1964HOME MOVIES
Family Home Movies - Trip to Boston, New York, and Springfield, Illinois (birthplace of Abraham Lincoln - 1960's. Also African American family house party, suburban homes.
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Reel opens - Family home movies 1960s - travel
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| 01:00:01 1.61 |
Var. jumpy footage in and around Boston taken from hand held home movie camera
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| 01:00:08 8.33 |
Rawding Lines Sightseeing Tours, Inc. - Tour bus. This is out of Boston.
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| 01:00:15 15.33 |
Some footage is yellow and jumpy. Visible is an early sailing vessel, docked most likely in Boston Harbor or the Charlestown Navy Yard. This could be the USS Constitution AKA "Old Ironsides"
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| 01:00:45 45.01 |
Well dressed woman standing beside tour bus, posing for camera
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| 01:00:49 49.92 |
Statue of Colonel William Prescott, Revolutionary War Hero, standing tall in front of the Bunker Hill Monument in Boston.
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| 01:01:01 61.04 |
Large vertical banner on brick building - "Boston Common - this is your park keep it clean". Pan down to partially obscured memorial plaque to Paul Revere.
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| 01:01:05 65.51 |
Partial shots of the Paul Revere memorial.
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| 01:01:29 89.25 |
Cutaway to New York. Manhattan skyline POV ferry.
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| 01:02:09 129.66 |
Cutaway to Manhattan skyline POV sightseeing ferry.
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| 01:02:16 136.65 |
Statue of Liberty - POV sightseeing cruise around Manhattan Island. Man in frame taking photos.
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| 01:02:33 153.16 |
Cargo ships out in New York Harbor, the Statue of Liberty in bkgd then obscured as ships pass each other. Black framing around footage.
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| 01:02:35 155.24 |
Cargo ships out in New York Harbor. Statue of Liberty in bkgd.
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| 01:02:39 159.89 |
People taking photos of Manhattan Island and Manhattan skyline from ferry - Foggy day.
Black frame and fading in film. |
| 01:02:47 167.11 |
Manhattan Bridge (or Brooklyn Bridge) POV tourists on ferry around Manhattan. Ferry taking passengers under the bridge. Shots of the shoreline with ugly smoke stacks blowing black smoke into the sky, Manhattan skyline including the United Nations building.
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| 01:04:01 241.06 |
Cutaway to early evening highway drive, POV from moving vehicle.
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| 01:04:50 290.21 |
Grainy film with black fading border around it - WS A large cruise ship with smoke stacks pulling away from harbor.
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| 01:05:15 314.99 |
Partially obstructed signage for the Circle Line (boat tours) in New York Harbor.
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| 01:05:35 335.7 |
Dark grainy footage with faded black frame - POV from a Ferry tour (Circle Line) around Manhattan Island - var shots of the skyline from the ferry in New York Harbor, and sights around harbor, including ships, boats and various vessels docked, a tug boat going by and The Statue of Liberty.
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| 01:08:23 503.67 |
CU - Plaque on the Statue of Liberty Monument.
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| 01:08:31 511.53 |
People waiting outside the entrance and going into the Statue of Liberty.
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| 01:08:42 522.95 |
Var shots different angles of the Statue - panning up and down. Footage is Dark and grainy.
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| 01:09:37 577.02 |
WS the Circle Line Ferry for the Statue of Liberty at dock.. People up top of the ferry and people filing out of the ferry.
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| 01:09:53 593.78 |
Yellow and red tinted film - a nicely dressed African American woman standing between two vintage cars, she waves at the camera
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| 01:10:22 622.55 |
Large sign in a field for The University of Buffalo. No Trespassing No Thru Traffic (!)
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| 01:10:37 637.45 |
Jumpy dark and sometimes Yellow film of Var shots around Buffalo, NY., downtown, Lake Eerie, Niagara Falls.
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| 01:11:30 690.91 |
Niagara Falls.
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| 01:11:57 717.16 |
Well dressed folk pose for camera in a park, two men dressed in suits with an older gray hair'd woman.
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| 01:11:59 719.38 |
Var shots outdoors in a park, horse and buggy riding away, two older African American women sitting on park bench turn and smile for camera, older well dressed folk pose for camera, men wearing their dapper suits and hats
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| 01:12:36 756.18 |
Shots from the Buffalo Botanical Gardens. The beautiful domed green house.
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| 01:13:10 790.33 |
Security guard at entrance to park or could be Canadian border crossing.
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| 01:13:18 798 |
Cutaway to int. home - African American family event or party in private home. Woman in pretty apron holding a bowl and bringing it to the dining table which is full of well dressed folk. WS dining room table full of people -
film is dark. People posing for camera on a staircase in living room and around the dining room table. Film is dark, fading in and out. |
| 01:14:36 876.82 |
Folk sitting on living room couch and easy chairs drinking beverages, platse of food laid out on side tables
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| 01:15:05 905.72 |
Dining room loaded with plates of food. People helping themselves.
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| 01:15:18 918.93 |
Ext. African American man in nice suit and tie with nicely dressed woman admiring red flowers outside. WS front of neat attached homes in the suburbs, housewife wearing an apron standing out on front steps of home walks down front path and greets and hugs another lady.
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| 01:16:03 963.15 |
Var shots of nice neat homes (some attached) in the suburbs with flower gardens, awnings, cars parked in driveways. Couple out front of home, woman showing off her garden flowers
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| 01:16:41 1001.01 |
Cutaway to WS of a large, stand alone, multistory office building (unknown) on a large plot of land (in a suburban area).
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| 01:16:52 1012.35 |
WS a rambling ranch home in the suburbs, with large front lawn and bushes, other homes in bkgd.
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| 01:17:00 1020.4 |
Cutaway to var shots of a large gray brick building or campus of what looks like an academy or school. Then cutaway again back to the suburban neighborhood with nice homes, lawns and gardens.
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| 01:17:15 1035.2 |
Cutaway back to skyline of the city of Buffalo, New York POV across Lake Eerie.
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| 01:17:25 1045.37 |
Three well-dress African American ladies and a nicely dressed gentleman standing, posing at the beginning of a path that leads to a Planetarium. The domed structure is seen in the bkgd.
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| 01:17:45 1065.39 |
WS tour bus parked outside a concrete domed Planetarium. Well dressed women posing on the steps.
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| 01:18:12 1092.18 |
Var WSs a beautiful and large fountain.
Black frame edges around film. |
| 01:18:29 1109.86 |
Vintage truck driving past large governmental building.
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| 01:18:34 1114.23 |
WS the historic wide downtown street in Springfield Illinois, birthplace of President Abraham Lincoln. Traffic headed toward camera.
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| 01:18:41 1121.38 |
Var shots of the Illinois State Capitol building in Springfield.
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| 01:18:43 1123.97 |
Abraham Lincoln statue by Andrew O'Connor (1918) standing tall at the East front of the State Capitol building in Springfield, Illinois.
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| 01:18:46 1126.28 |
Var shots government buildings in Springfield.
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| 01:18:54 1134.83 |
Street sign "200 E Capitol" with a masked face beneath it. Shots of various other government buildings and monuments in Springfield, Illinois
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| 01:19:54 1194.03 |
Sign for the "Lincoln Museum"
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| 01:20:04 1204.93 |
A docked old style "showboat", behind the showboat is a large modern cruise ship. Vintage cars parked in lot along the harbor area. Steel bridge over water in bkgd.
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| 01:20:34 1234.83 |
African American teenage girl posing on front porch of home with three other older ladies.
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