[Archie Stewart--home movies] Reel 163

Date1969

Can DescriptionsAmateur footage. Archie Stewart can notes in quotes: 'Visit Maryah's Bedford 28-29 May. Esther. Geo with snorkel, tomato plant. Geo on Birthday, 2 August. Geo makes annual dep A. Murray. 6 grandchildren to camp. 14-30 Aug. First night at Mary's, Bedford, 14 Aug. Sept trip to Camp, 21 Sept - 3 Oct. Hunting trip 2-15 November. Thanksgiving and deliver new car to Mary.' NHF cataloguer's notes for Reel 163, 3/26/99 JB: Two women walk in field to scarecrow on stake, red shirt, TV dinner trays dangling from arms. African American woman poses in flower covered hat, garden in BG; Esther Gunther. Wearing black dress with lace sleeves and pearl necklace. Second pose beside flowering bush. George in snorkel mask and flippers hams for the camera, standing on lawn, sniffs tomato plant. Young boy seated at table surrounded by birthday cards. Grandmother presents birthday cake to boy and kisses neck. Boy blows out candles and pretends to choke on smoke. Boy cuts cake with large knife and serves. Pan down from roof of white building with huge white columns. Young boy and grandmother stand on steps. Interior of bank, boy stands at counter beside bank guard. VS of boy making deposit, includes sign in FG on Dividend and Interest rate 5% per annum. Exterior, family on patio. Man in uniform carving meat. Children seated in folding chairs eating. MS of woman and children posing with large number of small fish, woodpile in BG. Second shot of kids holding fish catch and mugging. Various CUs on vegetation? traps? kid's game? Earl Bonness cooking at outdoor barbeque grill, serves children. CU on meat cooking in skillet over open flame. More shots of kids with twig toys. Sweet peas growing out of tree stump. Boy in diving gear at end of dock, children watch, adjust oxygen tank. VS of men boating, children swimming, sunbathing. Snorkeling from boat in middle of lake. Brief shot of teenage kids at picnic table in dappled light. Guide Earl Bonness and children load boats and fishing gear, head out on lake. Eating at picnic table beside log cabin. Boy on swing. Boy and girl shooting rifle. Boy cleaning rifle on beach. Children building sandcastle. Archie Stewart in Army uniform salutes for camera. Various CUs of landscape paintings. Man points to date on wall calendar: September 1969, rips off page and points to October 1. Interior of cabin, men with tools. Woman lounging on bed, reading. VS exteriors: Lane through woods. Breeze on trees. Fall foliage. Interiors: group of men in cabin. Point to wall calendar, November 1969. Seated at table with tape recorder. Man on ladder high in tree rigs rope to hang bear. Black bear hanging, Archie Stewart beside. Birds feeding in marsh grass, chickadee eating at suet feeder [several shots out of focus]. Two women stand talking beside cars. Young girl feeds chickadee from hand. Boy playing basketball in front of garage. VS family seated at dining table.

Anecdotal Comments & ReflectionsMary Stewart Hafer notes: 1969 Bedford, MA. Mother and I in back yard looking ato "Col. Klink," the scarecrow. Newburgh, Esther Gunther in fancy floral hat with corsage. Rex Sauls in snorkle gear by tomato plant. Rex in 388 Grand Street kitchen, then dining room. Archie. Rex wtih birthday cake (birthday, August 2). Beau Rivage Restaurant, north of Newburgh. Mother and Rex. Rex with Arthur Murray (Archie's business partner) at Newburgh Savings Bank, where Archie always had Rex deposit most, but not all, of his birthday money. Bedford MA, 137 North Street, my house. Archie and kids en route to Maine, stopping at my hosue. Patio meal. Camp. Kids by woodshed with long string of small fish. Kids making fairy houses and gardens. Outdoor fire with fish frying. Mary Lou with twig horse. John with scuba gear. Tom driving canoe. Snorkling. John doing scuba, Tom helping. Girls sunbathing. Scuba from lobster boat. Kids eating at outdoor table. Visitors in canoe. Early and kids on dock. Canoes setting out with Earl and Tom driving. Tecky Bonness, cook at outdoor dinner. Hafer dachshund, "Norton." John and Abby shooting. Kids burying patient dachshund in sand. Archie in his WWII military uniform. Paintings. #2 is our house at 137 North Road by Mother. Pointing to Oct date on Broadway Garage calendar. Earl and Archie had drilling hole in wall of #3 cabin to hang reading lamp. Mother reading by it. Fall foliage. Tommy Lockhead and Earl at camp iwth 2 others. Calendar: November 11, 1969. Archie with phonograph or tape recorder. Hanging bear carcass. [I think the bear was shot in 1967] Juncos and chickadees by car tracks and at feeder. Bedford, MA. Car by our house. Me with Abby's friendly chickadee. Abby with it. Kids shooting baskets by our shed. Archie changing license plates: NY 7D388 on cars. Thanksgiving dinner at our house. Tom's fraternity brother Pete Burke, (now a physician in CA) is there. Archie enjoying pie with ice cream.