[Archie Stewart--home movies] Reel 133

Date1959

Can DescriptionsReel 133: Donor's can notes: 1959 Operation Shotgun 3. Eglin Air Force Base, 4-5-6 May. Family visit 30 June- 14 July. Build Ann St. Bldg. July, August. Take Mother and Esther to camp. 10-22 August. NHF cataloguer's notes for reel 133: Man climbing stairs into plane. WS nose of plane: US Air Force, people on tarmac below. Name painted on stairs: Moama Air Terminal. People touring airfield and various types of planes. Crowded reviewing stand. Demonstrations of precision flying, armaments. Bombers, jets, helicopter. Officers. Archie Stewart climbs into plane. Interior shots of passenger cabin. Young woman appears to be interviewing officer, holding small microphone? People relaxing in seats [some shots dark], reading, eating, playing cards. Man in uniform aiming hand gun. Mrs Mary Stewart pushing stroller carrying Abby Hafer with dachshund dog (Sauls dog). Family eating around kitchen table, 388 Grand Street, Newburgh. High shot of badminton game, dappled light. Dachshund playing with soccer ball. Mrs Mary Stewart walking with three children. Toddler pushing stroller holding dachshund. Construction site: Building brick facing onto cinder block wall. African American man, Arthur Murray, standing beside Buick car. African American woman, Esther, seated on bench in woods between two white men, Earl Bonness and Rob Golding. Rob and Earl Bonness carry picnic table out of cabin, laid for meal. Family eating, swatting flies (GG, Esther, Tom and John). Dark shot of people on wooded path, picking blueberries (most likely). Moving shot around group fishing from boat on lake. Tom piloting motorboat as Archie Stewart takes photographs. Elderly woman carried off boat in chair supported by two poles. African American woman, Esther, stands on wooded path, holds up fish. Lunch on porch at 350 Grand Street: Tom and John grimace and make faces at camera as grandmother lays table.