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Christmas/dentist/kids, 1934
Black and White home movie footage. 1) Very dark indoor Christmas shots (almost totally useless). 2) Fun shots of Dr. Rux working on a little girl in his office. 3) Kids playing outside. Some sprocket damage to this film.
Home Scene, 1934
Home Movie footage: Note on box: "Home Scene". Black and white home movie footage. West side of Chicago 1933 or 1934. Appears to be a family's proud document of a young man's dental practice in Chicago. WS exterior house, Chicago street scene, residential street, new 1933 or 1934 Ford pulls up in front of Dr. Rux's house 5730 W. Huron, Chicago, IL (according to the box and the number on the front of the house). Shaky camera but nice images. Man gets out of car, dog jumps around his feet as he approaches stairs of house. Camera pans street of fashionable Chicago bungalows and other buildings. Exterior of Dr. Rux's (Dentist) office sign in window of home. Family plays with dogs outside. MS small dog runs away. LS woman walks down sidewalk (filmed and/or transferred at wrong speed - way too fast). LS man goes into a different office of his (name and 'DENTIST" sign on door) Cam tilts up to 2nd floor office window advertising dentistry services. Includes awning and signage for ground floor business, "Noble Tea Store, Quality Market". Cam pans down the street. LS man Walking into "Betty's Gift Shop" large awning, tilt's up to dentist signs in 2nd floor window again, down to man walking on the sidewalk by his car. Woman steps out of Myrtle's Beauty Shop. She's in a white beautician's coat. VS shaky cam. Pans the street a couple more times, including a shoe shop, Betty's Gift shop and some good automobile traffic. Cu man, a middle aged man in glasses and cloth cap. MS two women walk out of the home on Huron, fashionably dressed in fur trimmed coat. Old-fashioned elderly couple walk out of the house - the woman in long black dress and hair in a bun, wire glasses. Stereotype. They go back in the house. Cars behind apartment building (Model A Ford, 1929 Chevrolet). A young man (Dr. Rux) poses with them. Pan to other cars. Ext LS Chicago business street. Large old unidentified buildings, cars on street. LS to CU Dr. Rux approaches the camera in a white coat.
Waikiki Beach
Diamond Head and boats
Waikiki Beach
ON preview cassette #93142 Adults & kids
Waikiki Beach
Umbrellas *** ON preview cassette #93142
Waikiki Beach
On preveiw cassette 93142 Canoe Race . Little boy buried in sand gets himself out of sand. Very small children, one boy one girl, run along beach in only their underwear.
Waikiki Beach
Squid & Sailboat ON prveiw cassette 93142
Waikiki Beach
Girls at the Beach on preview cassette 93142
Christmas, Etc., 1941
Color home movie footage. Note on can: "1941-2 Xmas/Lake". Note inside can: "1941-White Lake/Peg, Huffy/(Winter)/Puppy Tauntry/1942 Xmas Etc/Peg's Ring In addition to Christmas shots and shots of the family at some lake in winter, this reel contains shots of a woman displaying her new engagement ring. Good wartime/home front shots. Couple, marriage, wedding. 00.03.36 man hitches wagon full of leaves to car. Car drives onto o open lot and the guy dumps the leaves, two girls with him. Various shots playing in leaves with dog. This sequence looks like some serious fun with autumn leaves - the guy even pole-vaults into the pile! VS flowers in bloom. 05:55 two women swimming in the lake 06:02 poking at a snake in the grass with a stick 06:16 two women on motorboat with two dogs, they (the women) jump into the water, shots of the dogs on the boat. Dogs on the beach, playing fetch with a stick. 07:22 winter - long shot of two people walking on snowy beach (overexposed). 08:03 playing in the snow, young couple builds a snowman, dog jumps over it, guy runs into pile of snow, play with dog, throw snow. 08:31 summer again on the lake, crowd of people on pier, people on boat. Boy climbs up ladder on pier to sit on collapsible seat - he falls into the water. Series of overexposed boating shots. 10:13 VS flowers blooming in garden 10:24 dogs playing in snow, man playing with dogs, throwing stick - fetch, dogs fight over stick. Some very exuberant, playful scenes. 12:25 Christmas decorations on huge tree. man and woman take stocking down from mantle, VS opening gifts. Woman receives teapot and shows camera, opens gift, shows a glass to camera. 14:08 summer again, two girls cut down tree, MS bullfrog, 14:47 family picnic outside in park. Man setting up barbeque (shaky camera), women peeling corn cobs, putting cobs in boiling water, woman drinking water from well pump. 15:27 back to previous Christmas footage, man holds up spinning globe, he turns it around but doesn't look to happy about it. 15:41 man and woman silhouetted behind curtain. he is kneeling (down on one knee) and asks her to marry him, she nods yes and he slips a ring on her finger, they kiss. Girls plays with dog behind same silhouetted curtain. (engagement, marriage proposal, proposing) 16:09 under the tree again. 16:21 the newly engaged couple sit close on a couch, she shows off the ring in CU. out of focus shots of dogs playing, family eating formal dinner. 17:35 couple in snow, sledding, out of focus. 18:15 in focus, good sledding shots. 18:52 women sawing log
1954 - West Indies Trip - Miami
View from balcony of Sea Gull Hotel, 21st and Collins Ave, looking toward Atlantic Ocean, wind sweeping through palm trees.
