[Elizabeth Thompson Reed–home movies] Reel 2
[Elizabeth Thompson Reed--home movies] Reel 2
Video:
Identifier:
1026.0002
Collection:
Sheila Denny-Brown Collection
Date:
1930 – 1935
Original Format:
16mm
Color:
B&W
Sound:
Silent
Duration:
400 ft
Can Description:
Dobb - 1931. Bliss' Graduation Dobbs - 1931. Anne's Graduation Vassar - 1930 Commencement Hammonds + Edith Woolsey at Bishop St. Yale Ball Game Vassar 1930 Vassar 1935 Bliss Graduation
Viewing Notes:
Women playing baseball/softball. People racing around a track, a large brick building in the background. A crowd of young women on a lawn/garden. People seated outdoors (graduation?) Women performing a dance. Women in costume. Women in robes/costumes walking down the steps of a large stone building. Women carrying bouquets as they walk down the steps. They lay the bouquets on the steps in front of the women in robes, and keep walking. Women walking and running. Shots of the seated crowd. People in costume walking onto a stage in front of the stone building, with prop cut outs of trees and a castle. Play/performance, procession of people in costume. A dance performance. A procession of women in white dresses. Women in hats with cups of tea. A group of seated women. A group of people pose for the camera outside of a house. People on a field hold up a banner: [obscured] Foundation’. Two men carry a pig onto a baseball diamond surrounded by stands. Men with flags walking around the perimeter of the diamond. A car with the sign ‘Class of 1865, Out 65 Years’. A marching band with the banner ‘1800’. A man with a camera can be seen in the bottom right corner. A man conducts a group of men singing. People carrying signs. A woman standing in a car with the sign ‘Bishop CANN-[cut off]. A group of women in white hats, carrying a banner: ‘1903’. Women in white dresses, hats and armbands, with the banner: ‘1902’. Women marching with the banner:’ 1903’. A group of women marching with a banner: ‘1904’. Banner: ‘1901’. Group of women with the banner: ‘1922’. Professors in robes and mortarboards. Banner: ‘1903’. Shots of the campus. Women in white hats and coats, with the banner: ‘1905’. Group with the banner: ‘1903’. A group of older women with sashes. A group of seated professors. Five children stand in front of a crowd, holding the banners for 1905, 1921, 1923, and 1904. One woman holds a sign that says ‘1902’ and a phrase in Greek. Class of ‘1935’ carrying their banner. The class of ‘1904’ carrying their banner. Four young women wave at the camera. A group of women sitting on the ground. Women marching and carrying a garland of flowers. Graduates in robes and mortarboards. [End of Reel]
Subject(s):
Amateur films, Baseball, Costumes, Performance, Sports, Universities and colleges, Women
Place(s):
Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York; Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
Rights:
This item may be available for reuse, please contact Northeast Historic Film for more information
Source:
https://oldfilm.org/collection/Detail/occurrences/6532