[Percy B. Eckhart Home Movies]
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Eckhart, Percy B. (Percy Bernard), 1877-1969
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content: Percy B. Eckhart films
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content: Percy B. Eckhart films / Series 2: Home Movies
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1925-1932
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Film footage is home movies of an affluent family. Film footage is largely of two young brothers, shot mostly at generic suburban and country homes. Film footage of older members of family is brief but includes a man painting en plein air in the woods. Bulleted information is transcribed from film reels and/or cans. Filming locations include: Lyme, Connecticut, and Cambridge, Massachusetts. Film footage includes potentially recognizable shots of city skyscrapers from a ship and a rocky New England coastline and harbor.