Home Movies: Happy Birthday to Doris (1935)
1935 · Ephemeral film · 17 min
Synopsis
Starting title: "Happy Birthday to Doris, 1935"; good shots of wedding; couple departing; wedding; title "Mr. and Mrs. is the name...July 12, 1935"; family at Christmastime, good quality CUs (1935); pans over unfinished San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge; bridge with San Francisco skyline behind it; Bay Bridge with chunk of roadway not yet installed; Fishermans' Wharf; Golden Gate Bridge; lighthouse just east of Point Lobos off northern part of San Francisco (Mile Rocks?); Golden Gate Bridge in unfinished state, no roadway
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- Running time
- 17 minutes
- Collection
- Prelinger Archives
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★ · Yes! Happy Birthday! · Spuzz · 2013-01-03
Lovely little home home movie, but rather suspicious.. but I'm getting ahead of myself. We start out, yes, with Doris, pretty little girl, amongst the garden, she seems to have a Mom and a Dad, and no other siblings. There's lots shots of her sniffing flowers (and Dad gets in the act as well). After this, the film shifts to a lurvy durvy couple, and they frolic in a garden as well (and eventually get married). For a moment there, I thought the film flashed forward in time 15 years or so, the two girls look awfully similar (and don't appear in any scenes together) Also, the scenes with the…