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1930 · Ephemeral film · 9 min

Synopsis

Middle-aged man in 1930s attire, wearing cap and smoking a pipe sit on bench, dog seated next to him; cabins mountain and forest behind man. 1930 style car at Socony gas station. Two 1930s boys playing horseshoes; two young women playing horse shoes, woods in background; great shot of team of boys and girls each throwing horse shoe toward camera at ring. Pan over lake, boy in canoe paddles past camera. on canoe, boy paddling. Footage of campers tents pitched in woods along lake. Great shot from motor boat passing beneath low bridge. angry black dog barking and growling. Great shot older woman in round 1930s black framed glasses wearing black hat with white ribbon, younger woman in white hat and man wearing white cap behind the two women steering the motor boat across the lake; water splashes up from the motor behind them, swells lead out from the moving boat.

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Running time
9 minutes
Collection
Prelinger Archives