Friends, 1937--Samuel B. Horovitz--home movies. Reels 9

Date1937

Donor-supplied Notes"3(6) Friends. Bass Point House. August 1937. Germans - Woods Hole. Cohens on Sara. Esther - Daisy, Lodge, Bert's family. Nancy - NY [New York] Plane."

AbstractReel 9 Title: “Sam-O-Grams” Reel is all black and white. Couple; man with arm around woman. Young man with two gold front teeth embraces young woman. Headshots. Bass Point House Charles River with bridge. Man in sailor hat, container of fish. Gas Sunoco sign at night. Children. Boy on sidewalk. Woman with globe, turns globe, pan up and down her leg. She spins globe, looks at camera. Men’s heads. View of water and road from car parked by side of road. Pan across windshield and out of window. Pan of clouds and passing vehicles. Metropolitan Waterworks Spot Pond sign. (Spot Pond is north of Boston.) Haying by waterfront dock. Two men on dock. Dock moves. More portraits including pan down a woman in a white outfit (sailor pants). People on small boat with flounder on hook. Portraits. A social gathering with women in floral dresses and one in polka dots with light jacket. Woman with short curly hair and glasses. Elderly couple crosses street. Pilgrim Ale and Socony and Rent a Truck and Squire’s Arlington Hams Bacon Sausage neon signs, well shot. Fitzgerald’s Echo Cigar. Waldorf A Clean Place to Eat. Tedd’s Kimball’s DeLuxe Ice Cream. Couple at a party. He has a film can. She has a camera case. Steamship at sea. Sailor. Large fish maybe cod? POV from boat. Three people walking outdoors. Small blonde girl and boy in swimsuit address camera. Seems to be at seaside house, large lawn. More portraits at same location. Breezy day. Family group with laundry line in back. Woman lifts girl. Pan of large house and cars on road. Could be a hotel. Girl on swing. Man with hammer uses it to nail something. Small child on ground with hammer. Driving past seaside houses, shot from back seat. Older woman with globe, round glasses. Man with editing setup. Woman removes glasses. Two women seated, one with cigarette. Two men behind mock fighting. Man with projector and sound setup. Exterior of a building. Young woman looks at camera. More of same building Two men crank some kind of large apparatus. Cars wait for drawbridge. Woman smiles, carries case and two books. Hat at an angle. Takes off hat. Man speaking at some occasion, briefly. Audience applauding. Very dark. Man in boater hat. Men emerge from office building, man takes off boater. Is he a candidate? He has sweat on upper lip. Massachusetts State Federation of Labor 52nd annual convention, Lowell, MA American Airlines people emerge. Young man with still camera in dark. He takes picture. Group on boat. Man swimming. Group in swimsuits. It is very sunny. From the caboose of a train. On a train, woman crocheting. Views of houses from train. Boy’s head. More neon signs: Camels. Woman’s head in New York City. Camels sign in daytime. The Kick Back at the Ritz Theatre. (Played June 22-July 1936) Woman on rooftop in Manhattan. Skyline, rather soft (then changes stop). Edison Hotel sign. Other people on rooftop. Dog, at dog’s eye view level. Wrigley’s Spearmint sign, well shot. at night. Other signs including Sunkist, Phil Spitalny and All Girl Band. Kool Cigarettes. Schenley. Chin’s Lunch 40c. Automat, Strand, Canadian Club, (Times Square chaos.) Hotel Edison. The End.