[Archie Stewart--home movies] Reel 103

Date1949

Can DescriptionsNHF cataloguer's notes: Reel 103A: Archie Stewart can notes: 1949 Spring fishing trip. Screening notes: Logo, Amateur Cinema League, The World Wide Organization of Amateur Movie Makers. LS of men hoeing in clearing of woods, the garden at Maine camp. Two other men watch. MCU turning up and discarding roots. Planting seeds. Covering over with dirt. MS of shed piled high with split wood. Men loading canoe on lake shore. Trout caught by fishermen displayed on rocky shore. Man hauling canoes into water. VS of canoes moving across lake. Campfire at dusk. Man uses shovel to pour lake water into bucket to douse fire. VS of tamping down campfire. Men on shore wave to passing motorized canoe [nice shot, dusk]. Man using hat, blowing to get smoky fire going. CU on cooking vessel made of bark and twigs. Interior: Men in plaid shirts seated around dining table. VS of eating, talking, cleaning up, drying dishes by lamplight. VS of men relaxing, talking. VS of men using electric razor to shave, Grandfather Stewart [including fun shot from outside through cabin window]. More interior shots, men talking [too dark]. WS of campfire near cabin. Men seated on wheelbarrow watch another clean fish. VS of men sitting down to dinner table, being served by cook. Rob Golding, Grandfather Stewart. Reel 103B: [Archie Stewart can notes: 21 November 1949. Bits of sound assembled from scraps in desk. Florida, wrong color film. Bit from airship. Mary singing. Ann reading (inaudible). Rehearsal for operation.] Screening notes: Sound only, no picture. Music. Mans voice: Testing RCA camera #1306. Bouncy 1930s tune by small ensemble. Interior of dirigible cockpit, instrument panel [out of focus]. Ann looking out window. Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. blimp passing overhead. Young man lying on beach, Archie V/O: "May I present Walter Cook." Cook standing with ocean and bathers in BG. Hand gives shells to curly-haired Holmes boy. WS of people walking on beach. MS group of adults and children lounging on beach. Miami Beach, looking north from Cook's Casino. Mrs. Mary Stewart's voice, mourns leaving Florida on a beautiful day. Second take with Archie in frame. MS of daughter Ann. WS of [Holmes?]. Archie in armchair, MOS. From behind, Mary in gingham dress playing piano. MS of young girl [Ann] in armchair, reading, MOS. From behind, woman in black dress playing piano. Woman [Mrs Mary Stewart] sits by piano reading Life Magazine article about winter blizzards, frost. Mary sings South of the Border. WS, men in surgical gowns, practicing play. Sign on curtain: St. Jukes Horspital [sic]. Practicing skit, using props. Woman directs off screen. WS of Ralph Thompkins house draped with wisteria bushes.