[Archie Stewart--home movies] Reel 001

Date1950s

Viewing NotesNHF cataloguer's notes, 3/96: Reel 1: screening notes: Features various views of golfing, both male and female players, caddies. Wide shots & closeups of players on course in mountain setting. [Color very faded, picture grainy, silent, date unknown, appears to be 1950's.] Includes slow motion shots of men teeing off. [Mary Stewart Hafer says Dr. Proper and Archie Stewart at the first hole, Powelton Club in Newburgh, NY] Other short sequences: countryside; details of black 1950s car; woman walks around front of car, opens door and enters driver's side. Croquet game between man and woman. TS on sign MacNaughton's Drive In (Manchester, VT) hanging from wrought iron arm. WS of garden, Adirondack chair beside pond. WS of woman in red dress walking from left to greet man entering from right, wearing white suit. Shake hands. Woman holds arms behind back as talks with man. Soft breeze moves tree boughs in background. Young man holds box camera, left hand shielding top viewfinder from sun as frames shot. Woman standing to pose for camera. Black car parked in driveway, large building with covered second floor porch behind. Men loading luggage into car. [Mary Stewart Hafer says the golfers are The Midnight Foursome, because they played golf together after work: Archie Stewart, Dr. Ted Proper, Dr. Joseph McGrath, a dentist, George Milner Northrop, a lawyer.]