Summer boat trip and Lake Champlain, 1929--Fitch family--home movies. Reel 3

1930.0003
Bohlen, Scott Collection
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1929
Black-and-white home movies of the Fitch family's 1929 boating trip and summer at Lake Champlain.
Shot from moving boat of ships. Intertitle: "Vic at the Pump, Greenwich": man in boat; Intertitle: "Bearing #1 Mirmaronack [sic]": men in boat; Intertitle: "Bearing #2 City Island": men in boat; Intertitle: "South Hero": man with American flag on flagpole and raising it, man standing by ocean; lawn bowling; boy driving pony cart; Intertitle: "Bearing #3 Tarrytown": woman sitting on dock; view of boats in harbor; motorboat (Chriscraft?) being lowered into water, driving off; Intertitle: "The Champlain Canal": boat in canal locks; woman in cloche sitting in back of boat; moving forward toward lock doors; shot of canal/shore from moving boat; boy (wearing captain's hat) and girl posing on porch of stone house; Intertitle: "Summer at Lake Champlain 1929": lawn tennis; scenic shot of lake; woman driving horsedrawn cart with lake in background; kids dressed up parading with horse and horsedrawn cart, dogs (girl holding parasol on horseback); exterior shot of house/garage and grounds; someone jumping off raft into lake; swimming in lake.

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