[Summer recreation, 1975--Nathaniel Champlin--home movies.] Reel 2

Date1975

Can Descriptions: Summer 1975 – Sue arrives / muffin at flats, Sue leaves, Betty & Rod, Camp, Saul & Mary’s camp & jugs, Maia brings boat in to Flats., Horowitz & Champlins at Flats, Andrea upon skis, Maia & Josh dive at Long Point, Andrea drives jeep, Mildred waves |

Viewing Notes: Airplane lands on runway, girl wearing glasses, Champlin family on runway in front of baggage claim sign, man in Provincetown-Boston airport shirt in front of plane, plane says “Naples Airlines & Provincetown-Boston”, people disembark from plane, woman in glasses greets family, boy runs to yellow jeep and climbs in, family packs jeep, driving along the dunes, family playing with cat on beach, cat attacking feathers on beach, car drives into parking lot, Sue gets out, Mildred in driver’s seat, children walk with Sue and help carry suitcases, plane landing, children watching plane, people line up to get on plane, Maia watches, Sue waves goodbye, Andrea, propeller starts, Sue getting on plane, plane takes off, children in boat, yellow motorboat, large suspension bridge in Newport, Rhode Island, tall ships in harbor, ship, rowboats in water, two people in a rowboat – pan out to empty rowboats, pan of sailboats and tall ships in the harbor, seagull perched on dock – pan out, shot of camper at campground, man walks to station wagon, children sit at picnic table, man smokes pipe, Mildred outside camper, woman and man look at large porcelain jugs, family looks out windows from inside camper, Maia brings speedboat into the shore, girl jumps out, two women paddling on raft, girls lying on beach, boy playing in the water, woman in snorkeling gear, woman sitting on the beach, boy playing in water, two girls sit in speedboat on the sand, two people carry raft in to shore from water, girl on beach, two children paddle raft, lighthouse in background, boy plays with driftwood, plane flies overhead, girl reading on beach, seagulls on beach, family sitting on beach eating/ having a picnic, two children playing in distance – zoom in, three children playing – pan of beach – person floating in raft, family sitting on beach – ocean in background, zoom in to person waterskiing, person falls off water skis, woman runs into ocean, boat circles back around, person gets back up on water skis and then falls down again, girl waterskiing, person in scuba diving gear, pan out – two divers, children come down stairs from shack and get into yellow jeep, Andrea in driver’s seat, Mission Bell dune shack, Andrea drives jeep along dunes, arrives back at house, Mildred waves from the porch – holding cat, children wave back, cat hanging off log next to Paul [end of reel].

Abstract: This reel includes a visit from a family member to the Cape Cod National Seashore, a family camping trip, and summer recreation on the beach in Provincetown and in Newport, Rhode Island such as boating, water skiing, and scuba diving. The last scenes include footage of the Mission Bell dune shack and Andrea Champlin driving the family jeep.