Skating, Pageants, Football--Robert N. Lupfer--home movies. Reel 14

Date1935 – 1938

Viewing NotesSkating on a pond, faded color. Early spring, young man in suit with a camera, boy with dog. Boy bicycles by house. Baseball in yard. Garage visible in background. Man on sidewalk with tall grass. Girls act out a fairytale in the yard. They are in costume. Boy in knee breeches comes to read a proclamation. Smaller girls in tutus come in. “King and Queen” enter, courtiers in couples. Quite elaborate costumes. Children in animal suits. Graduation inside, young men in mortarboards. Could be Ed Lupfer’s high school graduation from Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH. Brick campus high view. Young women in summer dresses walk by camera. More pageant, dancing and acrobatics in garden with parental hats in the foreground. Children after the pageant pose for camera. At the pool, boy in hat jumps off diving board. Costumed girl wearing hat with ostrich feather on front steps, boy with ostrich feather hat makes a bow and doffs his hat. Boy in swimsuit in the yard. Ohio 1937 license plate. Girl with baskets by car, boy laughs. At camp, baseball in costume. Campers in a line, wearing dress clothes. Mother and son emerge from clapboard house. Boys in leather football helmets on the front lawn. Throwing football. Leaf pile burns nearby. Quite fine: shaky camerawork but evocative. Slow motion boy with football being tackled. Falling on lawn. Snow on trees Sack race down hill and around corner. Girls running Scrum of children. Easter? Boys put four-oar shell in water, probably Exeter, NH. Boy’s arm with snake. Rowing practice. Baseball. Children outdoors in neighborhood playing football. Difficult exposure, they are in shade and houses behind in sun.

AbstractCompiled black-and-white and color home movies of varied subjects including children in costume, a high school graduation ceremony, and boys' football.