[Summer recreation, Blessing of the Fleet, circa 1972--Nathaniel Champlin--home movies.] Reel 1

2939.0001
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circa 1972
: aerial; Fords at Flats, Maia & Gang; Marine Specialties; Andrea & Paul at airport, plane comes in, Finch, Sue & Mildred, Maia, Guard, take off, aerial of dunes, ocean & our house, aerial of our house, great landing, Long Point, Fords n’ us at Flats, Paul, floats in run, Mildred et al, Nat & Jim, jeep load Fords, old reliable fish house sign, Maia run, to sail boat, Brad watches, Mildred, Maia & Brad, Helen, Blessing of the Fleet, flags, boat, rigging, coast guard, circles, Boston boat commission statue comes along above crowd, boats getting blessed, with priests & Bishop |
: Andrea and Paul watch yellow sightseeing plane on airport runway, man in glasses, Sue and Mildred observe, Maia, everyone gets aboard plane, propeller, plane on runway, Mildred, plane takes off, aerial shot of dunes, plane in the air, aerials of ocean, dunes and house, shot of plane in the air, shot of plane in sky above mission bell and American flag, plane landing, people sitting on benches outside of building, plane on runway, people disembark, children run towards camera, couple walking together, lighthouse, children on beach, boy hits wooden plank against the sand, children playing on rafts in the water, adults on beach watching, boy on beach in pink towel, boy playing with wooden plank in the water, boy pulling raft in the water, woman who takes off sunglasses, man and woman talking on beach, children paddling/floating on rafts, boy in water with yellow plank, boy sitting on pink towel on sand drinking from cup, adults picnic on beach, children play in water, man with camera taking photographs, children on floats in water, boy walking on beach in a green blanket, Mildred walking along beach, Mildred smiling, woman brings raft into the water, boy laying on a towel on the beach, people on rafts in background, two men talking, building sandcastle, load of people driving in jeep, “Old Reliable Fish House Seafood Restaurant” sign, “Learn to Sail” sign, Maia runs to sailboat, Maia climbs into sailboat and Brad pushes boat into water, “Provincetown School of Sailing” on side of boat, Maia sailing, row boat on the beach, Brad gets in motorboat, man talking and laughing, Brad driving motorboat, man with oars talking to Mildred, pan of shoreline from boat, sailboat and motorboat, woman, scenes from "Blessing of the Fleet" - people on docks, tall ships with colorful flags, man tying flags to ship, crowds watching, pouring milk, man eating, many ships with flags in Harbor, “Provincetown” on side of large ship, religious statue brought through crowd with dollar signs on cloak, people disembark from ship, man standing on mast, man pulling rope out of water, coast guard ship, people on boats, man dressed like Pilgrim ringing bell, statue on boat, Bishop blessing ships [end of reel].
: This reel includes aerial footage of the Cape Cod National Seashore, summer recreation on the beach in Provincetown, and the "Blessing of the Fleet" which was a tradition of the fishing community.

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