Camp Kawanhee--Robert N. Lupfer--home movies. Reel 12

Date1937 – 1938

AbstractCompiled color home movies of 1937 and 1938 summer activities at Camp Kawanhee boys' camp at Weld, Maine.

Viewing NotesBlack spaniel dog and box turtle on the lawn. Rocky shore. Same spot seen in Reel 6. Camp Kawanhee for Boys Boys play baseball at summer camp. Lake with boys (faded color film). Views of New England landscape on a hike. Small beach at lake, cabin with porch. Boys canoeing toward shore. Boys about 11 years old. Marching band at camp. Shorefront, boats pulled up on lake. Two boys in swimming trunks approach shore. (Men and boys no longer wear full-body swimsuits as they did in earlier reels.) Boys emerge from camp recreation hall. Rowing race. Jousting in canoes. Water skiing. Costumed paddlers with laundry hung up in rigging. Baseball game with young men in silly costumes. "Camp Kawanhee for Boys" sign. Pan of birch trees and foliage. Young women in a riding ring cantering. Observers on a sunny day. Faded color. Diving off a rock in a quarry or natural stone pool and swimming. [Could be Smalls Falls, Maine, on the Sandy River, 22 miles from Camp Kawanhee.] One young man’s swim trunks are torn in the rear. Lake and waterfront activities.