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Algae Microphotography
CU of Algae, magnified under a microscope. a water plant with no true stems or leaves. Tiny black hairs on clear fluid background, amorphous shape of algae plant, small organisms dart around it - like water flies. Another shot of Algae - it's moving, shifting it's shape. Nice microphotography.
Hollywood Half Hour - Dream Job - PT1
Hollywood Half Hour - Dream Job - PT1: starring Vincent Price and Joan Leslie. Vincent Price cataloged as Mr. Cooper Fielding, Joan Leslie as Ada Jordan.
Hollywood Half Hour - Dream Job - PT2
Hollywood Half Hour - Dream Job - PT2: starring Vincent Price and Joan Leslie. Vincent Price cataloged as Mr. Cooper Fielding, Joan Leslie as Ada Jordan.
Public Defender - PT1
Public Defender - PT1: Starring Reed Hadley as Bart Matthews. Kenneth Tobey as Police Sergeant. Charles Bronson as Nobby Bullaid.
Revlon Commercial With Mike Wallace
Revlon Commercial With Mike Wallace
Public Defender - PT2
Public Defender - PT2: Starring Reed Hadley as Bart Matthews. Kenneth Tobey as Police Sergeant. Charles Bronson as boxer Nobby Bullaid.
Public Defender - PT3
Public Defender - PT3: Starring Reed Hadley as Bart Matthews. Kenneth Tobey as Police Sergeant. Charles Bronson as boxer Nobby Bullaid.
Public Defender - PT4
Public Defender - PT4: Starring Reed Hadley as Bart Matthews. Kenneth Tobey as Police Sergeant. Charles Bronson as boxer Nobby Bullaid.
Howdy Doody Part 2
(cont.) Buffalo Bob with monkey. Footage from Lowell Thomas Jr.'s airplane trip around the world. Buffalo Bob with Howdy Doody. Story Princess on clouds with castle in background. She tells story about a boy named "Jigsaw Puzzle". Heidi, a puppet with a bow and arrow. A grouchy old man puppet sings. CU Howdy Doody.
Art Linkletter And The Kids
Opening credit. Pan of audience. Art Linkletter sets ground rules, says he never tells kids what or what not to say. AL enters playroom with four children. At 01:35:13:00 a young boy says a politician is "something flat like an alligator". part at end where girl pins fabric (as if to make a dress) on boy- kind of like a boy in drag.
Art Linkletter And The Kids
Opening credits. A Programs for Television Inc. Presentation. Title card, two female and two male Caucasian children superimposed around texted title with picture of host Art Linkletter in middle.
"The End" Title Cards
"The End" Title Cards
Gossip
Gossip: The story of how gossip ruined a nice teenage girl's reputation. When she doesn't do what her date wants her to, he spreads rumors about her that turn her into a social outcast. Good shots of 1950s teens dating (drive-in, etc.), hanging out around school, etc.
Home Safe Home
Version on Master #195 cuts off the end. Nice little film by the National Safety Council, late 1940s/early 1950s. Opens with nice shots of downtown Evanston, Illinois. Then shots of happy family life: paperboy delivers paper, kids read funnies. Wife cooks breakfast, husband shaves. Explains the dangers people face in their own homes. Man nails quarantine signs to a door. one for scarlet fever, and for polio. Also gives hints regarding how to avoid falling and kitchen hazards. Family eats breakfast together, housewife cleans. Milkman falls (fall is not seen, just him at the bottom of the stoop), Dad almost falls off a ladder. Kid falls on slippery rug. Dad and son clean basement.
Odd Lots And Service
Early 1960s industrial/educational film about investing on Wall Street. In essence, everything you ever wanted to know about investing, stock exchange, brokerage firms, etc.
Drive-in Intermission Trailers
Great 1960s (or so) drive-in movie theatre advertisements for the snack bar, etc.
