Sheffield home movie collection, Reel 1, Rolls 1-5 (hm-sheff_0086)

Collection:

Georgia Home and Amateur Movies

Title:

Sheffield home movie collection, Reel 1, Rolls 1-5 (hm-sheff_0086)

Creator:

Sheffield, Frank, 1900?-1994

Date of Original:

1925/1965

Subject:

Amateur films--Georgia--Americus
United States--Description and travel
Family vacations--United States
Georgia--Description and travel
Family vacations--Georgia
Automobiles
Chattahoochee River
Rivers--Georgia
Women
Flowers
Men
Dogs
Pets
Bodies of water
Children
Girls
Toddlers
Forests and forestry
Waterfalls
Dance
Boys
Tennis
Ship models
Smoking
Cats
Kittens
Boats and boating
Recreation
Airplanes
African American men
Saint Louis (Mo.)--Description and travel
Family vacations--Missouri--Saint Louis
Ducks
Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.)
Buildings--Missouri--Saint Louis
Saint Louis (Mo.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
Swimming pools
Diving
Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.)--Mascots
Bears
Parks--Missouri--Saint Louis
Forest Park (Saint Louis, Mo.)
Canoes and canoeing
Fountains
St. Louis Zoological Park
Zoo animals--Missouri--Saint Louis
Merrimack River (N.H. and Mass.)
Infants
Battle Creek Sanitarium (Battle Creek, Mich.)
Battle Creek (Mich.)--Aerial views
Squirrels
Airplanes--Parts
Glass bottom boats
Horses
Fishing
Chickens
Farmers
Swine
Pregnant women
Spanish moss
Mountains
Railroad trains
Water-wheels
Picnics
Bonfires
Beaches
Lightning
Zip lines
Docks
Hunting
Hunters
Cigarettes
Gardens
Statues
Dwellings
Floods;Runways (Aeronautics)
Air shows
Skydivers
Parachutes

Location:

United States, 39.76, -98.5
United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
United States, Georgia, Dawson County, Dawsonville, 34.42121, -84.11908
United States, Georgia, Sumter County, Americus, 32.07239, -84.23269
United States, Massachusetts, 42.36565, -71.10832
United States, Michigan, Calhoun County, Battle Creek, 42.3173, -85.17816
United States, Missouri, City of Saint Louis, St. Louis, 38.62727, -90.19789

Medium:

moving images

Type:

Moving Image

Format:

video/mp4

Description:

