[Maxim--home movies] Reel 49

1521.0049
United States (?)
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1943
Amateur footage. Content description for Can N45; can numbers are donor assigned. No notes on can or reel. (UNEDITED) NHF cataloguer's notes for Reel 49: 05:06. Family members at home exterior. Woman takes large ball. Girls have cloths which may be garments. Girl holds basketball net. (This reel is in full color.) Woman adjusts net. Young boy in soldier's uniform. Girl bends, beating on her knees. Children on ice skates. They are on frozen pond. They skate about. Girl skates backward. Boy walks. Skates. Girl skates backward while boy skates forward. 06:02. Boy almost loses balance. Child slides down hill. Falls of off sled at end of run. Slope is well-treed. One after another, sliders descend hill among the numerous trees. Slope. Slender-trunked trees. Boy and girl at top of hill. Girl waves. Boy sits on sled, descends. No longer winter. Boy and girl play with goat outside of barn. Dog is present. Goat butts boy wearing soldier's uniform. He takes goat by nose. Horse nearby. Girl holds baby chick in her hands. 07:01. She talks to chick. Chick pecks her gently on nose. Family picnicing on rocks adjacent to water. Girl stands while others sit. She walks amongst group. Woman eats apple. Girl secures item from picnic basket. It is a potato chip which she munches. Sitting members of family. 08:00. Boy adjusts slices of watermelon. Girl eats slice of watermelon. Woman eats watermelon. Man picks seeds out of watermelon. Boy eating watermelon. Sailboat skims over water surface. Woman, girl are passengers. Girl lands boat as woman adjusts rope. 09:07. Car motors down road. It is a coupe convertible. Passengers are in rumble seat in back. Young passengers dismount from rumble seat. Girl smiles. Boy driving coupe. He looks as he backs up. He walks forward. (End of Reel 49.)

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