Home Movies: Massachusetts Catholic family (1956)
1956 · Ephemeral film · 13 min
Synopsis
Family lives in Revere or Milton, Massachusetts Girl and boy, ages 8 - 10 or so, ride in scale model railroad car.Girl and boy turn and smile at photographer who is seated behind them.Family rides model railroad cars together.Dad and boy play together in the water at a lake.Entire family in swim suits plays together at lake shore.03:11:01:03Two kids play together at home on front lawn in swim suits. Hot sunny day. Family rides on "Little dipper" roller coaster.And another ride.03:12:10:09Family back at lake shore. Kids look a couple of years older than a few minutes ago. Everyone plays in the water.03:12:35:23Waterfall. No visual context.03:13:13:18Kids approach camera and pose wearing western style summer vacation clothes. IFO stone wall. Family emerges from stone doorway, Having been on a tour or something. 03:13:38Niagara Falls03:15:11:22front of model train looking down railroad tracks to a small house in the woods.Back to Niagara Falls.03:16:02:27Halloween sequence. Kids dressed up as Swiss milk maids with fake blonde braids. 03:16:37:10POV of statue of virgin Mary Sign above church doors: "The Glory of the Madonna in the Marian Year"03:17:00:25Family picnic Young girl, now 12 or 13, sells beverage at small sidewalk stand labeled "Ice Cold Tonic 10c"03:17:17:12Parade Sequence:American Legion, Revere Mass.Milton Grenadiers many majorette corps.03:19:49:06Catholic Easter and/or Confirmation ceremony sequence:Children in all-white formals, girls in veils, walking into…
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- Running time
- 13 minutes
- Collection
- Prelinger Archives
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★★★★ · ITS THE CATHOLICS! · Spuzz · 2015-12-29
At first, I was like, "WHERE'S THE CATHOLISM?" as we watch a family in a (great) amusement park, at the beach, splashing water on themselves, in the back yard, doing the same thing (sis has a great under hook lol) I was like, wow, THEY'RE JUST LIKE US! Ahhh, but have faith ephemeral film viewer, for the final quarter is dedicated to a GREAT confirmation sequence. Plenty of girls and boys dressed in white walking up and down the street. This film has excellent color.