[Gertrude Jane Hay Eustis--home movies] Reel 42

1375.0042
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1937
NHF cataloguer's notes, 7/96 (reel numbers assigned by donor or creator): Reel 42: (39:00) sprinkler on front lawn; girl and boy run through it, girl wearing bathing cap, boy standing over sprinkler; CU flowers (iris or daffodils?) boy and girl w/ father and another man w/ younger girl; smallest girl smells rose and then starts to eat it; she is held by man and they both wave to the camera; two adults put smaller girl on other girl's lap in a children's adirondack chair; woman holding girl in her arms; (41:00) girl walking down tree-lined street; two women w/ in front of house w/ girl; CU on certificate 'Primary Department' (? diploma); woman shows boy diploma; LS cottage covered w/ ivy; woman walking towards camera; one mast sailboat; (43:00) little girl on ramp; boy jumping off pier; boy diving; boy underwater holding on to rope; poor exposure of sailboat race; sailboat tacks closer to camera revealing four people inside; family sitting on sand beach; blue exposure of girl and man coming out of house and into convertible; boy and girl carry bench out of brick building w/ the direction of a woman; 10-15 kids run out on to lawn; recess activities include: paddle ball, boy and girl running together holding on to rope; woman playing paddle ball; dark-haired girl jumping rope; groups of kids running and jumping; girl bouncing ball; kids line up on sidewalk; gather and sit on lawn to drink milk from glass bottles; kids running out from behind bush; kids carry musical instruments out from school to chairs and music stands arranged on sidewalk; girl directing band; CU violin players; banjo and mandolin; (50:00) boys in front of garage w/ baseball hats, mitts and bat; boy stands ready to bat; strikes various poses w/ bat, sticks out tongue and makes faces; taller boy playing with paddle ball; two younger girls try to play; six children lined up in a row in front of garage door playing paddle ball all at once; MS white, clapboard house; girl walks toward camera; woman wearing a hat w/ a bow on it; (52:00) ramp from shore to pier w/ cars and trees in background; family on open launch; ramp and pier; women in bathing suits came down front steps of house w/ girl; men, women, children on beach; man smoking cigarette in bathing suit while lying on his back on sand; man, woman and girl in boat; great shot of women sitting in stern of boat w/ stern flag blowing in the wind behind them, wake is visible; one woman wears round, white sunglasses; two men moving barrel from truck to barn; two masted schooner; (54:00) POV of shore from moving boat; woman pulling canvas cover over boat at float; pan of harbor; Captain delivers suitcase to float; wood paneled station wagon; girl and woman walking up ramp from float, bow of boat in foreground, harbor ahead, pan of harbor; (56:00) pier w/ cars, boats in foreground.

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