Test pattern. Black slug. Segment one: Car, 0:24. A man stands next to a sign: "TITLES BY" and a name that was illegible. A different man stands by a chalkboard with a drawing of a man "PHOTOGRAPHED BY HIMSELF." An old car drives down the street toward the camera. A woman stands with a bushel of flowers next to the stopped car with people in it. The woman with the flowers sits in the driver's seat and talks to the camera. Segment two: Dog, 0:47. Chalkboard: "YES SIR THATS MY BABY" with a drawing of a man pushing a dog in a baby carriage. A dog runs down a path in the woods. It stops and looks around before continuing. It stops slowly into a river, then sits on the rocks. It barks up a tree. A woman picks flowers. People stand around a small building. Segment three: Bull Sluice, 1:21. Chalkboard: "AT "BULL SLUICE" ON THE CHATTAHOOCHEE" with a drawing of Bull Sluice. A woman walks through the woods. The sluice is shown. It looks like a lake or pond. Light glints off the water. Trees rustle in the wind. Segment four: Family, 1:45. Chalkboard: "AUNT EM' AND OFFSPRINGS" with a drawing of a woman and three children behind her. Two women walk through the woods with two children, a young girl and a toddler. They stand with their mother. The younger child goes up to the dog and tries to play with it while a man holds it there. He walks with the dog up a path in the woods. A woman sits on tree roots with the dog. The man and dog walk up to a parked car and get in then drive off. A woman and man stand in the woods. Water flows over a cliff in small streams. Two women and a man walk among the rocks under the small waterfall. They walk through the woods toward the camera. The women pose against trees. They climb through the woods more. The dog stands by a rock. One women splashes water at the other. They hesitantly walk across a creek. Segment five: Amicalola Falls, 4:05. Chalkboard: "AT AMICALOLA - FALLS WITH THE CAROLS" with a drawing of two women falling down a mountain side. A boy pulls on a tree branch. A creek rambles through the woods. Water flows down lots of rocks from the top of Amicalola Falls. A group of people sit on rocks together. Mist comes up from the falls. A man helps a woman climb down a hill, but they slide instead. She slides through the leaves. The group takes off their shoes and puts their feet in the water. Segment six: Dance, 5:51. Chalkboard: "AN OLD-FASHION DANCE" with a drawing of a man dancing. A boy and man dance together on rocks in the woods. The boy keeps dancing longer than the man. The camera films the boy up close. Segment seven: Screen test, 6:25. Chalkboard: "PA'S FIRST SCREEN TEST" with drawing of a man posing in front of a camera. A man walks over to a car and gets in. He looks out the window then drives away. He looks at the camera and takes his hat off. The dog is in the back seat. He teaches the dog to jump over a stick. People in the background are playing tennis. The camera films a pond. A large group of family sit on the grass together in front of the water passing around food and eating a picnic. Two men talk to each other. Segment eight: Flagship of Henry III, 7:56. Chalkboard: "THE FLAGSHIP OF HENRY III" with a drawing of a ship. Light glints off a pond. A small toy ship floats in the water. It sails toward the right. There are two of the toy boats, with cloth sails and a wooden body. Boys stand on the side of the pond watching their boats float. There are also ducks. A boy goes out into the water with a bigger and more complex boat. Segment nine: Boyish bob, 9:21. Chalkboard: "A BOYISH BOB" with a drawing of a dog outside a beauty store. A dog runs through the grass. It is clean shaven, just after getting a haircut. Segment ten: Boy friend, 9:42. Chalkboard: "HIS BOY FRIEND" with a drawing of a man smoking. A black and white dog sits next to a wall. A person drops a kitten in front of him. He looks surprised when the kitten crawls underneath him. He walks to a new spot and the kitten moves on. Two women stand with a little girl next to a large flower bush. The girl looks at the flowers, while the women talk to each other. They are next to a pond. The girl hides behind the flowers and smiles at the camera. A woman pulls a can out of a stone doorway. She presents to drink from it. The sun shines from behind clouds. Some people are out on the water in a boat. A woman fixes her flowers in her yard. She picks some. She shows them to the camera. A woman swings on a wooden swing over the pond. Some men rough house with each other. A man carries a woman through the woods. Three people try to do a wheelbarrow race. A man gives a woman a piggy back ride. Segment eleven: Plane, 12:26. A plane takes off in a grassy field. A man climbs aboard a plane with "EAST COAST" on the