Foster Family Films, 1926-1932 [C.H.W. Foster Collection--films] Reel 1

Date1926 – 1932

Can DescriptionsFoster Family Films 1926-32 Group I Hilda Foster Films digitized 2004

Donor-supplied NotesCHWF daughters playing on Castle Farm house front lawn. Reginald C Foster at beach with sisters. RCF Family dog playing on CF front (north) lawn;; looks like Sizers to me. Rockwood H Foster (Adam) playing on front stoop of CF house. RHF playing on back (south) porch of CF. Father RCF playing with son RHF outside side (west) screen porch of CF. Mother Francis Hoar Foster joins RCF and RHF outside screen porch at CF. RHF starts hamming is up with his parents RCF & FHF. RHF plays with his pet rabbit. RHF helps pile leaves. Baby Charles Henry Wheelwright Foster II at hospital. RHF eats banana and plays with Father RCF & family dog. RHF at kids party on front lawn of CF with Moms watching; RCF twirls top. Baby CHWFII comes home from hospital. Dark, underexposed footage. Play boxing between ? And ? Lots of cousins at Ships Cabin porch with CHWF. Somebody's birthday (CHWF?). Two young girls…who? 4 young girls and woman. Girl holding baby…looks like Hilda? Han[d]some couple on SC porch. Family playing dodge ball (Sizers?). Kids boarding 2-3 cockles and rowing off somewhere. Brief family porch scene. Arriving Castle Farm front porch, then playing back porch in winter. Baby parade! 5 babies, five seconds each; who are they? Two gir[l]s and dog playing outside west porch at CF. Three girls playing with tricycle outside CF west and south porches. Now four girls and tricycle playing at CF front lawn. After ushering the girls inside, Mom struts her stuff. Pana[o]ramic view from porch south toward Foster Cove and the Charles River. Lots of girls playing on back (south) lawn. Girls play hop scotch game; PRICELESS! Another baby! With proud Dad. Couple raking leave with horse-drawn wagon somewhere. Underexposed interior footage; Thanksgiving dinner in CF dining room, with separate adults & kids tables? 3 girls and boy on wharf, boarding cockle; joined by more kids; supervised by adults; rowing off somewhere. CHWF walks his dog. Small day sailor gets launched at Marblehead; then motors off. Faithful doggie. CHWF and Mary tee off at golf course; also another couple. Sailing A9008. A warship. A very large motor yacht, apparently the Capetown. Ships Cabin family parade from youngest to oldest. Playing in the leaves at Castle Farm.

Anecdotal Comments & Reflections[Notes from CHW Foster's Diary] 4/16/1927 "Reg, Frances, Adam & #2 (no name as yet) with Miss Grimble (Nurse) and Madamoiselle (Adams Nurse) are all now assembled at Castle Farm − a merry party." 11/30/1933 "Thanksgiving Day and my birthday (74th). Mary and I motored to Caroline’s in New Haven where 16 sat down to dinner – and a good one. Hilda also was there and all the Sizers except Cally (at school) also some local friends of the Sizers." 8/12/20[19]29"Golf with Mary and Mr. & Mrs. Stetson. Mary and Mrs. Stetson came out all even so also did Caleb and I but they beat us best ball and aggregate −"

