Home movies
odd: label: Local Number
content: HSFA 2002.2.2
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Frost, Charles H. (Charles Hamilton), 1870-1926
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content: Charles H. Frost films
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (21 minutes , black-and-white silent; 540 feet, 9.5mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1927
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Film reels
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Footage seems to be taken at two locations, one with two houses on a lake (noted as "cottage" on film cans) which is probably the Frost family homestead in Ontario, Canada, and the other, possibly, a house in town (New Jersey?).  Footage includes family and friends (?) milling around outside the two houses on the lake, some goofing around with a young woman sitting in baby stroller and playing with dog; adults in water with little children while some watch from the dock (one child in the water is crying); adults and two toddlers outside garage (adults encourage the toddlers to hug); towing and rowing a floating dock; toddlers on lawn walking and falling; and a 1927 regatta (personal motor boats, launches, sculls, steamer, and other water craft) with viewers on opposite shore.  One scene shows a toddler playing on lawn with a ball, a woman brings a rocking chair onto lawn, places ball on the chair as though to entice the child to climb into chair, she walks away, and the child walks toward camera, ignoring the chair and ball.

Legacy Keywords: Children playing ; Children ; Lakes Canada ; Boats and boating ; Family recreation ; Amateur films