side, helped by an African American man. They both climb into the plane. Black slug. Segment twelve: Trip to St. Louis, 12:53. Title screen: "A motor trip to St. Louis." Two women walk around. Two women sit in the grass and feed ducks. They jump next to a water wheel. A man and one of the women splash around in the water. Clouds are reflected in the clear water. There are ducks in the pond. The women feed the ducks from a small wooden boat. They float close to shore. A paddle wheel ferry takes their car across a river. They drive along a winding road. They picnic on the side of the road overlooking a river and fields. Segment thirteen: Washington University, 14:41. Title screen: "FIRST GLIMPSES AROUND WASHINGTON U" with trees in the background. A brick pathway is lined by trees on both sides. Tall gothic buildings. There is an archway to walk through under one of them that the brick path goes up to. Title screen: "THE WEEKLY WASH AT WASHINGTON U." Students race across a swimming pool. Students dive off low boards and high boards. Women stand in a circle clapping. A man nearby is smoking. A man in a hat laughs. Many of the people in the group are smoking. A man walks out of an arched doorway. Title screen: "WOOSIE OUR MASCOT." A woman feeds a young bear from a bottle. A man play wrestles with the bear, but another comes and feeds it with a bottle and the other men walk away. He pets the bear. A man play wrestles with Woosie. Title Screen: "SAINT LOUIS IS JUSTLY PROUD OF HER FOREST PARK, NEXT SIZE TO CENTRAL PARK." People paddle in canoes down a river in the park. There is a fountain in front of a gazebo. Screen: "Many Beautiful Fountains and Lakes Add charm to this Playground." Nozzles shoot water into the middle of a pond where there is another fountain. An outdoor stage sits below a hill of seats. Ducks swim in a lake. Rollercoasters and rides are set up at a fair. Some divers from a multiple-story high dive. On the side of the pool is painted "DEEP WATER 12 FT." Many people are in the pool. There is a swan in the pond with the fountain. The sun glows behind a cloud. Water from the fountain blows in the air. Segment fourteen: "A day in the St. Louis Zoo." A buffalo walks by a fence. A woman feeds a deer. A man stands by a fence feeding a deer. A zebra stands still. The buffalo climbs into the trough. A large hairy animal comes up to the fence. Sign: "LLAMA (Lama-glama) SOUTH AMERICAN RESPRESENTATIVE OF THE CAMELS OF THE OLD WORLD, USED AS A BEAST of BURDEN ALSO FOR WOOL and FLESH, VARIABLE IN COLOR, GENERALLY WHITE OR WHITE and BROWN OR ALMOST BLACK." A llama stands by a feeding trough. Camels lie down in a field. Sign: "AOUDAD OR BARBARY WILD SHEEP (Ovis-tragelaphus) HABITAT - THE HOT DRY MOUNTAINS OF MORTHERN AFRICA. MALES POSSESS A LONG THROAT MANE." A wild sheep lies down in the background. Sign: "DROMEDARY OR SINGLE HUMPED CAMEL (Camelus-domedarius) USED AS A BEAST of BURDEN in EGYPT, AFRICA, N. INDIA and IMPORTED for SIMILAR PURPOSES INTO AUSTRALIA. LARGE MALE IMPORTED FROM AUSTRALIA and Donated by GEO. E. W. LUEHRMANN." A camel walks around beside the fence. Sign: "RED KANGAROO (Macropus-rufus) HABITAT - SOUTH AND EASTERN AUSTRALIA. A FULL GROWN MALE WILL MEASURE OVER FIVE FEET" but the rest of the sign is too small to read. A kangaroo jumps around in the background. Sign: "EMU (Dromaeus-novaehollandia) HABITAT - AUSTRALIA. IN FORM AS ODD AS THE MAJORITY OF ANIMALS AND BIRDS FROM THAT COUNTRY. DO NOT POSSESS POWER OF FLIGHT." An emu walks around in its cage. It moves like an ostrich. There are ostriches held together with the emus. A bird comes up and pecks at fingers. Sign: "SOUTH AMERICAN TAPIR (Tapirus-terrestris) HABITAT - NORTHERN PART OF SOUTH AMERICA, WHILE THE TAPIRS IN APPEARANCE RESEMBLE THE SINE THEY BELONG TO THE SAME DIVISION OF LINGULATES AS the HORSE and RHINOCEROS." The tapir soaks in water to stay cool. A komodo dragon sits in a cage. A swan swims in a pond. Flamingoes stand by the water, as do turtles. A group of bears run around their rocky cage and sit by the water. Some stand on their hind legs. Polar bears sit on the rocks in their cage looking at the people. A bear swims in the water in its enclosure. A polar bear walks around. A bear stretches on some rocks. The various bears walk around and play. A woman overlooks a river, a train, and a lot of trees. A man stands with some women at house on some rocks. They climb down onto a rocky outcropping. A man climbs up on a rock to throw some rocks. The train comes barreling forward on the tracks below. Women walk along the train tracks. One tries to balance. Segment fifteen: Canoe trip, 25:38. Title screen: "A CANOE TRIP ON THE MERRIMAC." Groups of people in canoes paddle down a river. They have backs on the seats. There is food in the