Guests, friends, Wakefield, Harvard boat races, New York, 1937-1939--Samuel B. Horovitz--home movies. Reel 11

Date1937 – 1939

AbstractCompilation of home movie footage including many portraits of friends and colleagues, a Harvard regatta, and New York.

Can DescriptionsWritten on can: "33 Elm St. - Mrs. Cartel, old Harvard Boat house (w/Oscar and Mary), NY: Uncle Aaron's store, New Yorkers: all the lives and scenes."

Viewing NotesMain title: “Sam-O-Graphs” Intertitle: “Look who's here!” Older woman—Mrs. Cartel?—in close-up, shingled house, pan along convertible car, lawn, passing truck. Rural neighborhood. Cut to rails running along water, boats, “H” pennant on yacht. Another house with symmetrical wings. Elderly man posing with pince nez, hat and cane at Bacon Boathouse, Harvard. Young man posing behind framed photo of 1879 team. Photo shot again in young woman’s hands. Oscar and Mary? Dedication on boathouse reads "in memory of Elliot Cowdin Bacon of the class of 1910." Shots from rail conveyance riding along shore to observe rowing regatta, including shots of passengers in the car, other filmmakers among them. The car keeps pace with an 8-man scull and crowds are seen along the shore between the rail and the water. After the race finish, shots of women on the train car, one chewing gum and smiling. Cut to New York: On the street, a couple are seen wrestling playfully for a taxi. A man reading a newspaper gets a shoeshine while leaning against the side of a building. Quick shot of shiny shoes. The marquee for the Globe Theatre shows "Trapped by Television" [Columbia Pictures, 1936]. City views, including signs for Riviera Follies, William Powell in “Mrs. Bradford.” Pan of sign for Aaron I. Binsky Inc. Clothes Builders. (Note on can identifies “Uncle Aaron’s store.”) Two men approach the camera. Views of shop window displays and signage. Rockefeller Center, signs for 5th Ave. and W. 50 St. Street and sidewalk views, passersby, in quick camera motion. Double-decker bus, sign for Ozzie Nelson and his Orchestra. Shots tilting down from hotel window, Hotel Piccadilly seen opposite. Paramount Hotel sign at night. Daytime double-decker bus approaches, then Empire State Building view. Indoors, painting. Outdoors, group dancing and playing on gravel-topped city roof. Street views from roof, looking up the block towards the park, up at taller buildings, down towards pedestrians and cars below. Hayden Planetarium, pan of sign on building, swishes back and forth. Children in a park garden, street sign for Central Park W. at W 77 St. Park views, The American Museum of Natural History, bicycle ice cream vendor. Sign for W. 76 St. at Columbus Ave., elevated train along Columbus. Shops along Columbus Ave., Aylsmere sign. Contrasty close-up of young woman, group on rooftop. Intertitle: “Is the next face among those present?” Catalog of portraits, older woman, young man. Intertitle: “Prepare for the worst” Older man in extreme close-up. People wrestle on rooftop. On street, children wave. Two girls hug each other. With boy, run toward camera. Jump up and down. Cut to interior train car, scenes from window of Boston, including State House building. Interior shots of men in a courtroom, possibly a classroom. Many close-up portraits, including women in offices. Scenes of surrounding area. Dark sequence. Beacon Hill Eagle Monument outside of the Massachusetts State House. Police officer. End title: “The End”

Creator

• Samuel B. Horovitz

• Samuel B. Horovitz