[Archie Stewart--home movies] Reel 008

Date1927 – 1934

Viewing NotesArchie Stewart can notes: Hunting 1927, the big deer. 1927 train puppies, Middleton. 1934 father bird shoot. Maine. NHF cataloguer's notes, 1/96: Reel 8: Slate: Hunting trip to Maine, 1927 (the year we got all the big fellows). Viewing notes: (b&w). Moving shot from train through small town. Interior of passenger car, porter seated. Man props fishing rod against barn, carries pail, cat grooms itself. Howard Kendall carries burlap sack and rifle to 1920s automobile. Loading car. Brief shot of pile of ore. Moving shot on lake, passes two men in canoe. Various shots of bow, towing canoe, motor. Landing at shore, Hunters in canoe with dead deer. Group of men and women on shore with canoes and rowboats, deer carcasses, snowing, Maine guides, cart with deer, canoes. Very good views. Ducks feeding on muddy shore, from Archie's hand. Shot of Howard Kendall, left, Archie Stewart, right. Training puppies, Middletown [NY] 1927. Slate 'Vocational training at three months.' Viewing notes: (b&w). English setter and another young dog in brambles, field learning to point, sniff out birds. English Setter kennel. [Thomas Wesley Stewart, Archie's father] Father, bird shooting 1934. Viewing notes: Older men, rifles, cigars and dogs. Men dangle flapping birds from fingers after retrieving from dog.Teaching dog to retrieve bird, heel. Hunters seated on car running board eating from lunchboxes and thermos. Nice shots of dogs working with people. [Grandfather Warden, a hunting buddy of Grandfather Stewart, according to Mary Stewart Hafer.]