Sheffield home movie collection, Reel 10, Rolls 7-9 (hm-sheff_0116)

Collection:: Georgia Home and Amateur Movies
Title:: Sheffield home movie collection, Reel 10, Rolls 7-9 (hm-sheff_0116)
Creator:: Sheffield, Frank, 1900?-1994
Date of Original:: 1925/1965
Subject:: Amateur films--Georgia--Americus
United States--Description and travel
Family vacations--United States
Anne Arundel County (Md.)--Description and travel
Family vacations--Maryland--Anne Arundel County
Mobile (Ala.)--Description and travel
Family vacations--Alabama--Mobile
Biloxi (Miss.)--Description and travel
Family vacations--Mississippi--Biloxi
New Orleans (La.)--Description and travel
Family vacations--Louisiana--New Orleans
British Virgin Islands--Description and travel
Family vacations--British Virgin Islands
Boats and boating
Hotels--Maryland--Anne Arundel County
Domes
Uniforms
Statues
Stained glass windows
Boys
Girls
Men
Women
Ordnance
Docks
Dogs
Pets
Horses
Dwellings
Castles
Bubbles
Bodies of water
Picnics
Bridges--Alabama--Mobile
Cows
Marshes
African American men
Tunnels--Alabama--Mobile
Signs and signboards
Smoke
Oil well drilling rigs
Forests and forestry
Spanish moss
African American women
Flowers
Beauvoir (Biloxi, Miss.)
Plantations--Mississippi--Biloxi
Hotels
Squirrels
Swimming pools
Swimming
Fort Pike (La.)
Steamboats
Automobiles
Fences
Cathedrals--Louisiana--New Orleans
Vieux Carré (New Orleans, La.)
New Orleans (La.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
Sun--Rising and setting
Tourists
Plantations--Louisiana--New Orleans
Beaches
Cabanas
Dinners and dining
Neon signs
Flags--United States
Marinas
Cities and towns
Airplanes
Eastern Air Lines
Coasts
Donkeys
Mountains
Rivers
Cobblestones
Church buildings
Cemeteries
Squatter settlements
Goats
Storefronts
Banks and banking
Farm produce
Coca Cola (Trademark)
Abandoned buildings
Awnings
Tower clocks
Living rooms
Dolls
Coconut
Lizards
Pan American World Airways, Inc.
Clouds
Location:: British Virgin Islands, 18.5, -64.5
United States, 39.76, -98.5
United States, Alabama, Mobile County, Mobile, 30.69436, -88.04305
United States, Georgia, Sumter County, Americus, 32.07239, -84.23269
United States, Louisiana, Orleans Parish, New Orleans, 29.95465, -90.07507
United States, Maryland, Anne Arundel County, 38.99416, -76.5676
United States, Mississippi, Harrison County, Biloxi, 30.39603, -88.88531
Medium:: moving images
Type:: Moving Image
Format:: video/mp4
Description:: Black slug. Segment one: Vacation in Anne Arundel County Maryland, 0:03. A road leading to the water. Sailboats float in a clump in a harbor. Sign: "Gibson Island PRIVATE PROPERTY." A road along the water leading to the island. The sun sets over the sailboats in the harbor. The sun sets over the water on the horizon. A family stands on a bridge overlooking houses. A road leads to the mainland. There is a factory on the other side of the water. A brick house with shite steps leading up to a front porch. A large white building, like a hotel. A grassy quad in between houses. Two girls approach a brick house. A building with trees in front of it and a dome on top. The family walks with a man in a sailor uniform. The white marble building is covered in granite. A statue of the top half of a man with a quiver of arrows. Stained glass window depicting a religious scene. Soldiers gather outside of a white domed building. A boy sits on an old cannon outside the building. A bust sits across the street from the white domed building. A sailor sits with two girls and a boy on the bench of a memorial with cannons attached. People walk in a grassy field. A large group gathers on a dock, some in elaborate costumes. They costumed people pose. After they are done, groups of people walk off as others talk. Two clowns get in a blue sailboat together. People are riding in small sailboats together out in the water. One tipped over. People sit with children on the dock and watch the small sailboats. A row boat of children slowly rows into the water. Some of the boats come back to the dock. A boy and a girl sit on a sailboat. Their father controls it from the back. A man walks outside and pets and plays with a dog. A white building sits behind trees. A woman pets a horse. The dog overlooks the water with its tongue sticking out. The children play and pet a small horse. A small girl leans over the large dog like it is a small horse. Some women and a child stand outside of a large white house with a craftsman style doorway. A young girl smiles as she walks with the dog. An older girl pets him. Wind rustles the trees outside a window. Four women walk together. A grey house sits among the trees. The water can be seen from the yard. A white house like a castle has people standing outside of it. Children blow bubbles in the yard. A boy blows bubbles in a pipe. A boy and girl stand beside the dog. It is barely shorter than them. A large man plays with the dog with a stick. A woman and the children sit in lawn chairs by the water to read a book. A woman walks with the children across a street. A group of men dressed in old military uniforms form a band. The drum has "FOUNDED 1831" painted on it. The family walks toward a field where others are gathered. There are small favors for people. Some people sit at