[Estella Doughty--home movies] Reel 4

Date1960s

Can DescriptionsBox notes: 'Earl Auntie and oxen, Susan at Julia's'

Viewing NotesA woman in a blue dress in a field (Julia Bryant). An Ox in a field walking toward the camera. CU of the ox. A man (Earl Bryant) walks toward the ox cautiously with a bucket. The ox eats out of the bucket and trots away. Dark unrecognizable footage. Cut to Earl with the oxen yoked together. He leads them out of the barn and lines them up with the plow. He leads them into the field with the plow. Julia looking at one of the ox in a pen. A man on a tractor. Julia with a cup watering her flowers. Cut to the Raven farm in Freedom. A girl is riding a horse up and down the side of the chicken barn. Inside the chicken barn: a lot of chickens. [End of Reel]

Anecdotal Comments & ReflectionsNotes from viewing with family (mostly Julia Raven, with some input from Mark and Dee): Aunt Julia. Pete or Ruben the Bull. Earl and Julia owned two Oxen. At their farm in Dresden. Earl hooking up the Ox. Aunt Julia and her flowers. Some sort of contraption Earl rigged up. The Chicken barn on Julia Raven’s Farm in Freedom. One of the kids riding a horse.