Vacation at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin - Excellent color home movie footage of family summer vacation, 1951. Scenes of croquet, swimming, sailing & water skiing.
MS teen aged boy & girl in flannel shirts & cowboy hats, boy pick up cattle skull & poses for camera. Various MSs teen aged boys & girl playing croquet.
GV two women in small sailboat while third stands on dock. GV boat sailing away from dock. GV woman standing on dock waving to camera. GV/MS elderly man (grandpa) seated on park bench, lake is seen in BG. TL sailboat & small boat w/ gas motor on the lake. GVs two young women & one young man sailing in boat. TS/GV man & woman coming to dock in small boat w/ gas motor.
GV two women seated in grass. MS three women seated in grass. GV family goofing around in convertible car, man stands up in back seat pointing a stick as if say "Charge" or "Onward", car pulls away. MS man walking toward camera smoking a pipe. MS/MCU women standing on lawn holding up all sorts of picnic / BBQ food items for the camera, bag of potato chips included, cute candid family fun.
MS two boys in early teens looking at something at bottom of docked boat, they look up at camera. GV folks conversing on boat dock, one young woman is lounging on diving board in swimsuit. GV/MS young women in sailboat coming to in to dock. Low angle MCUs blond teen aged girl in pink bathing suit, she sticks her tongue out. MS teen girl doing a clean dive off board into lake.
MS teen boy wearing red swim trunks on dock preparing foot holds of water skis. MCU two teen boys on dock, one wears a "Lake Geneva sweatshirt. LSs speedboat pulling boy on skis around lake (water skiing). Low angle MS looking at boy in water next to pier.