Family, Christmas, Vinalhaven, Maine, 1940-1942--Cameron A. Rae--home movies. Reel 3

Date1940 – 1942

Can Descriptions"Family V. Haven"

AbstractCompiled black-and-white and color home movies including scenes of extended family at Christmas, summer shore and boating scenes shot from the Penobscot Bay ferry W.S. White, and family scenes in Vinalhaven, Maine.

Viewing NotesIn black-and-white, four men indoors in suits, boys and girl seated on floor by Christmas tree; cut to outdoors, extended family portrait in winter coats. Cut to color, man in doorway decorated with wreath and red ribbon, followed by woman in same doorway. Dark shot of Christmas tree. Man hand-feeding a squirrel on a windowsill. Family exits house for family portraits. Dark shots of children at the tree indoors. Another sequence of family posing for group portraits in the yard and on the front steps. Cut to close up shots of flowers in bloom on trees and bushes. Cut to dark outdoor family portraits, all dressed in dark suits and coats, posing by car. Car drives off with boy waving from passenger side window. Scenes from the ferry W.S. White: lighthouse at end of jetty, sailboats, rocky shores, sail with skull and crossbones. Children in summer clothes by water near cabin, stone bridge in background. Larger family group walks along rocks. Children on swing set, man cooking over camp stove. Posing by the W.S White, followed by shots back to dock from departing ferry. Man bringing sheep out from barn, sheep poses with family. Family shots at garden near cabin, family swimming off rocks, boy and girl posing with kittens, family group portrait at side of house, kittens in close-up, group departing by boat from dock, scenes from boat, boat drops off part of group, seen waving as boat pulls away.