[Henry Sturgis Dennison--home movies] Reel 45

Date1938

Can DescriptionsLabel: 'Family - Dogs, Horses, Color 1938.' // Color is faded.

Viewing NotesDVD slate: Reel 45. Family, Dogs, horses, 1938. Color: small girl in dress outside. Airedale dogs. Maple branch, ECU out of focus. View of house through branches. Flowering shrubs. Small oak, flowers, indistinct plants. Fern in foreground with brick house. Hand holding plant materials over bluestone paving. Mother and small child, soft color. Girl with push mower, mother and child. She helps child walk (she is wearing spectator pumps, brown and white). Fire in fireplace with silhouette of andiron. Two women with baby birds. One feeds birds something white. Mare and colt. Hard shadows in shot followed by underexposed shots. Woman in blue/green dress pursues colt with hand outstretched; sequence is still murky. Children on flagstone patio. Toddler on horseback. Mother walks horse. NOTE: The film is spliced in backwards as it's unlikely that mother is backing the horse up several times. Sunset. Horses, blurry. At rail fence with dog, horses. Children on horseback led by mother. Man with Airedales, dogs eating from bowls. Man with girl in lake. Girl has on bathing cap. Trying to put face in water, learning to swim. Mother and daughter walking away from camera in swimsuits. Walking back to camera. Underexposed woman and small child on horse.

Creator

• Henry Sturgis Dennison

• Henry Sturgis Dennison