Williamsburg, VA, 1946 - Roll
On preview cassette # 991415A - Color and contrast can be adjusted during mastering. Note on box: "Williamsburg, 1946. Bob Peckham's 11th birthday. Garden, 1947." Vacation, home movie. Garden shots with flowers, birthday party with kids (children) eating, nice shots of kids with food, one shot with young boy eating piece of chocolate cake, boy next to him (out of frame?) puts napkin (looks lace like) on his head and he quickly removes it. Funny. Cute.
Williamsburg, VA, 1946
Note on box: "Williamsburg trip in 1946. Connie and Jim. Few shots of the Peckhams...Vacation, Virginia. CU roses, LS pan of vast rose gardens outside Thomas Jefferson's Monticello home.. Pan across exterior of Jefferson home. Pan around gardens. MS gorge - shaky pans. VS around Willimasburg, historic buildings. Lots of wide panshots. Horse and buggy ride towardsnad past cam. Sign "Willimasburg Inn". Wide pan shots of the area. MS Jim MS two kids horsing aroundin the stocks. LS Connie (?) in front of historic building.
Florida, 1948
Note on box: "Florida boat scene. The Roberts - Peckhams (Connie). Garden. Scarsdale. 1948-49. Short shot of Jim, Jr. and Grandfather Nessler..."
New England, 1940s
Note on box: "Trip to Boston-New England. Poor color. No people. Vacation." Camera pans around church interior. Exterior white church with columns, tilt up to steeple with clock, spire. MS sign: "1683 Longfellows Wayside Inn". Pan across garden, white picket fence up to house. MS sign: "Home of Paul Revere 1770-1800". Pan over to door. Old wood house with American flag hanging from it. VS ship deck, ext of ship at dock. VS street, harbor with lobster cages, boats. WS pan river to huge mansion, to other buildings in distance, bridges. TLS buildings, pan.
Home Movie of Family
Note on box: "Short scene of Aunt Myrtle, Connie, Bob and Jim and Grandmother? but only 30 seconds..." Shot of a group of women, kids and grandmother in front of an old stone house.
1930s Factory (Home Movie)
Home movie footage (with a continuous obstruction in the frame) of some sort of manufacturing plant, LS of 4 men standing in front of plant. MS one of the men posing as if for a still photograph. Slow pan of building. Long take MS of 4 men standing in front of the plant, smoking cigarettes. . early 1930s. Note on can: "Plant-Bessemer's? In Chicago? Jim Sr. outside. Lots of blank film. Object in front of camera in all shots."
1948 Trip to Canada - Peckhams
Shot of two boys (about 13 and 16 or thereabouts, respectively) sitting in front of small waterfall, pretending to beat up on each other but it's pretty forced so they just sit and smile at the camera. Shot of waterfall and the river it flows into. Wider shot of water falling over rocks. Various shots of waterflow over rocks. 10:44 POV from cable car high up in a mountainous area on its way down. Mountains in bg, cables and cable towers in fg as the camera tilts down to the view FAR below. Another cable car on it's way up passes with people looking out of open windows. 11:16 shots from ground looking up steep mountain, panning landscape. 11:28 nice shot of rainbow, camera follows the curve of it agains an ominous gray sky (at least until the tree block the view). Another closer shot of same, golden glow can be seen inside rainbow (cool!) and the color are intense. 11:43 family sitting in horse-drawn carriage, then shots of the family (the two boys again as seen at the beginning of the reel) on the grounds of the Kent House. Lots of flowers. Pan of grounds. 12:10 Shot of sheer, high waterfall on rock face. two boys walking along the shore near to where the waterfall spills into the pool below. Nice CU Boys and mother sit together near water with waterfall in bg. Same shot but with Dad instead of eldest boy. 13:24 MS of boys paddling a canoe.
1941 Homebuilding
ON PREVIEW CASSETTE 97559 III Note on reel: "Sept '41, Blasting the foundation". Construction of a house? [Doesn't look like it. Two young boys near an old mill with water-propelled wheel.]