On Board The BREMEN, 1934
LS bow of BREMEN with name clearly visible at New York pier. Good pan down length of this huge ocean liner. Man in snap-brim cap standing at edge of water with ticket or deck plan, the ship behind him 01:23:53 MS tourist climbing steps on board ship, other passengers are at the rail, and he takes a photo of the person doing the filming. 01:24:16 Shuffleboard game on the Sports Deck. Passengers in background at rail, and the ocean beyond. 01:24:27 passengers looking over the rail at the passing sea, pan to game of deck quits and shuffleboard 01:24:46 LS deck of ship with lifering visible, ship's name on it. Ship's officer and passengers stand about, and tilt up to show wake of ship at stern 01:25:01 ship's band playing on deck and inside promenade area 01:25:14 deck scenes, passengers i nchairs, shirtless tourist playfully messing with ship's stern telegraph and ropes, pretending to be a sailor. More scenes of this man walking the decks, getting a good shot in shuffleboard
1934 - Switzerland and Italy - Checkpoint
Adult Caucasian male guard checking identification of men and women; pan right past guard checking papers in open roof bus. Pan around area with men and women; man, by car, showing papers to a guard.
Poland & Berlin Vacation Scenes
Street in village with simple houses; Ford V-8 (the travelers' family car) in them. The cameraman, like many amateurs, is pretty wild with the pans and tilts, but there is an authenticity to the scenes, with people posed in their Sunday best in the quiet streeet of the town. 01:03:57 MS group of children posing and smiling for the camera; tilt up to man standing on pillar, removing his hat in greeting 01:04:08 MS man in suit, horse-drawn wagon behind him 01:04:22 LS goosestepping troops in Berlin (billboard says "Berlin Raucht Juno"). This is a parade or ceremony with crowd looking on 01:04:35 LS man on horse standing in front of rank of soldiers at attention; three soldiers march forward, and then an officer arrives, saluting. Dignitaries, including a Prussian (?) in high wooly hat, march past troops for the inspection. 01:05:20 good LS marching band and goosestepping leader with drum major's baton. Soldiers goosestep by 01:05:49 LS dignitaries get into car after saluting each other
Czechoslovakia, Austria and Poland
Czechoslovakia, Austria and Poland
Waikiki Beach
Boats on preview cassette 93142
Waikiki Beach
Many Canoes
Beaches
Surf ***Swirling water among rocks
Beaches
Rocks & waves
Beaches
Surf (lava shore)
Beaches
Gentle surf ***
Beaches
Gentle Surf & Rocks ***(with two houses)
Beaches
Mostly Dark Surf & mossy rocks **
1934 - Austria and Germany - Home Movies
Several pans across scene of border crossing to Austria (sign: "Zollamt"). Many shots with 1934 Ford V8 in them. Religious procession or pageant. Street scene, large crowd with horse and wagon in center, people moving slowly along; ordinary street scene with pedestrians and people pushing bicycles. Group of soldiers with swastika armbands appear to gesture to the camera to go away, but they are smiling, and we see the Nazi soldiers posed with our snap-brim tourist. More scenes follow of ordinary Germans on bicycles, walking. Mother and father pose with baby, two men pose together, one putting his arm around the other. Mother and father posing with baby, who persists in feeding father his glasses. Outside building greetings from men in white coats.
Trip to Poland
Trip to Poland Man in snap-brim cap (seen watching the BREMEN depart earlier this tape) standing between two men in top hats (possibly chimneysweeps). Ducklings swimming in quiet river; tilt up to boats and houses right at the edge of the water. Pan square in large town; trolley car, elegantly dressed men walking on street; pan ends on Jan Rux Restaurant. Small train passing in countryside; street scenes, quiet square, signs in Polish. Tourist greeting or saying farewell to relatives with kisses all around, tears from old woman. Interesting reaction from somber-faced older man in cemetery, when he realizes the camera is on him, he snaps to attention and presents a bland front; pan to gravesites planted in flowers; these are apparently new graves, mounds of earth. Men admiring view of old castle. Men and women smiling and posing for the camera