[Meyer Davis--home movies] Reel 52

Date1939

Viewing NotesEddie Cantor appears with luggage and performs before camera. Rudy Vallee in sunglasses tips his cap to the camera beside Kezar Lake. Several people, including Meyer Davis, shoot bow and arrow. Playing tennis at a camp. View of the camp. A woman dusts off a man, and then a car. Man and woman playfully greet and fall down. Man clowns with clarinet. Playing by lake, picnic and dancing on beach. Intertitle: 'Farrington's Camp 39.' Shots of various people. A cabin. People eating watermelon. A group of people. A girl jumping rope. Intertitle: 'Picnic at Al Paul Lefton's 1938'. Color footage people playing baseball. Views of someone filming with Bell & Howell 16 mm. camera. People seated outdoors. Playing backgammon. Intertitle: 'THE BUTLER'S BALL 1939'. Intertitle: 'RKO PATHE NEWS 'JEEVES' BALL BUTLERS AND MAIDS DANCE FOR CHARITY Described by ANDRE BARUCH'. Black & white 'Jeeve's Ball' dancing. The orchestra. Pierre Monteux talks with young woman. Intertitle: 'LES BAUX 1937 The Farm'. People in the hills around Les Baux-de-Provance, France. Painting. Shots of various people. Intertitle: 'SAN FRANCISCO 1938'. A man and a woman. People on the city sidewalk. A San Francisco-Portland Greyhound bus. An outdoor concert. Shots of various people on the street. View of store fronts. Moving a piano. // NOTE: Rudy Vallee's camp is on the west side of Kezar Lake. - RN

Donor-supplied Notes// Meyer Davis Logbook: 'Rudy Vallee's camp, summer 1939. Ginny, Garry, M.D, Revues [?]. Farringtons 1939. Mr. and Mrs. Chapman. Bill Dasheff. Picnic, Liptons 1938. Butler's Ball 1939. Les Baux 1937, The Farm. San Francisco 1938.'