[Alexander Forbes—home movies] Reel 6, Accession 2533

Date1934

AbstractCan notes: " Aegean Cruise Reel 1 Naples-Delphi" Ramah was a 97 ft. schooner owned by Alexander Forbes. He sailed it to Labrador in 1931, and took an all-male amateur crew, including his brother Edward and other relatives from Cape Cod to Naples, Italy, in the summer of 1933. He left the ship there for the winter, and returned in the summer of 1934 with a crew of seventeen, including his own family, Samuel Eliot Morison, and a group of college boys to make a six weeks' cruise of the Mediterranean. Intertitle: "CAPRI, July 1 and Punta Campanella, July 2" Views of the rocky, mountainous shoreline from the Ramah. Intertitle: "AMALFI" Two young women sit on the Ramah looking out at the coastal town of Amalfi, Italy. Intertitle: "Off for the Strait of Messina. Scenes on deck and loft." View of a child swinging around deck on a bosun chair ( Irving Forbes?), while young adults sit on the deck reading, chatting. Several young men pull items out of a hold. Charlotte Grinnell Forbes (Alexander's wife) wanders around on deck. Views of several people in the rigging. A musical trio sits on deck, one plays a clarinet while the other two sing. Intertitle: " British destroyers entering PORT ARGOSTOLI, CEPHALONIA" Pans of a line of seven British naval destroyers entering a port. Intertitle: "From Cephalonia through the Gulf of Corinth stopping at Itea." Pans the mountainous coastline. Views of two men in a dory filled with bottles (wine, oil?) as if to sell them to the Ramah. Members of the sailing party relax on deck. Views of a village along the flat shoreline at the base of the mountains.