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Poster for Home Movies: Sport fishing off Fire Island (1925)

Home Movies: Sport fishing off Fire Island (1925)

1925 · Ephemeral film · 15 min

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Synopsis

Twelve minutes of recreational fishing sequences, on the ocean, featuring a large family in a small boat, and dozens of fish caught and hauled aboard. Then, two minutes of whales in the water. Last, just over a minute of airplane POVs of a landscape of wealth: large beach homes on a long spit of sand. (Assumed to be Fire Island.) Detail below. Man reels small fish onboard a small boat. Dozens of gulls wheel in sky above the ocean. Two men and a young woman show off lines of caught fish on the front steps of a wood-frame beach home. Man beheads fish on shore at fish processing station. Back on boat: more shots of reeling fish aboard. Fire Island Ferry visible in water beyond. Men of many ages, from senior to boy, haul fish aboard. Long series of sequences of fish being hauled aboard: salmon, flounder, sturgeon. Young woman present in some shots. Young girl -- 8 or 9 years -- holds fish aloft in triumph. Fire Island Ferry reappears. 01:32:20:00 - 01:34:03:10 Whales in water. Whales breeching. Whales blowing jets. 01:34:03:11 - tape out Airplane window POVs of residential shoreline. Beach houses on a beach. Houses on a long spit of sand, dunes, and scrub vegetation. Circa 1925–30.

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Running time
15 minutes
Collection
Prelinger Archives

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★★★★ · Dating this footage – Sept. 1930 or later · grigala1 · 2023-01-29

The boat featured with "FIRE ISLAND" on the hull is Lightship No. 114. In 1930, it was launched by the US Coast Guard from Oregon, and arrived at Fire Island on September 20, 1930. So, the footage must have been shot no earlier than that day – to help put a more accurate date to the film! :)

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