[Fields--home movies] Reel 10

Date1962

Can DescriptionsAmateur footage of family activities. NHF xfer notes as follows. Reel numbers are NHF-assigned. 10. Cavaliers at Catskill NY '62, Xmas '62, Danny C. and Danny [?], Danny '62, Karen and Danny '62, Boy's Club Cavaliers Indoor Show. (UNEDITED) NHF Cataloguer's notes: Reel 10. Intertitles: '1962. (1) Cavaliers at Catskill N.Y. (2) Christmas. (3) Danny C. & Danny F. (4) Karen & Danny (5) Boy's Club Cavalier indoor show.' 14:07. Scarlet jacketed cavalier group assembled at side of field. Band. Unit flags displayed. Little girl runs in back of cavalier group. Group marches in place. Right tracking pan. of entire unit. 15:04. Marshall, other leader in front. Leader does semicomic march steps on lawn. Cavalier group on bleachers. Drmmers march forward. Flag bearers lead group. Cavaliers march in place. (Cataloguer's note: This is the BOY cavalier group as distinguished from adult unit on former reel.) Rear view of group. Side of drum states: 'Boy's Cavaliers...' Large lettered poster stating: 'Merry Christmas!' Christmas presents around and beneath tree. 16:00. Pan. of presents, some wrapped and some displayed. Colorfully, well-wrapped. Vertical scan of Christmas tree. Small statues of wise men displayed. Boy toddler on carpet. 17:01. Slightly older brother appears. Girl, teenage boy sitting on couch. Woman, her hair in curlers. Toddler sits in woman's lap. Boy rides on kiddiecar. Two children on sled. Boy, girl. Toddlers. They walk about in snow. Boy forms 'o' with mouth, claps hands. 18:01. Boy stands on snowbank. He jumps up and down. Toddlers in their snowsuits. Toddler jumps up and down on snowbank. Toddler jumps into middle of high snowbank. Toddler buddy climbs up snowbank. Man looks on. He wears knitted cap. Breath visible as vapor. CU toddlers side by side. One at right claps. 19:01. They walk through snow. Boy toddler rolls in snow. Friend runs about. Standing in snowbank, toddler grasps clothesline. He moves around at top of snowbank. Pulls on line. 20:03. Smiles, holding on with one hand. He jiggles up and down. Slides down snowbank on his posterior. Smiles joyfully. He ascends past snowman. Grasps clothesline with vigor. Repeats slide down snowbank. 21:04. Repeats the same. Wades through snow. Little girl snug in snowsuit. She adjusts her mittens. Woman, boy toddler in hand, walks up path. Boy and girl toddler. Boy smiles. Girl baehind him. Two young men, about same age, in doorway of home. They emerge. Walk down path. One with duffel bag looks back. 22:02. Girl toddler. Boy has stick. Boy bends stick. The two in space between two snowbanks. Holding hands, they walk forward. Boy waves. He tries to get little girl to do same. 23:05. Boy removes girl's mitten and places it on more securely. Marching band dressed in colonial military style. Playing instruments, they march forward. They march in place. Boy cavalier band-marching unit. They turn, march smartly. Colonial band. Conductor in front. Pan. of group, gesturing. Play instruments while standing in place. American flag bourne in front, boy cavalier unit, with red-plumed hats, marches forward. 24:09. Bearers of unit flags. Marching in place. Unit marches expertly. Woodwind section. Rear view of unit. Marshall or conductor in back. Rear pan. unit. Unit about-faces. Boy. Toddler girl in Easter bonnet, attire. 25:08. Both boy and girl have Easter baskets. They stand near car. Boy walks forward. He still wears minimal winter clothing. Girl walks about with her Easter basket. Boy, girl side by side. Boy smiles. Boy with Easter basket. Touching side of car, girl follows. 26:03. Blue uniformed marching band. Bearing unit flags, band marches along. They march in place. Separate smartly. March in street. Cymbal player vigorouly plays in rear. (End Reel 10.)