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1) 0712.0005 [Forrest Colby--home movies] Winter logging
Men in camp (outdoors). Teamster smokes pipe. Horses come out of hovel. 18:56 Man on road with snow, uses axe to clear road. Icing truck with barrel at work. Loaded trucks on sn...
29) 0712.0004 [Forrest Colby--home movies] Logging
Can/box note: 'Logging spruce. Logging Mitchells.' NHF cataloguer's notes: Two-horse team, one sled. Another team. Child on sled. Loading sleds. Four-horse team. Two men on sled...
3) 0712.0003 [Forrest Colby--home movies] Winter logging
Can/box note: 'Logs. Log hauler.' NHF cataloguer's notes: Winter. Pan of logs on bank at landing. Men standing on them.
4) 0712.0002 [Forrest Colby--home movies] Winter log hauling
Can/box note: 'Dead River logging. March 1, 1932.' NHF cataloguer's notes: Winter. Quick shots. Horses pull logs down snow road with snub line attached. Trees marked with cross ...
2) 0712.0001 [Forrest Colby--home movies] Summer logging
Can/box note: 'Pulpwood drive.' NHF cataloguer's notes: 00:50 Camp in summer, long pan of log buildings. Horse crosses, pulling travois-type sled with box on it. Man walks behin...
4) 0706.0037 [Forrest Colby--home movies] Reel 37
Label on film: 'Colby Coming Home from St. John River Trip.'
36) 0706.0036 [Forrest Colby--home movies] Reel 36
Label on film: '1940.' // 1939 edge code on film.
35) 0706.0035 [Forrest Colby--home movies] Reel 35
Label on film: '1940 Day on the Kennebec.' // 1939 edge code on film.
65) 0706.0034 [Forrest Colby--home movies] Reel 34
Label on film: '1940.' // 1939 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.
32) 0706.0032 [Forrest Colby--home movies] Reel 32
Date from edge code on film.
31) 0706.0031 [Forrest Colby--home movies] Reel 31
Label on film: '1938.' // 1938 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.
29) 0706.0029 [Forrest Colby--home movies] Reel 29
Label on tape: 'June 1936.' // 1935 edge code on film.
28) 0706.0028 [Forrest Colby--home movies] Reel 28
Label on film: '1936.' // 1935 edge code on film.
5) 0706.0027 [Forrest Colby--home movies] Reel 27
Label on film: 'Buchanans.' // Date from edge code on film.
28) 0706.0026 [Forrest Colby--home movies] Reel 26
Label on film: 'Dam Wash. Cty. Machias.' // Date from edge code on film.
25) 0706.0025 [Forrest Colby--home movies] Reel 25
Label on film: 'House, Xmas, '35.' // Date range from edge codes on film.
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...
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.
22) 0706.0022 [Forrest Colby--home movies] Reel 22
Dupont film stock.
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.
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...
36) 0706.0019 [Forrest Colby--home movies] Reel 19
Label on film: 'Swans P.P. 1933.' // 1929 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...
17) 0706.0017 [Forrest Colby--home movies] Reel 17
Label on film: 'Ruggles Family.' // Date from edge code on film.
27) 0706.0016 [Forrest Colby--home movies] Reel 16
Label on film: 'Bingham House.' // Date from edge code on film. // Colby house in Bingham, Maine.
15) 0706.0015 [Forrest Colby--home movies] Reel 15
Date from edge code on film.
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.
13) 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.
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 ...
35) 0706.0011 [Forrest Colby--home movies] Reel 11
Date from edge code on film. Kodacolor.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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