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1) 0706.0001 [Forrest Colby--home movies] Reel 1
Label on can: '1931, Christmas, Shanghai, Hunting.' // 1939 date code on film. // Notes indicate footage is 1931. // Mother and infant, family and children on ship. In China, sh...;Reel 5502 BRANCH COLLECTION 01:24 Mother and baby. Family on shipboard. Boy climbs ladder. Views of ship. 02:52 In China, women with baskets outside. Picking things up...
10) 0706.0002 [Forrest Colby--home movies] Reel 2
Label on can: '#5 Leaving Shanghai 1933. Bou Dam, England, Paris, Clevelly, etc.' // 1931 and 1932 edge codes on film. // Shots of Shanghai, city from water. Shots of suburbs (E...
4) 0706.0003 [Forrest Colby--home movies] Reel 3
Label on can: 'Paper Hunt, Amherst Ave. Shanghai.' // Date from edge code on film. // Children in yard, tricycles, sand box. Beach, hunt, house outside.
32) 0706.0004 [Forrest Colby--home movies] Reel 4
Reel 5501 Date code on original 16mm film is 1934. Dalmatians with Joan (young girl) in garden. Swan house in Columbia Circle, Shanghai. Outdoor table with mother. Sm...;Label on film: 'Hangchow, Lianchi First Part Street Scenes.' // Date from edge code on film. // Fox hunt or steeple chase and other horse scenes. Children in yard. Shots of rive...
33) 0706.0005 [Forrest Colby--home movies] Reel 5
Label on film: 'Jess Field & house boating street scene 1934.' // 1933 edge code on film. // Pond in park with toy sail boats, boat on river. Dragon on stakes about a block long...
6) 0706.0006 [Forrest Colby--home movies] Reel 6
Date from edge code on film. // Assembled trims of China including Shanghai house of Branch family, yard, car.
34) 0706.0007 [Forrest Colby--home movies] Reel 7
Label on film: 'Hangchow 2, NY '34.' // 1934 edge code on film. // China. Ferry, big car. Lakes with boats. Water buffalo plowing. Countryside, mountains. Traveling, various sce...
8) 0706.0008 [Forrest Colby--home movies] Reel 8
Label on film: 'Swan Culbertson and Fritz for J.E. Swan, Swan, Gibraltar, Sassoon House, Shanghai China.' // Date from edge code on film. // Store house, sunset, huntsmen.
9) 0706.0009 [Forrest Colby--home movies] Reel 9
Label on film: 'J.E. Swan, Sassoon House.' // Date from edge code on film. // Christmas presents.
10) 0706.0010 [Forrest Colby--home movies] Reel 10
Label on film: 'Shanghai Easter 1936.' // 1935 edge code on film. Color faded to red. // Easter egg hunt outside in yard.
11) 0706.0011 [Forrest Colby--home movies] Reel 11
Date from edge code on film. Kodacolor.
35) 0706.0012 [Forrest Colby--home movies] Reel 12
Label on film: '#1 color, Honolulu, Pap Hunt, Garden, 1934.' // 1933 edge code on film. Kodacolor. // Beach, hunt, yard. [Shanghai Paper Chase.] ;July 20, 2017 Dino Everett projected original Kodacolor reel in program for opening night of NHF Symposium. Color was clearly reproduced. Content seems to be predominantly the ...
36) 0706.0013 [Forrest Colby--home movies] Reel 13
Label on film: 'Houseboating.' // 1934 edge code on film. Process stamp inside film box is June 12, 1934. Kodacolor. // Motor launch, houseboats.
14) 0706.0014 [Forrest Colby--home movies] Reel 14
Label on film: 'Maine Reel 1.' // Date from edge code on film. // Canoe setting off, camp scenes.
15) 0706.0015 [Forrest Colby--home movies] Reel 15
Date from edge code on film.
16) 0706.0016 [Forrest Colby--home movies] Reel 16
Label on film: 'Bingham House.' // Date from edge code on film. // Colby house in Bingham, Maine.
17) 0706.0017 [Forrest Colby--home movies] Reel 17
Label on film: 'Ruggles Family.' // Date from edge code on film.
18) 0706.0018 [Forrest Colby--home movies] Reel 18
Date range from edge codes on film. // Titles: Breman, P. Pond [Pleasant Pond] Canoe trip. Lake scenes including baby playing with large toy duck on porch, MS of people riding s...
36) 0706.0019 [Forrest Colby--home movies] Reel 19
Label on film: 'Swans P.P. 1933.' // 1929 edge code on film.
20) 0706.0020 [Forrest Colby--home movies] Reel 20
Label on film: '#3, Aquaplane, SF [San Francisco] and P. Pond.' Note in can: 'Mostly Pleasant Pond.' // Date from edge code on film. // Dock at Pleasant Pond, Maine, rowing, swi...
21) 0706.0021 [Forrest Colby--home movies] Reel 21
Date range from edge codes on film. Process date: October 29, 1935. // Snowy scenes with building sign in background that says Augusta House.
22) 0706.0022 [Forrest Colby--home movies] Reel 22
Dupont film stock.
23) 0706.0023 [Forrest Colby--home movies] Reel 23
Label on film: 'England.' // Date from edge code on film. Also Agfa film stock. // Titles: Broadway - England. Short British sequence including steamship, village and airplanes.
24) 0706.0024 [Forrest Colby--home movies] Reel 24
Label on film: 'Tempest Jumping Jubilee.' // Date from edge code on film. Process date on film box: May 10, 1935. // Horse jumping, slow motion, underexposed. Polo. Night time s...
25) 0706.0025 [Forrest Colby--home movies] Reel 25
Label on film: 'House, Xmas, '35.' // Date range from edge codes on film.
28) 0706.0026 [Forrest Colby--home movies] Reel 26
Label on film: 'Dam Wash. Cty. Machias.' // Date from edge code on film.
27) 0706.0027 [Forrest Colby--home movies] Reel 27
Label on film: 'Buchanans.' // Date from edge code on film.
28) 0706.0028 [Forrest Colby--home movies] Reel 28
Label on film: '1936.' // 1935 edge code on film.
36) 0706.0029 [Forrest Colby--home movies] Reel 29
Label on tape: 'June 1936.' // 1935 edge code on film.
30) 0706.0030 [Forrest Colby--home movies] Reel 30
Label on film: 'Camp 1936.' Can note: 'Good reel.' // 1936 edge code on film.
31) 0706.0031 [Forrest Colby--home movies] Reel 31
Label on film: '1938.' // 1938 edge code on film.
32) 0706.0032 [Forrest Colby--home movies] Reel 32
Date from edge code on film.
21) 0706.0033 [Forrest Colby--home movies] Reel 33
Label on film: 'Hunt Jumps.' // Date from edge code on film. // Hunting from horseback.
23) 0706.0034 [Forrest Colby--home movies] Reel 34
Label on film: '1940.' // 1939 edge code on film.
24) 0706.0035 [Forrest Colby--home movies] Reel 35
Label on film: '1940 Day on the Kennebec.' // 1939 edge code on film.
25) 0706.0036 [Forrest Colby--home movies] Reel 36
Label on film: '1940.' // 1939 edge code on film.
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