[Bos--home movies] Reel 1

Datecirca 1942

Can DescriptionsAmateur footage of family activities. Can notes and screening notes as follows. Reel numbers are NHF-assigned. Reel 1: [date code 1942] Uncle John. Daddy and cat. Frances, tea party. Frances and Billy, snowman. Frances on sled. Grandma Hooke. Sunny Clamm. ? baby. Norwood Street party. Church ladies. Nursery school. Under hose on Norwood [Street]. Auntie Ann. Lobster Pound. Norwood Street. NHF cataloguer's notes for Reel 1, 6/2/99, JS: (03:09) Elderly man walks in yard. Car goes down street. Man in chair reading book, pats cat. Little girl pours tea into cups. Drinks from cup. Eats cookie. Woman ties bib around girl's neck. Girl is in high chair. Two boys making snowman. Man shovels snow. Pickup truck motors down street. Man hauls boy aboard sled. (There are slight film faults and blemishes.) Dog and boy. Woman knits. 06:09. Boy sledding. Girl waves from window. Boy makes come-hither gesture. Girl holds doll aloft. Man and boy ride sled. Toddler wearing cap. Woman beside toddler. Woman emerges from parked car. Toddler walks down path. Woman carrying packages walks behind. Young girl in tree-swing. Young girl tricycles down walkway. Group children playing 'London Bridge. Young girls in yard. One girl plays with balloon on string. Girl stands in tree-swing. Three women. One removes hat, smooths hair. 09:09. Boy and girl, hand in hand walk in yard. Dog. Young girl and woman descend fire-escape steps. Boy and girl play in midst of ladder horizontally positioned. Children playing in sandbox. Girl on kiddiecar. Boy on tricycle. Three women. Boy and girl standing by woman's side. Children walking, playing in yard. Girl pushes another in swing. 12:09. Children playing in yard. They wear small comic hats on their heads. Two puppies sporting with each other. German sheperd and puppy frolic with each other. Boy holds squirting hose aloft. Children run past spray. Man and woman. Three people bear sign with separate word on each: 'New Street Green.' Man walks in yard. (Aggravated film faults in this shot, barely discernable.) Group of picnic tables. Child in bathing suit. Puppy. People around exterior table. (Shot vibrates. Poor photography.) Dog and people. (End Reel 1)