[Henry Sturgis Dennison--home movies] Reel 41

Date1934

Can DescriptionsBox label: 'Family XII Jan 33 to 5/2/34.' // Film is warped, has occasional perf damage. // Film had moldy edges - cleaned.

Viewing NotesDVD slate: Reel 41. Family 12. January 1933-5/2/1934. Boys in jumpsuits with helmets and goggles wheel and ride scooters. Joined by girl on lawn. They are holding a kite. Woman on horse. Man in hat holds pony with child on it. Child is at ease. Man runs, child holds on to pommel and posts. Group in summer hats, wearing white shirts and ties. They get in car. Wedding. Bride in satin dress holding bouquet. She speaks to camera and smiles. Camera tilts down dress. Boy with racquet hitting ball off house roof and running. Shrubs are in flower. He wears knickers and high socks. Man has a fish out on the lawn. Displays it to camera. Teenage boy looks at it. Man picks entrails from fish, smells fish, holds it up. Much fish fetishization. He makes it "talk" by moving jaw. Woman in flowered hat and necklace, woman in bucket hat. Elders sit in covered lawn chair. Group walks to camera. Man in glasses and mustache puts on straw hat. Boy picks up and catches fish. Girl looks at camera while rocking gently on someone out of frame. Man and woman carry chair across lawn. Man, child and setter dog. Woman runs pony along street--girl posts, not holding on. Various views of them by stables. Woman in white shirt and trousers. Cows by fence. Woman in bloomer outfit chases calf. Couple herds cows. Monkeys in a cage. Chimpanzee in cage. Bird in cage walking back and forth. Goose. Wide shot of a lot of monkeys in cage descending for food. Eating bread. Woman in nurse's outfit with chimpanzee. She holds out her arm with a very small monkey on it, offers a tiny bottle. Bobcats om a cage/ Boy rides horse around a ring. Mother runs with daughter on horse next to her. Mother is wearing a dress and dress shoes. Boy stands on horse. Girl almost stands on horse. Boy and girl ride together, smiling. They are on a blanket, not a saddle. They trot. More riding scenes on a road near a barn. Riding in a field and along a dirt road. Children run in a field with dog. Dark. Boy scuffs his toes by car. Anther boy tackles a girl with a big hair ribbon and brings her down. Boy on lawn, then running along driveway. Girl pushes boy over. Girl falls down on her own. Boy throws a ball. Dark; very poor exposure of children inside. Girl on rocking horse. She has a boy in her hair. Pulls rocking horse along the floor. Climbs on. Riding scenes outside: mother and daughter.

Creator

• Henry Sturgis Dennison

• Henry Sturgis Dennison