[Walter J. Clark--home movies] Reel 5

Donor-supplied NotesCan numbered (2) Loose note in can - Reel #5. Sunday August 6, 1933 at Bar Harbor. First, taken of the British Ships crews and Band, as they left the ESS Wharf for Episcopal Church, then I took them as they turned off Main St. to Met [sic] Desert St (three officers by themselves on Mt. Desert St., Then I took the picture of the 'Bowdoin' Adm. Perry North Pole Ship, as she left harbor for sail, then the parade again as they came from chirch [sic] down Main Street, then sailors and officers leaving wharf in Boats, for ships, then final Picture from tow path of the British ships, Dana Norfold and USS Indianapolis, and the Yacht in front center was the Astors, then Jonahs and Velmas in front of store and Ivas. a nice hot day, Geo. R. Hadlock went with me to Bar Harbor. Ell Fair & Co [?] Aug 1933 & [?].

Viewing Notes"Reel 5" "Photography by Clark, The Printer, Ellsworth, Maine." "Ellsworth Fair 1933, August 30." Wyman Park Fairgrounds was located off East Main Street, and the short street known as Fairgrounds Road, just above Beal's Avenue marks the spot. A dirt horse track for sulky racing, a grandstand, outbuildings, tents and a ferris wheel. A young girl tap dances on a large, open, wooden stage to the music from a man on banjo and one on accordian. A horse who has lost its driver sprints down the track and an attendant rushes out but can't stop it. A man and a woman waltz together beside the track. A man sings to the music another man plays on the accordian. "Nights of Arabia Dancing Girl Show", banner on tent with three women in flowy outfits on a little stage out in front. A barker with megaphone is beside them. More horse racing. Views from the ferris wheel of parked cars and a road below. Chariot racing with two horses pulling each. Drivers in Arabic costumes. Woman in white body suit performs stunts on trapeze above the heads of a crowd of male onlookers. More views from the Ferris wheel. Young women milling around a male police officer in the crowd. Water Street in Ellsworth, Maine. Exterior shots of Walter J. Clark's Print Shop. Includes signs, awnings, car in open garage, house next door as well as side street view up the hill. "British Ships Crews Marching to Episcopal Church, Bar Harbor, Sunday, August 6, 1933." Sailors march from the Town dock and all over downtown and are joined by marching bands and automobiles before returning to the dock and loading into small boats to return to their ships. Great shots of Bar Harbor storefronts. "British Ships, "Dana" and "Norfolk," "U.S.S. "Indianapolis" Astor's Yacht in foreground." Scan of the harbor including boats, anchored ships and the Porcupine Islands off Bar Harbor. The next intertitle that states: "Admiral Peary Ship, "Bowdoin" at Harbor Bar, Made at Bucksport for trip to North Pole" is COMPLETELY FALSE. (The schooner Bowdoin was designed by William H. Hand, Jr., and built in 1921, in East Boothbay, Maine, at the Hodgdon Brothers Shipyard now known as Hodgdon Yachts. She is the only American schooner built specifically for Arctic exploration, and was designed under the direction of explorer Donald B. MacMillan. --Wikipedia Peary's ship was the S.S. Roosevelt, launched from McKay & Dix Verona Island Shipbuilding Co, Verona Island, Maine on March 23, 1905.) Anyway, beautiful shots of the "Bowdoin" and crew heading out of the harbor. "The Hancock County Bar honoring H.E. Ham;in for 50 years a member. Left, Judges, Deasy, Dunn, Hamlin, Judge Hudson Presiding. Sept. 15, 1933." The men stand on the courthouse steps with Hamlin holding a two-handed silver platter. "Sept. 23, 1933, County Commissioners H.B. Moor, Chairman Geo. L. Beck, Sim. H. Mayo." The three commissioners walk up the Hancock County courthouse steps abreast. One is smoking a cigar. "Deputy Clerk of Courts, Robert P. King, Attorney General, Clyde Chapman, Belfast." A woman with a man following walk up the court steps. Then another man. All look over at the camera. (The woman remains nameless in the intertitles.) ""Tim" Moseley Jury, Mrs. Hooper, Star Witness. Judge Hudson." A group of women and men climb the courthouse steps. Then Judge Hudson. Then a larger group going in, perhaps the gallery. Sailboat and skiff anchored with mountain (Schoodic?) in background. Dark shots of stone mansion on hilly street that leads to the ocean. "West Point Cadets Pass in Review on the Boston Common, Nov. 11, 1933, pictures by Clark the Printer." Throngs of cadets march around the Common with brownstones in the background. Man with a camera and tripod runs to get a different shot. Men in suits gather with man in top hat. Police stay close to him. Walter J. Clark films himself looking at print jobs around Boston. A van goes by with a great ad for Wrigley's on it. Intertitle, "If You are in a Hurry, Let Clark Do It." Clark traces the raised edge of the leg of a woman printed on an oversized poster for the show, "Hello Broadway, starring Lee Gajls, Sid Deon and Joe Baxter plastered on a storefront. He then tenderly touches the printed face of an actress posted on a storefront. Shots of rocky coastline, boats moored in a harbor. Mansions in the distance. Shot ends at pier/dock. Building with many flags and dock right on the water. Man in a captain's hat steers a picnic boat away from dock with two passengers. A black bear cub chained to a piece of lumber on the grass. Possibly footage of Otto Gray and his Oklahoma Cowboys sitting in the grass in front of cars and behind a rope barricade. Maybe the circus at Ellsworth? (Otto's were the first nationally famous cowboy western music band[3] in the United States, and the first cowboy band to appear on the cover of Billboard (June 6, 1931). Formed in Ripley, Oklahoma in the early 1920s, the band was first known as McGinty's Oklahoma Cowboy Band, for the leader, Billy McGinty, a well-known cowboy, former Rough Rider, and world champion rider with Buffalo Bill's show. The band members were authentic cowboys from ranches in and around Ripley. Their first promoter, George Youngblood, introduced them saying, "I wish to say of this bunch of cowboys that they are not only good fiddlers, but can ride or rope anything that has horns, hide or hair." After McGinty left to become the postmaster of Ripley, Otto Gray (1884–1967), took over as bandleader as well as manager. With the extensive traveling generated from their popularity, the original band members dropped out to stay with their jobs and families. Gray filled their places with professional musicians willing to spend most of their time on the road. Playing on the vaudeville circuits in the Midwest and Northeast, and nationwide over some 130 radio stations, they played the first cowboy music most Americans outside of the West had ever heard. One of their most popular tunes was "Midnight Special", performed by member Dave "Pistol Pete" Cutrell;[5] Cutrell's "Pistol Pete's Midnight Special" with McGinty's band was also the first version of "Midnight Special" ever recorded. The band lasted until the early 1930s when economic situations led them to disband. -Wikipedia Pan of surrounding homes and tents. Also the band's trailer with a sign, "Otto Gray and his Oklahoma Cowboys, N.B.C. Radio Stars appearing in Person With Kay Bros. Circus." Two women stand beside the sign. One is dressed in western wear. A girl in a plaid dress eating an ice cream cone breaches the rope barricade. A shot of the road next to the circus. Abrupt edit to parade in Bar Harbor. Marching bands and lots of bunting on storefronts. Marching by the Criterion Theatre on Cottage Street as the procession moves off Main Street. An aggressive baton twirler. Back to Bar Harbor navy ships and yachts anchored off the Porcupine Islands.