley and colleagues speaking together and speaking to graduating girls. Hinckley sitting alone. Pan of wooden fence with beaver cut-outs. Footage of buildings, inside library with girls, classroom scenes in lab doing experiments, graduation scenes with Hinckley. Hinckley talks to young man and woman, graduation ceremony with outdoor speeches, singing and curious water-drinking ceremony. Presentation of Indian style bead jewelry, miniature tree with fake birds, fossil CU's, butterfly collection, footage of old cabin (or mill). Different views of rocks and minerals, Abalone shell. Metal plaques on stone wall and on unusual outdoor structures, quote of famous outdoor-related Longfellow poem on one plaque, Hinckley looking at camera and at outdoor, ivy covered arch. Various views of arch.

Creator

• Carlton Brown

• Carlton Brown