canoes. A man wiggles his foot dangling over the side at the camera. He twirls a parasol. They take turns. Two canoes float by quickly. People jump off a swinging rope into the river. There is a gathering of canoes where people are relaxing and swimming. One canoe has a sail. The other has "Cat's Meow" painted on the back. A man and woman swim in the river together. Title screen: "BEACHNUTS." The same two people are swimming and playing together in the river. Another couple joins them. People are messing around in the water. On the beach, they have large umbrellas. One woman balances across a canoe. They play around on the beach. The camera shows a baby in a basket and a little girl playing with a ball. The baby starts crying. People paddle down the river. A woman picks up the baby. Segment sixteen: Battle Creek, 28:20. Title screen: "Battle Creek and Sanitarium from the Air." The camera shows the ground below from in the air. There are spokes and pieces of an airplane. People slide down tall slides into a pool. Title screen: "Lunch Time On the Sanitarium Grounds." A man feeds a squirrel from his hand. Squirrels run around them. Screen: "The End. ENO's ART TITLES 117 PARK AV. N.Y." Black slug. Segment seventeen: The woods, 29:43. A man stands on a hill across a pond surrounded by trees. People float by in a canoe. The sun set on the horizon over a pond. A woman walks through the woods followed by other men and women. A man rows a canoe. Fish can be seen through the clear water, plants, too. They have a glass bottom boat. The group climbs out of the glass bottom boat back onto shore. A man rides through the woods on a horse. A group of adults and a boy stand eating on the shore. A boy paddles a canoe with a woman and a dog behind him. A man is fishing on the water. He caught a fish that fights him. He floats along toward the shore. There is a fallen tree in the water. He continues floating along. A dog runs through a field. It stops and walks slowly. A man walks along beside the dog. Segment eighteen: Industry, 33:01. Cars and vehicles drive through a crowded industrial area. Men stand around working. There is a group of men outside of a farm area with a large number of pigs fenced in. A man pulls the pigs out of a cart into the area. A man smiles and talks to the camera. A man with a bucket throws feed at least a hundred chickens kept in a pen together. Segment nineteen: Recreation, 34:48. A woman sitting on a boat fills a bottle with water coming down a hill to the water. She pours it out. The river is shown. She sits on a beach building something out of sand with the canoe pulled up next to her, then she climbs into the water and swims with the dog. A man sits on the shore with the dog. The dog jumps over a stick in her hand. She climbs out of the water. She runs along the shore into the water. A pregnant woman in a dress walks along a hill by the water. She dips her feet in the water. She smiles for the camera and dances with a man. They climb down by a waterfall and he helps her back up. The dog jumps over a stick again. A couple sits with the dog in the sand. Two women sit in a tree and try to get a man to join them. A woman talks to the camera. Segment twenty: Boat, 37:27. Men stand on a ship holding on to a sail. The camera shows many of them up close. They are wearing hats to protect from the sun. It shows the cabin area. There is another large ship near them. Some of the men sit on the side of the boat trying to fish. A woman walks around on the beach picking flowers from a tree and putting them behind her ear. There are houses near the water and pine trees. Three people stand together under the Spanish moss. Most of the trees in the boggy area have Spanish moss. Waves crash on the sand. Segment twenty-one: Mountains, 39:04. There are mountains all the way along the horizon, but they are hard to see because of the fog or clouds. Down below there is a waterfall. A road winds through the mountains with cars on it. The family walks along the road and looks out at the mountains and the river. Water is flowing. A man thinks. A car drives by them. A train goes by on train tracks. The men climb along a hill to a ladder. The group sits and stands. Water flows onto a water wheel. The men and a boy walk around it to take a look. A car drives around a corner. Black slug. Segment twenty-two: Outdoors, 41:15. Some women and men sit around a table set up with a picnic. A stream flows nearby. On a beach area of a river, a few women eat a picnic together. A group of people walk together alongside a river. A man points out something in the distance. A woman works on a project with her hands. Some women climb up on top of a giant wheel. One falls off. A couple of women sit on a dock by the river. Some of the groups