Synopsis
Silent black-and-white home movies: 1930s cars on residential streets, family gatherings, boating and swimming on lakes and rivers, rural scenes and Niagara Falls.
Synopsis, reviewed
Details
- Running time
- 23 minutes
- Collection
- Prelinger Archives
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- home movies
- black and white
- silent
- Canada
- lake
- family
- children
- steam train
- farm life
- rowboat
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★ · Depression? What Depression · Dodsworth the Cat · 2022-07-05
A family piles into their 1933 Ford Sedan (with no other cars on their street) for a little trip. Cut to a fine-looking steam locomotive approaching the station. Is everything abandoned? There are shots of an empty farm and a vacant schoolhouse. There's a nice exterior shot of a general store that sells Salada Tea. Several scenes feature a lake, one with a ferry on it. Look! Daddy and uncle somebody caught some frogs. The lakeside cottage has a tree in the middle of the steps. Dad's smoking a cigarette wading in the lake. Back we go to town. There's a nice convertible with the top up and a…
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