Washington, D.C., Spring 1939--Samuel B. Horovitz--home movies. Reel 20
1318.0020
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1939
Credit:
Credit: Samuel Horovitz Collection, Northeast Historic Film.
Compiled color home movies of friends and colleagues in Washington, D.C., including scenes at the law office of Houston & Houston and at the Howard University campus.
FRIENDS
1939
NATURAL COLOR
PHOTOGRAPHY by SBH
COLORED GROUP--FATHER HOUSTON
--his office probably-SBH
Reddish-Q simple original light
MAX RABB, EUNA,
CHARLIE, ZIMMER?
whole WASH DC group
([from?] my office [summer prep?])
sign SUPREME ORDER OF HELPERS
HOUSTON & HOUSTON LAWYERS
FLYING American
(JUDGE) SPIEGEL (Jack)
REPUBLICANS? in TUXEDOS
J. PINANSKI, GEORGE RABB
Lou Gordon (H. 1920)
invitation APR 11 1939. COPLEY PLAZA
[?] fall scenery
City Line - MANCHESTER - BEVERLY
SARA II on wharf
Max & wife RABB
75 ft. dark poor pictures
Dirigible, Wash DC
sign LINGOLN MEMORIAL etc
2 youngsters ?Paul + David?
SBH
ZOO
(JUDGE) HASTIE, & wife?
HOWARD LAW SCHOOL
JUDGE HASTIE
THE END (bluish)
Title: “Natural Color Photography by Samuel B. Horovitz”
Young woman eats ice cream with small spoon. Man to camera. African American group meeting in the law offices of Houston & Houston, the Washington, D.C., practice of William L. and Charles H. Houston. William LePre Houston appears first in a framed photograph held by the young woman, then directly. Chiaroscuro portraits of family members and friends by window.
Windows from outside, Supreme Order of Helpers, Houston & Houston. Woman in cap with bakelite necklace, seems fashion-forward. On city street.
View from airplane, mostly wing. Color fading in this sequence. View of pilot, very brief.
Plane lands in Boston. Woman on city street. American Airlines plane. Pilot. Woman in jaunty cap (military?) View from plane.
Man in office (he has moustache). Bald man.
View of passing trolley through window, three arched building.
“Jacksonville” on building with pillars.
ECU small child.
Adults at formal party. Invitation:
“Testimonial Banquet
to
Honorable Joseph R. Cotton
By his Friends
April 11th, 1939
Copley Plaza”
Rural road, fall colors. Man in cart with two horses on road.
Rocky shore. City Line, Manchester/Beverly (MA) road signs.
Sky and tress.
Boat on ways. Sara II, a rather bigger boat. [This boat was built by Owens Yacht Company, Baltimore. Good views of boatyard elsewhere in Horovitz Collection.]
Young couple talking to Horovitz.
Dark footage. Men with boutonnieres, wedding? Footage no good, very dark.
Child in garden, still too dark. Woman. House exterior and garden.
Storm. Blimp.
Lincoln Memorial, Washington Monument, small plane.
Women in Washington, D.C.
Traffic by reflecting pool. Sign, Lincoln Memorial visiting hours. Lincoln.
Guard at Lincoln Memorial. Family members visit.
Zebra in zoo. Wild ass or onager, sign. Mongolian wild horse, sign. Squirrels in tree.
Dean William H. Hastie and others at Howard University School of Law. African American men and women with brick wall behind. .
Howard University campus, Washington, D.C. Douglass Hall, McMillan Reservoir.
On can: "Wash D.C. Howard Law 1939 group, Euna, Charlie K?, J. Spiegel, group Manchester/1939 spring"
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