the table with the painted favors. Another group eats at a picnic table together. A man looks after a couple of horses. Black slug. Segment two: Trip to Mobile Alabama, 13:05. White sand rolls into bright blue water at the beach. There is a ship in the distance on the horizon. Cows roam the beach. A small boat floats near the shore. A car drives over a bridge to the beach. On the bridge overlooking the water and land. Cars drive down a road with marshes in view. An African American man works on the side of the road in front of a sign: "BANKHEAD TUNNEL UNDER MOBILE RIVER SAVE TIRES SAVE GAS SAVE MILEAGE." A city can be seen in the distance. There is a lot of smoke from a fire. There are oil rigs. A path through the woods. Spanish moss hangs off of trees. A fountain in a pond beneath the Spanish moss. A fountain made from a statue of a woman in a pond. More trees full of Spanish moss. Yellow flowers. Water flows from a bowl down a handmade waterfall. An African American woman stands on a dock overlooking the water. Flowers lead up to a building with wrought iron fencing on the balcony. A stone house sits among the trees. A pond breaks the trees up. There is a gazebo. A field in the middle of the trees. An orange flower. A driveway. A pink flower sits among the lily pads in the pond. White ones as well. A manicured garden. A large white home with a front porch. A brick house with outside stairs leading to the porch. A sunset on the water turns the sky purple and pink. Segment three: Trip to Biloxi Mississippi, 17:11. Sign: "Jefferson DAVIS SHRINE BEAUVOIR HOUSE OPEN TO PUBLIC." Beauvoir House. Up close, it has stairs leading up to the front porch and columns on it. Sign: "EDGEWATER GULF HOTEL." The hotel is behind the sign and it is a tall white building with black windows. People sit in a field. Squirrels run across the grass. People sit around a swimming pool at the hotel as some people swim. A white house with wrought iron leading up the stairs on the sides. Waves crash in the ocean. Segment four: Trip to New Orleans, 18:24. Sign: "BOOKLETS AT OFFICE WELCOME FORT PIKE STATE PARK COMM." A fort on the water. People walk across a wooden drawbridge to enter the fort. The bricks are crumbling and being overgrown by grass and weeks. People walk along the top of the fort. There is a bridge in the background. A woman walks alone down a ramp. A boat sails in the brown water of a river. There are ports and ships on the far side. A steamboat called "CAPITOL" sits in the water. Cars sit on the sides of a road next to buildings with wrought iron fencing. The camera pans up the St. Louis Cathedral in New Orleans. Streets in the French Quarter. A French style building. The Cathedral is shown from the front. A street corner. Sign: "Buy U.S. WAR BONDS." Sign: "KRESS." Sign: "ORPHEUM." The sun sets across a river. Sign: "DELUXE SIGHTSEEING TOURS." Sign: "Relax With JAX Best Beer in Town." People walk down a street. Many of the buildings are made of stone. There is a lot of wrought iron fence decoration. People sit at tables with tablecloths under trees in a courtyard. A large white house with columns. The land abruptly drops off into a river. The white house with columns looks dilapidated. A white gazebo in a field. A large white house with a statue where the front door usually is. Small white fencing in front of it. A white building with a domed roof. Trolley tracks go down the street. A bust outside of a white building. A clock tower on top of a building. A domed roof. People and a dog stand by the water. The dog is in the back of a truck. Two girls play with the dog on the beach. They play with the foam that the waves leave. One girl takes of running and the dog follows a little. A boy wades alone in the water. The mother picks up the shoes that the children leave behind before running down to the water. Family members walk on the beach together. The little boy runs. A group walks down to the beach and set up under a thatched roof cabana. Other people enjoy the beach and the waves. The foam is shown up close. There are houses and trees just off the sand. A black dog walks on the beach near the waves. Children play in the water. Some of their parents join them in the water. A boy shows a lizard he caught to the camera. People laugh between two houses. They sit at tables to eat. Two girls float on a tube. Women and men sit in chairs. There are chairs surrounding a pool where children swim. A man works with a girl to teach her strokes and how to swim properly. Other girls are also being taught proper strokes for swimming, while the boys just play around. A fort sits beside some trees. The walls are made of stone. An American flag flies over the fort. Girls walk across the bridge out of the fort together. Black slug. Segment five: Travel on the coast, 30:26. From above the trees, the camera films the sailboats in the marina. There is a long bridge crossing the water in the distance. At night, there are some lights floating around, but it is too dark to see much. Cars drive by. Neon sign: "CALVERT." Neon sign: "SCHENLEY." Neon sign: "OLD FORRESTER." Neon sign: "THREE FEATHERS." Neon sign: "America's Guest Whisky OLD FORRESTER." Neon sign: "FIRST AMONG FINE WHISKIES THREE FEATHERS." A Gulf