A family outing and Christmas, 1937; scenes from 1939--Cyrus Pinkham--home movies. Reel 4

2463.0004
Pinkham, Cyrus Collection
This item is available for reuse, please contact Northeast Historic Film;This item may be available for reuse, please contact Northeast Historic Film for more information
1937 – 1940
A family outing and Christmas, 1937; scenes from 1939--Cyrus Pinkham--home movies. Reel 4Credit:

Credit: Cyrus Pinkham Collection, Northeast Historic Film.

Compiled reel of home movies including an August 1937 trip by the Pinkhams and Stewarts to New York's Belmont Lake State Park; Christmas 1937; and various family scenes from throughout 1939.
Title: "A Family Outing/Aug. 1937" Title: "Cast/THE PINKHAMS/and/THE STEWARTS" Family packs up the car with picnic baskets and blankets, arrives to meet Peggy, then Charles, pulling up by bicycle. He retrieves his toy sailboat. Group sets up at beach, play in water. Sign: "Belmont Lake State Park" Picnic at table. Group including Margaret, Peggy, and Charles in rowboat, with toy boat floating beside. Intertitle: "Time to go home." Back in car, seen off down the road. Title: "THE END" -- Title: "CHRISTMAS 1937" (Illustrated) Newspaper: "3 Shopping Days to Christmas" Woman arrives home with packages, another at desk receives cards, turns page of desk calendar to 12/24. Boy sings with woman at piano. Boy and girl hang stockings. Calendar page turns to 12/25. Boy and girl remove stockings from mantle and eat candy. Group dressed descend stairs, open gifts at tree: toy train set, doll, tea set. Shot of set table, then group finishing meal. Title: "Finis" (Illustrated) -- Intertitle: "Mother" Exiting house in snow, on sidewalk in coat and hat. Intertitle: "Sammy 1/39" Cat playing with measuring tape, first indoors, then in snow. Intertitle: "Children enjoy snow? 1/39" Children exit house, play with sled in street. Intertitle: "Dot reading to the children 3/39" Reading newspaper. Charles plays piano. Intertitle: "Mary, Peggy, and Dot at Jones' Beach 6/39" On blanket, playing in breaking waves. Intertitle: "Aunt Fan visits us 12/39" Father raking outside, car arrives.

4 Copies

Loading...