[Chute Homestead—home movies] Reel 11

Date1939

AbstractCompiled home movie reel including 1939 color scenes of the New York World's Fair.

Viewing NotesA few shots of people around a Lockheed Electra plane with “La Touraine Coffee Co.” on the side of it. Footage shot from within the airplane, probably New York City. A few shots of people getting out of the plane. Color footage of the 1939 World’s Fair in New York, including shots of buildings, exhibitions and pavilions, such as the Maine pavilion, a band and an exhibition by a female marching color guard. From moving vehicle, views of Perisphere and Trylon. Court of States. Maine pavilion exterior with people entering. Seated band playing and women in costume walking by. Man in wheeled chair with driver behind. Fountain with Trylon and Perisphere behind. Women marching in formation, man with camera in foreground. Camera follows women. Footage of people surveying the damage to the forest and nearby homes caused by New England hurricane of 1938. Child climbs over fallen trees. Man with axe. Very fast pan by house with trees fallen around it and lake behind. People stand next to wreckage. Boat on the water. Pan of water, tree on point. A few shots of a body of water, including four derelict four-masted schooners. A shot of a rocky shore line; light house. Two shots of a dog in front of a house in the snow. A few shots of horses twitching logs in a snowy forest. Man standing on logs while horses work. Older man follows with peavey. Logs rolled onto back of a truck. Horses approach with man on empty skid. Footage of people skiing and relaxing at a ski resort at Cranmore Mt. in New Hampshire, including a ski lift that runs on tracks up the mountain. Pan of people seated in sun outside lodge. Aerial views of lakes, houses and woods. River, and golf course from the air, road. Large lakes from the air. Black and white footage of two men with a pair of oxen haying. Small boy with team of oxen. Another team of four oxen and man leading them while they twitch logs.

Can DescriptionsNotes on can: “World’s Fair 1939; Hurricane; Maine Scenes; Logging; Skiing; Air Scenes - Naples; Logging w/ oxen”