go out into the water by a rope and do tricks hanging onto the rope. They let go and swim down the river. Two women and a man skip down a sandy path. A woman swings on a rope into the river. Women and men warm themselves by a fire. Segment twenty-three: The beach, 43:58. A man drives some of the group to the beach. A car drives on the beach. It drags a trailer with a canoe in it and a dog sitting in the canoe. They get out at the beach and run into the water with the dog. The three people sit in the water and call the dog to them. Two of them splash each other before they're all knocked over by a wave. They sit in the water and play with the dog. Two men take the canoe out into the waves. One tries to steer it over them. Two women are out fishing. One caught a small fish. They pose with the fish and one of the men. A woman sits on the truck and keeps looking at the camera. There is a pier and lifeguard station further down. Cars are driving everywhere on the beach. Lots of people are playing in the ocean. Two African America men box in the sand with a ring of African American men around them watching. A woman in a coat walks down a walkway under some trees past the dog. Marshes are shown. The dog looks down the walkway, which then empties. There are abandoned buildings near the walkway. The empty walkway with Spanish moss is shown again. There is an abandoned brick building. A woman walks around outside of it and into it. The dog follows. The dog stands in the water with the canoe attached to a dock. The dog sits outside a house with a hat on. A man picks it up by its front legs into a stand, which it seems confused about. A woman joins him. There are more people and another dog walking around. As they drive along the beach, there is a storm with heat lightning right next to them. A person glides down a zipline into the water of a pond. There are other people swimming around. Segment twenty-four: Child, 48:41. A little girl walks down a dirt path with a parasol and angel wings. She stands on a dock. A man jumps off the diving board on a dock into the water. He sits in a tube and his dog joins him. They jump off again and relax in the water. Segment twenty-five: Hunting, 49:42. A dead deer is hanging from a platform by its hind legs. The camera shows its head up close. Men walk around in hunting outfits with guns. Two shake hands in front of a giant bear skin. Many different men pose with and hold up the bear skin. Segment twenty-six: Fun, 51:09. The dog sits in the back of a car. Two women are in the front of the car. They smile at the camera. The two women act like they are going to climb into an airplane with an advertisement for "Old Gold Cigarettes" on the side. A man stands next to a box of cigarettes painted by the tail of the plane. Two women walk up from a garden with statues in it. A large house with a front porch is shown. A man in a suit walks along a sandy path. Two women walk in the grass toward a flower patch. A car drives through a flooded street. An industrial area is completely covered in water. Another car drives through the water. The river is up among the trees and covering everything. Two dogs play with each other. Black slug. Segment twenty-seven: Airplane, 53:18. An airplane flies through the air and comes to land, but passes by the runway instead. It eventually lands in a field. A family climbs out of it, a young boy first. He seems surprised by the camera. The group poses beside the airplane. The camera shows them all close up. The boy and his father mess with each other. A man talks to the camera. A man in a suit talks to the camera. The airplane takes off as a crowd watches. People are helped out of the airplane, mostly women. The city is shown from an airplane up above. The smoke from a train on train tracks can be seen. A man tries to start the propeller of a plane. He succeeds eventually and the plane takes off. It flies over a water tower. The plane comes back in to land. The camera is in the plane showing a take-off. They fly over buildings and roads. There are many grassy fields. Another airplane is in the sky with them. A couple of airplanes fly in the sky doing tricks. The planes fly together. A person drops in a parachute. The remaining plane still flies. Black slug.

Local Identifier:

hm-sheff_0086.mp4

External Identifiers:

Metadata URL:

https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:ugabma_bmahm_hm-sheff-0086

Digital Object URL:

https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:ugabma_bmahm_hm-sheff-0086

Language:

eng

Extent:

1 video file (mp4) (60 min., 40 sec.) : si., b&w

Original Collection:

Frank Sheffield home movie collection, 1925-1965

Holding Institution:

Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection

Rights: