The Barn Party--Joan Thurber Baldwin--home movies. Reel 9

Datecirca 1953

Can DescriptionsTitle from leader. Date from edge code. Note on reel: '90'. Woman typing, opening credits, barn party, drinking, smoking cigarettes, arm wrestling

Viewing NotesA woman typing and answering the telephone. She takes a bottle out of the cabinet and walks outside. Pages with different breeds of cows listed, tacked to a wall. Panning down to a piece of paper pinned to the wall: ‘ONE BARN PARTY’. A board with ‘Watch That Cigaret-’ written on it. Paper: ‘produced by Jay Baldwin’. A torn poster on the wall: ‘Dan Patch 1908 1:55’. Page: ‘directed by Jone Baldwin’. Barrels and farm equipment. Page: ‘The Cast’. A cat. A dachshund. Page: ‘Lou Shane, Allan Lad, Clancy O’Sheen, Clara Belle Jones, Marlin Brindo, Gerry Kooper, Jayne Rustle, George, Mary.’ A pickup truck pulls up and people climbed out of the truck bed. The group walks into the barn. A man puts on several hats. A different man sets up a record player. A man being pushed in a wheelbarrow. A man with a hat and pipe. People drinking. Two men arm wrestling. A man switches his beer glass with a woman's. Scenes of the party. Two men switch the glasses back, and chase the man away. The man stumbling around with a broken bottle. Men grab tools to fend him off. They fight and win. Eventually he stands back up and they give him back his hat. Everyone sits back down at the table. People start leaving, waving to the camera. A woman sleeps in the loft. Page: ‘The End’. A hand reaches out to turn out the light. [End of Reel]