[Archie Stewart--home movies] Reel 095

Date1948 – 1950

Can DescriptionsNHF cataloguer's notes: Reel 95: Archie Stewart can notes: Take Ann to college, 1948-1949. [University of Michigan] Sunday supper Proper's Summer 1949. Roses. Experiments with new lights, Stewart blankets, books. 11 April 1950, temp. My birthday. Rob in kitchen, First of 50th anniversary. AH's new coat. Wee Tammy dressed for Brown's wedding. Screening notes: WS people picnicking beside automobile. POV inside car driving across bridge, approaching city skyline beside river [Detroit]. Pan down heavy column of smoke coming off river bank. Fireboat pumps water onto fire. WS of skyscrapers. MS of people watching fire. Pilothouse of boat, name Western States? TS on black smoke from smokestack. Bridge across river. Tugboat. VS people talking around picnic table. Barbeque. Dr. Proper, Fran, McGraths. VS of flowering rose bushes. [Killarney Rose at 350 Grand] VS of interior details: lampshade with painted flowers; clock with painted pastoral scene on face [Nana's clock]; books spines on shelves [Archie's books]; framed photograph of Ann; aquarium with fish [dark]. Toddler walking around living room; Tommy Hafer. Child's diaper being changed in armchair. Birthday party: people seated around table. Lit cake placed in front of Mary. Spoon feeding child in highchair. VS of people eating in dining room at 388 Grand. VS of flower arrangements, ornate cake, table settings. VS of people eating; grandmother cutting cake; men in tuxedos. Mother seated on porch steps reading newspaper. Young woman in sheared raccoon coat standing in front of house. Tom Hafer in red snowsuit, walking, seated in woman's lap Ann in evening gown poses on porch. Mother and father [Archie and Mary Stewart] in evening dress on lawn. VS of tree blossoms, apple tree at 350 Grand Street. Bird's nest: mother robin feeding chicks.