Title: Reels 1-10 /
Authors: Wagner, Carry, 1896-1992,; Carry Wagner Collection (Harvard Film Archive)
Year: 1939
Subjects: Wagner, Carry,; Travel in motion pictures.; Cruise lines.; Dwellings Guatemala.; Hotels, motels, etc.; Architecture, Colonial; Indigenous peoples; Cities and towns Guatemala.; Guatemala Description and travel.; Guatemala Civilization; Bahamas Description and travel.; Bahamas Social life and customs.
Abstract: Home movies recorded by Carry Wagner. Filmed during a trip to Guatemala. 1940 Guatemala 5:02 cityscape with volcano 5:08 Indian girls in market 5:21 parakeet and two girls 5:42 two boys running against wall 5:55 small prop plane- takeoff, coasting, 6:25 five people in courtyard, seated 6:32 woman diving into pool, 6:55 plaza amphitheatre 7:11 cotton candy seller 7:22 sunset cityscape, 8:08 mountain & palm tree seen through archway, 8:11 old churchfront 8:26 train moving down tracks, 8:35 train trestle bridge 8:46 women walking down tracks, vending 8:50 train pulls out of station 9:12 women vendors fruit baskets on head, train station 9:45 Mayan looking sculptures, outdoors 10:48 white men waving hats, hand powered railway cart pulls up 11:20 plantation, palms 11:40 meat hanging on racks 11:44 ship deck scenes 11:51 lone seagull soaring 11:52 four warships 12:03 older women dancing on deck, very exhuberant 12:11 ship at dock, fog shrouded 12:28 United Fruit Co. dock site, Great White Fleet 12:34 baggage; suitcases on dock being loaded 12:40 Carry Wagner, Carl and sister. Filmed during a trip to The Bahamas. ‘Welcome to Nassau’ sign handpainted 21:33 black man sweeping dock, ship in back, 21:42 group of white men with large 35 mm. film cameras, 21:50 ship, 21:56 ‘Lady Sommers’, again at 22:39 22:00 men walking up gangway, 22:05 dock workers relaxing, sitting down, b22:14 man peering through porthole 22:18 white uniformed guard on dock, very formal 22:36 large ceremony in plaza 22:49 royal couple coming down gangway, being greeted 23:16 rows of uniformed black men, at attention 23:32 royal couple walk close by, she waves 23:41 armed guards marching 23:47 film crews lined up 23:50 large British flags 24:10 man in English judge’s wig 24:16 black crowds, Panama hats 24:24 very prim white man 24:28 bishops in front of church 24:59 proper couple walking across lawn.