Summary

HOME MOVIES

Source Archive Films by Getty Images
Title: HOME MOVIES
File Number: BNBA-1 Beta SP
Color: B W, Color
Type: Home Movie
Year: 1930s, 1940s
Subjects: New York City
Description: 1940s New Hampshire, Center Harbor girls camp. Girls dancing and frolicking, swimming Central School (Long Beach, New York). Elementary School Band. Kids with American flags. Children playing outside. Children on city streets. Red Cross March. Outdoor activities - swimming, rowing boat, playing in snow, sled, ice skating, boys wear uniforms. 01:26:05:00 Young boy makes Nazi 'Heil Hitler!' salute and puts finger over top lip to imitate Hitler. Two boys then make Heil Hitler gestures and Hitler imitiation. Boys with guns (they look kind of real). 01:26:40 Playing in snow, snowballs, boy sits on dog, roller skating, swimming pool, dragging sleds, riding on sleds VS Family visit to Washington DC, springtime (?) - all usual landmarks (Mount Vernon, etc.). Temporary WWII structures seen with Jefferson Memorial and Capitol dome in the distance. Cherry blossoms. White House. Washington Monument... 1937 3-year old girl's birthday party. 01:32:34:02 January 1938 Bensonhurst, New York, with family. Street scenes, tricycle, lots of posing. Some B&W material. Bigger boy on bicycle. Girl with one roller skate. Perambulators, trolleys. INT kid and adults playacting. 01:36:33:03 Lakewood, NJ, 1938. Horses and carriage carries passengers, POV from drivers seat. Rokcing chair. Horse riding, girl on pony. 01:38:25:09 Spring, April 1938. VS little girl running around street, white dog in window. Barnum and Bailey's Circus - VS, color and B&W, speeded up - lots of animal tricks, trapeze, acrobats etc. 01:40:53:07 Prospect Park Zoo, Brooklyn, May 1938. B&W. VS caged animals etc. Girl on pony, seal, polar bear, girl eating from box.. Color - people and kids in park on sunny day. Swimming in lake, camp (?). Boys play softball, race in lake.
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