Oil Products truck sits in front of a plane. A plane with "The Great Silver Flyer" painted on the side sits on the runway. A person sits on the wing of an Eastern Airlines airplane to work on it. Views of the ground from the air. There are large clouds in the sky. Islands dot the ocean beneath the clouds. The coastline. Trees cover a hill. Different cities and coastal areas are seen from above. A river winds through mountains. Waves break on a beach. A coastal city with row and row of buildings. There are mountains in the distance. From high up, the camera films two African American women walking down the street, one with a basket of fruit on her head. A large group of African American people walk around as they work. A person rides a donkey down a street and passes a Texaco truck. Horses pull nice wagons. Two African American men in soldier uniforms stand at attention by the front door of a building. Someone riding a donkey pulls another donkey behind. People walk and ride up and down the streets doing work and going places. Segment six: British Virgin Islands, 35:02. Scenes of a coastal city from up high looking out over the city to the water. Mountains roll down to the water. In an airplane over the mountains and land. A city sits on the side of the ocean. It follows a river inland. There are storm clouds in the distance. A pool with tables, umbrellas, and lawn chairs surrounding it. There is a park between the pool and the ocean. Viewed from a hotel room. Sunlight reflects on the ocean. People walk around a cobble-stone street. There are buildings and trees. Cars are parked on the street next to a residency. An old Spanish-style church. Cemeteries line a hillside overlooking the water. Two boys walk around the street of a slum area naked. They play in the street together. The shacks are right by the water. Goats walk around and eat anything. People sit on the side of the street. Soldiers walk around near buildings in an area by the water. A man stops to show something to the camera. A boat speeds along the water toward the edge of a walkway. By the docks there is wood. Sailboats and other boats on the water. Waves slowly ripple to the beach as the sun sets. Mountains in the distance behind the trees and fields. A treelined drive. A white house with red awnings. Flowers in a tree that are shades of pink. Orchids kept in a pot inside a building. There are bed flowers on branches high in the air. People walk across puddles of water to the shacks in the slum where they live. Some shacks line a road and cars drive by. Waves crash on a beach. Flags fly in the wind off the water. Scenes of the town on the water. Mountains in the distance past fields. Large and dark clouds while on the airplane. Boats float in the water. Houses and streets climb a hill. Sign: "PERFUMERY." A street corner with a building and a sign: "VIRGIN ISLANDS NATIONAL BANK." People attend a market. Fruits and vegetables are for sale. Coca-Cola advertisement on a building. Donkeys are loaded with boxes and saddles. Buildings line a path to the water. Buildings climb a hill. Sign: "3 AB LILLIE GRONNE GADE." A person walks through an alley. An empty and abandoned building. African American women sit in a building and read books together. A building with green and yellow striped awnings. Monument: "FODT 8 APRIL 1818 KONCE 15 NOVEMBER 1863 DOD 28 JANDAR 1906." A bust sits on top of the monument. A pink building with "HOTEL 1829" painted on it. A car is parked at the top of a hill with buildings below. Mountains and hills rolling into the water. The city sits in the bay area. There are other smaller pockets of habitation away from the water. A pink flower. An orange flower. Pink flowers and white flowers in the water with lily pads. White flowers hang down from vines. Darkness is descending over the water, and the sky and water match in color. There are small islands in the water. It is raining over the water. There is a pocket of bright blue. A clock tower. Inside a home with a fireplace. Living and family rooms. A lizard stands on a tree. A woman walks and looks at plants. A green house with open windows and a large yard. Trees line a road. The green house from across the street. A group of people look over a railing, then back away. A girl carries a doll. Coconuts up in a tree. A white building with "CARIOCA" painted in black on top. People watch an airplane get loaded and prepared for flight. "PAN AMERICAN WORLD AIRWAY." They fly over the ocean. The waves can be seen below the wind. The land and water combine for a view of green and blue. There are clumps of clouds in the sky. The plane is above some of the clouds. There is an island alone in the water below. Black slug.
Local Identifier:: hm-sheff_0116.mp4
External Identifiers:
Metadata URL:: https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:ugabma_bmahm_hm-sheff-0116
Digital Object URL:: https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:ugabma_bmahm_hm-sheff-0116
Language:: eng
Extent:: 1 video file (mp4) (47 min., 04 sec.) : si., col.
Original Collection:: Frank Sheffield home movie collection, 1925-1965
Holding Institution:: Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection
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