Viewing NotesA blimp/dirigible flying overhead. A man playing tennis in front of a large building. (The Eastern or Corinthian Yacht Club, Marblehead, Massachusetts) Shot of a different man playing tennis. Shots of various small sailboats. (Donor Notes: “Could be T-boats or MB boats racing”. Two sailboats being towed. Five girls in a field. (Lib, Cally, Hilda and Mary Sizer, with Cathy Tappan.) The girls playing with dolls, running around and doing somersaults. The girls waving at the camera. The girls standing in a line, shortest to tallest. The girls playing ring-around-the-rosy, then line up again. A girl (Cathy Tappan) working a winch to raise a boat (the Seaweed). A man in a sailor’s uniform assists her. Lowering the boat into the water. Cathy at the winch. (Marblehead, Massachusetts) A woman wearing a black armband (Dede Farwell) and four children (Cathy Tappan, Marian, Edith and Frank Farwell) eating along a rock wall. The children playing on the beach while the woman watches. (Marblehead, Massachusetts) Three women exiting a parked automobile. (Dede Farwell, Sue Foster and an unidentified woman.) The women shake hands and pose for the camera. (Marblehead, Massachusetts) The three women in a garden. A newfoundland dog playing in a field. A woman playing tug-of-war with the dog. A boy (Rockwood “Adam” Foster) playing with toy boats in front of a door at Charles River. A woman (Hilda Foster) helps him. A man (Reginald Foster) and a boy (Rockwood “Adam” Foster) playing in the grass in front of a house. A woman (Fran Foster) sitting beside them. A boy (Rockwood “Adam” Foster) playing with a rabbit in a hutch. Adam carrying a bundle of grass. A woman with a nurse’s cap holding a baby. A boy (Rockwood “Adam” Foster) eating a banana. Adam, a man (Reginald Foster) playing with a Newfoundland dog. A group of children (including Rockwood “Adam” Foster) playing with shovels while a group of women watch. A man (Reginald Foster) plays with a diabolo. Automobiles driving up a road. Children and adults getting out of cars. People gathered around a baby carriage. Two women lift the baby carriage to carry it indoors. (Charles River House, Needham, Massachusetts) Shadowy shots of people indoors. A boy (Frank Farwell the younger) boxes with a man (Frank Farwell the elder) A group of people pose for the camera on a deck overlooking the water. (The Ship’s Cabin Hotel/Boston Yacht Club, Marblehead, Massachusetts) A man (C.H.W. Foster) on the deck of the Ship’s Cabin Hotel. (Marblehead, Massachusetts) Another man is visible in the shadows. A baby bassinette. Two girls playing on a dirt road. A group of children (Cally Sizer, Frank Farwell, Cathy Tappan, Edith Farwell, and Marion Farwell.) stand along a wall to pose for the camera. The children play catch with a ball with someone out of the shot. Close up of a girl (Hilda Sizer) with a baby (Fan Farwell). A woman and a man (possibly Al and Dede Farwell) exiting the Ship’s Cabin Hotel. A woman (Hilda Chase Foster) on the deck of the Ship’s Cabin Hotel. A group of adults and children play with a ball, lined up along a wall. Includes members of the Sizer, Farwell and Tappan families. A group of children in a dory, while a group of adults watch from the quay. The children rowing away, while a man sitting in the stern smoking a pipe. The group in the boat rowing and waving to the camera. A group of adults rowing past the camera. A woman (Mary Foster, C.H.W Foster’s second wife) with other people leaning on the railing. A group of children playing outside. Children playing with a Newfoundland dog and a small dog. Close up of a baby. (Possibly Fan Farwell) Two girls (possibly Jane and Barbie Weld) outside. Both run close to the camera. One girl stands with a dog while another pours water from a jug. The girls playing and posing for the camera. The girls playing with blocks. (New Hampshire?) A group of girls running out the front door of a house. One girl (Mary Sizer) on a tricycle. A woman (possibly Fran Tappan) with the girls. All go inside. A woman exiting the house. Panning shot of landscape from the Charles River house. A group of girls playing in a field overlooking the water. Girls pose for the camera with a small dog. The girls playing leapfrog. A man holding a baby. Children gather around. A man and a horse drawn wagon. A woman raking leaves. The man and the woman (Barbie and Linzee Weld?) kiss. Shot of the horse and wagon. The man and woman raking. Dark scene of people eating around a table. A group of girls gathered on the quay. A sign for ‘MAINE RAILWAY’ in the background. A man coiling a rope. Panning view of the quay and people. A man (Captain Giles?) standing in front of a stack of lobster traps draws in a dingy. Children (Cally Sizer, Frank Farwell, Lib Sizer, Cathy Tappan and others) getting into the dingy. A man (Charles “Carl” Orin Foster) hands down a second set of oars. The children rowing. A man (CHW Foster) with a dog. (Ship’s Cabin Hotel, Marblehead, Massachusetts) A man (CHW Foster) and children (Lib Sizer with other Sizer and Farwell children) with a dog. Shot of a boat carrying the sign ‘Colonial Gasoline’. A sailboat being launched. (Marblehead, Massachusetts) Boats on the water. Various shots of a dog. A man playing golf. A woman playing golf. A different man and woman golfing. Various shots of a sailing sloop. Shots of a large U.S. navy vessel. Shot of a town on the shore. (Marblehead, Massachusetts?) A man (Wiley Nichols) steering a sailboat. Another man seated beside him. A man and a woman (Linzee and Barbara “Barbie” Weld) with their baby (Barbara “Barbie” Weld) on the deck of the Ship’s Cabin Hotel. (Marblehead, Massachusetts) The family gathered on the deck of the Ship’s Cabin