[Whipple--home movies] Reel 9

Datecirca 1920 – 1959

OtherReel 9: Man exits house with golf clubs, followed by two boys. Boys on stilts amble across lawn. Two boys on different sized stilts walking across camera frame. CU parents (25:21) watching their boys off frame. Golf putting (MD). Boy runs across camera frame glancing toward camera. CU Portrait of baby with older man. She is grimacing. He is kissing her and holding her still in front of camera. Beach scene. Older man in 1920's black, full-suit style bathing suit. Children playing background. On shore now playing. (27:07). Women and men. Children and dogs. Woman MD in dress picks up shells. Woman chases boy around, catches him. He flings himself to the ground. Autumn: girl in bonnet. Squats toward camera (face filling frame) and shows picturetaker something. Portrait of three people dressed up. Walking away. Large New England house with wrap-around porch. CU girl on porch blowing bubbles (side angle). Front angle of girl dipping wand into liquid, blowing large bubbles window with reflection of trees behind her. Joined by two men who also blow bubbles. Girl tries to catch them. Girl running away from camera. CU girl and mother smelling flowers. Waving goodbye at camera. Two men standing with child, bending down (30:28), smelling flowers, kissing girl. Baby carriage behind. CU pan two men's faces. Camera stops at younger man's face. Small hand from behind man's shoulder enters frame and starts waving. Man doesn't notice. Group portrait. Couple. Three children. Older man. One boy goofs at camera, wiggling hips, sticking out tongue. Posing. (30:32). Grandfather tries to push him off frame, then everyone ignores him. MD group standing around field. Small girl looks up into sky shading her eyes. Pan to grandfather(?) looking at her then following her gaze. Woman in nurse's uniform plucking flowers. Girl child in beret watching. Polar bears striding across frame. 2 audiocassettes of family members commenting on Reels 5-11 and Reels 12-13. Cataloguer's notes and can/reel notes are in Coll. File. Pat, 2/15/96. 3/4" and VHS reference copies have audio track from 1327.0037.