[Cameron Bradley--home movies] Reel G

Date1937

Can DescriptionsAmateur footage. Family's viewing notes as follows (reel titles in quotes are based on can/box notes, reel letters are NHF-assigned.) G. 'Alaska #2 1937.' Alaskan scenery with mountains and ocean taken from onboard the Westward. Scenes of shrimp being handled onboard a fishing boat. More Alaskan scenery with shots of icebergs. A glacier coming to the water's edge. Scene of a rainbow. Scenes of salmon jumping in the water in nets. Scene of a US Navy boat. Tape ends with a still shot of Cameron's brother Montgomery. NHF cataloguing notes for Reel G: Pan left to right mountain range. Silhouette in sea as reflection. From boat. Bouys in foreground. Gigantic steam/cruise ship passes wharfs. Intervals of piers in MD. Mountains background. Cruise ship passes again CU. Pan slightly unsteady left to right whole port town including wharf. Shrimp boat. Men hauling up nets of shrimp. Filling barrel which overflows. Iceburgs. CU shrimp. Shot through curve of net mountains beyond and another fishing vessel. Crane shot another man with him camera. Crane shot. A man in black cape on angular lines of deck. Filming. (56:06). Iceburgs, mountains. Pan left to right glacier and CU glacier. Thick ice. Wall of ice. Man sitting up camera even with bow of boat. Laying on deck holding it. Tall pines. Deeply creviced cliffs. (61:09). Man in foreground looking at him. Chunks of ice crashing into hull of boat CU. Glacier in deep crevice of cliffs. People in rowboat passing huge iceburg wich thoroughly dwarfs them. CU individuals exiting boat. Steam bubbling with salmon. CU salmon on deck leaping over one another. Pan enormous fighting ship. In foreground gulls take off.

Creator

• Cameron Bradley

• Cameron Bradley