[Estella Doughty--home movies] Reel 5

Date1966

Can DescriptionsBox notes: 'Maine & Seth's Family Aug. 1966, Chek weighing clams'

Viewing NotesA puppy tied to a tree sits looking at the camera. A teenage boy (Rob) walks toward a trailer. A teenage girl (Rowena) goes to the dog and tries to untangle its rope from some trees. Cut to the two teenagers sitting on lawn chairs. They get up and walk into the trailer. Cut to Rob playing with the puppy in front of the trailer. A cat and the puppy with Rowena in front of the trailer. Four people waving at the camera walk from the trailer to a truck bed and get in the truck. Cut to a man (Robert Coombs) in a motor boat on the water. A long shot of a boat taken from the shore. Landscape in Phippsburg? Cut to a man (Chek) loading clams into a basket. He loads the baskets into the back of a truck. Three boys sitting on the hood of a car watching. Bed of the truck filled with bushels of clams. A man (Harold) picking corn. A woman picking tomatoes out of the garden. California: Cut to a little girl and boy riding their bikes in a cul-de-sac. A man (Seth) walks in front of the house. [End of Reel]

Anecdotal Comments & ReflectionsNotes from viewing with family (mostly Julia Raven, with some input from Mark and Dee): Sister’s kids – Rob & Rowena In Phippsburg with Eunice and her husband Robert Coombs My brother Chek w/ some clams Teedie picking corn Brother Sonny in front of the house