[Karl Stefan--home movies] Reels 30 & 31

Date1955

Can DescriptionsAmateur footage of family and travel. Leader notes as follows: 30. Va. Beach, kids swimming 1955, Va. Beach, mom swimming. 31. Va. Beach '55. NHF Cataloguer's Notes: (03:48) Two little girls in bathing suits and caps play on an inflatable raft in the water. The waves crash over them. Little girls dressed in identical dresses stand next to lawn chair. Girls jump out from behind a tree with woman. Beach with people playing in the surf. Kids riding small inflatables. Women on sand playing with kids. Monument (?) on top of hill. A woman points to it. Norfolk Municipal Airport. Capital Airlines plane with people posing in front of it. Little girls dressed in frilly white dresses with hair accessories. They climb and jump off a stone wall. (06:50) People loading onto plane. Little girls playing in the waves with an inflatable raft, waves at camera. Little girls play with inflatable raft. Man pulls them around in the water. Woman in formal dark dress holds hands with two little girls in frilly outfits while walking on pier. Man in tuxedo sits on pier railing and poses with little girls. Girls scamper up the beach away from camera. White sand beach with mansions. Girls run back towards camera. Woman in formal dress stands outside beach house and tousles girls' hair. They all walk through flower garden. Man in tuxedo holds one girl up then the other to smell flowers on tree. CUs girls' faces and they pull flowering branches down to touch their heads. Woman in jeweled choker smelling flowers. (09:10) Girls at water's edge in summer clothes wading and running from waves. Girl climbing high sand dunes in bonnet. Boxer dog in water. Girls in red sneakers playing on beach. They sit on beach and remove their sneakers and socks. They hold hands and wade in the water.