[Archie Stewart--home movies] Reel 129

Date1957 – 1959

Can DescriptionsReel 129: Donor's can notes: 'Continuation of 1957-1958 winter trip. Starts 21 January 1958. MLWB's birthday. Willard's 9 February. Long's Apartments 27 February. 25th anniversary. Uncle Jammie's visit. Rockets. Abby. MSWB at 388 [Broadway]. Camp May 1958. Reggie's visit.' NHF Cataloguer's notes for Reel 129: Mary Lou Sauls in front of television set, watching Romper Room. CUs Miss Nancy showing puppets made from cupcake papers and pipe cleaners. Child mimicking exercises done by group of children on TV. [Good sequence.] Mary Lou seated on Archie Stewart's lap before typewriter. Child tries hitting keys. CU hand pointing to wall calendar: January 21, 1958, Mary Lou's birthday. Ann lighting candles on cake, CU cake, Happy Birthday, two candles. Child seated on floor with toys. Child being fed in high chair. Child seated on lap of mother, grandfather, cutting cake. Woman and child pick flowers to make bouquet. WS Ann walking down sidewalk with Mrs. Mary Stewart and baby carriage. Child shows flowers to baby. Man, two boys and woman pose with Mrs. Mary Stewart at dining table, B&W. Col. Willard and Martha Beauchamp. Woman holds puppy. WS military parade. Air Force Band. WS [Rio Grande?] river taken from bridge. Sign: Boundary of United States, Treaty of 1848. Second sign in Spanish: Limite de la Republica Mexicana. WS Chiplet Motel sign. Car with tail fins. Shots of Archie and Mary Stewart. Picnic beside highway. Rob Golding man using wash board and tin tub to wash clothes. WS white building, The Long's. Two shots of people walking down steps, Mrs Mary Stewart and Rob Golding. Rob seated with Tom and John in pajamas seated in his lap. Older man sprinkling [grass?] seed on front yard of small house, our quarters on Riverside Drive, Patrick Air Force Base. Mary carries baby from car into house, Abby Hafer coming home from hospital. Group of people walking beach. In BG, superstructure of Cape Canaveral. Rocket launch, ELS of rocket in sky. Stewart family wading in surf. Mary with newborn baby, Abby Hafer. People holding baby: grandfather [Archie], great grandmother. Car picnic in woods. Rob and Mary Lou dancing in living room. Family dinner. At camp, men clearing land, tilling field using plow towed by car. GG, older woman displays fishing catch. Man in canoe washing boat at dock. Loading gear into boat, launching and motoring away. Reg Sauls shaving with electric razor, shot through cabin window. WS man standing on shore of lake. WS and moving shot of seawall, rocks piled along shore. Men cooking in forest using oil drum campfire. Launching canoe. Two men fishing. Interior: WS [out of focus] man beside wall calendar, CU May 1959. GG, older woman holding large fish. Exterior: WS of woman holding fish. Men and GG playing cards around table inside cabin, Reg Sauls.