Hotel, walking toward the camera. (Includes Frank Farwell, Fan Farwell, Adam [Rockwood Foster?], Leb Sizer, Mary Sizer, Edie Farwell, Marion Farwell, Hilda Sizer, Cathy Tappan, Ruth Foster, Cal Sizer, Deedee Farwell, Tubby Sizer, Al Farwell, Cath Tappan, Bob Tappan, Carl, CHW Foster.) An adult holds a baby’s hands as they walk. People (including CHW Foster, Cathy Tappan, Lady Mary, Cal Sizer, Dede Farwell and others) gathered on the deck of the Ship’s Cabin Hotel. (Marblehead, Massachusetts) A woman playing with a dog. Children and adults playing in autumn leaves. (Possibly Cathy Tappan with members of the Sizer and Farwell families.) A toddler in a stroller and a boy holding a toy dog pose on the quay. Children climbing into a dingy. A man in a hat. The children rowing the boat. A man and a woman (Linzee and Barbara “Barbie” Weld) with their baby (Barbara “Barbie” Weld) on the deck of the Ship’s Cabin Hotel. (Marblehead, Massachusetts) The family gathered on the deck of the Ship’s Cabin Hotel. (Marblehead, Massachusetts) The group walking toward the camera. (Frank Farwell, Rockwood “Adam” Foster, Lib and Mary Sizer, Ruth Foster, Deedee Farwell, Al Farwell, Cath Tappan, Carl, CHW Foster, Lady Mary.) The family gathered on the deck of the Ship’s Cabin Hotel. (Marblehead, Massachusetts) The group walking toward the camera. (Rockwood “Adam” Foster, Frank Farwell, Lib and Mary Sizer, Barbie Weld (?), Theodore “Tubby” Sizer, Al Farwell, Reg (?), Hilda (?).) Adults and children on the deck of the Ship’s Cabin Hotel (Marblehead, Massachusetts). A woman (Dede Farwell) helps a baby (Fan?) walk. A toddler walks up. (Barbie Weld?) Adults and children stepping into a sailboat from the quay. People on the sailboat. A little girl in the woods. Men (including Wylie Nichols) and children building a branch lean-to. Two girls (Farwells) with a baby in a stroller. Adults and children building a branch lean-to in the woods. An automobile (license plate number: A2901) pulling up in front of a house. A man gets out of the car, then carries suitcases from the house to the car. Men strapping suitcases to the running board of the car. People (including Anneliese Wellershaus, Cal Sizer and Sizer children) exiting the house. They wave at the camera and get into the car. Loading more packages into the car. People standing on the porch wave as the car drives away. (Charles River House, Needham, Massachusetts) People wave as a car leaves. (Charles River House, Needham, Massachusetts) People standing on the porch. Shots of people indoors. (Cath Tappan, Lady Mary, Theodore “Tubby” Sizer, Sizer girls, Aunt Deedee Farwell, Frank[?].) Children getting into an automobile. A woman and a boy seated on a couch. Children seated around a table. Women in suits and dresses walking up the road. A line of women and children in costume standing in a snowy field. Two dogs. Costumed people entering the house. (Charles River House, Needham, Massachusetts) A woman walks across the snow. Two woman and a girl walking in a garden. A child (Frank Farwell?) rowing a boat with a makeshift sail. A little girl (Barbie Weld?) standing on a beach. A group of children gathered around a baby in a sleigh. (Cally Sizer, other Sizer and Farwell children, Cal Sizer.) Children throw snow at the camera. The group poses for the camera. Women playing with a dog. A group of children playing in the snow. (Castle Farm?) Sledding. Panning shot of rowboats and sailboats at mooring in a storm. The town of Marblehead, seen from the shore. People on the deck of the Ship’s Cabin Hotel (Marblehead, Massachusetts) in a storm. Sailboats at moorings. A sailboat on the water, with Marblehead, Massachusetts in the background. (Crocker Park and [Nathanael Greene (?) Herreshoff’s] home visible.) Various other shots of sailboats. An [antenna?] seen on the peninsula. Color film of sailboats at mooring. A woman (probably Mary “Lady Mary” Foster) kneeling on the ground, watching a pheasant. People in a rowboat. (Including Carl, Captain Giles, and Cathy Tappan.) Marblehead Neck in the background. A broadside reading “JENNEY GASOLINE”. People rowing the boat. Dark shot of people indoors. Two toddlers (Ted and Alice Sizer) playing with a woman. (Their mother, Caroline Sizer.) People (members of the Sizer family) exiting a house. (Cath and Bob Tappan’s house in Needham, Massachusetts) An automobile driving past the camera. A man (Al Farwell) exiting a house. (Cath and Bob Tappan’s house in Needham, Massachusetts) A man (CHW Foster) exiting a house. (Cath and Bob Tappan’s house in Needham, Massachusetts) A woman (Hilda Foster) playing paddle tennis. (Needham, Massachusetts) A snowy scene, automobiles parked in front of a large white house. A woman running up a path, waving at the camera. People playing paddle tennis. A man (Al Farwell) and his daughter on the sidelines. Automobiles parked in front of the Charles River house (Needham, Massachusetts). People loading skies into a car. License plate “93201”. A woman looking at a map. Cars leaving. Dark shot of a toddler (Ted Sizer) playing. Other people barely visible. A man with a newspaper. An automobile (Model A?) at the Charles River house. (Needham, Massachusetts) Dark indoor shot of people around the table. Panning shot of snow-covered trees. (Charles River, Needham, Massachusetts) A group of people gathered outdoors. An adult helping a baby walk. People eating outdoors. A girl sitting in a tree climbs into a hammock. A girl waves at the camera. A toddler (Theodore “Ted” Sizer) in an outdoor playpen. A woman with a camera. Shots of various women walking past the camera. (Bethany, Connecticut) Panning shot of the landscape. Ted Sizer in the playpen. A woman in a hat leaving the house.