Harry B. Taylor Film Footage: China and Miscellaneous Footage
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Taylor, Harry B.
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content: Harry B. Taylor films
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (silent, black-and-white reversal; 400 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1928-1934
container: label: Container
content: Item Item: 2016.19.1-11
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Moving Images
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content: Film reels
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Amateur film by Harry Taylor containing shots of people and scenes in a variety of locations in the United States and China. Family on watercraft; two women looking at infant; infant on "table"; children and women on porch, children on porch swing, boy with toy bus; people walking down steps from stately brick house to car, people posing in driveway; people descending stairs of stately building with columns and standing on porch; dirigible flying over rooftops; woman and children at beach, child with toy sail boat, child with big ball, woman in bathing suit dodges being filmed; adults and children leaving church with infant (baptism?), pastor, woman holds umbrella over infant, women dressed in "nice" warm weather clothes; family descending steps of brick building with large columns, gathering on lawn; women and children milling around on lawn, maypole(?) with streamers; small swimming pool on ship(?) with children swimming; from water a view of boat with single sail and coastal city and countryside; on ship children playing shuffle board and running, man posing and then same man and woman  pose for camera, boy plays with cat; family scenes with man holding baby, children posing for camera, children on seesaw and swing; laundry drying on clothes line between two large brick buildings; children play with doll house outside in the snow; family on lawn, children on play equipment; street scene in, presumably, China with "gate" in background; pastor holding baby, woman walks with them; adults dodging being filmed; man holds large snake, same man removes small snake from a space under the ground; children playing with wagon on lawn, pose for camera, woman and man with baby, children posing in playpen; man with drum and monkey in costume perform for woman and children sitting on porch steps; toddler walking on lawn; two children being pulled in rick saw by man, children playing in surf with woman, all in bathing suits, and then man in bathing suit joins children, children dressed and playing among rocks in the surf, several rick saws holding baskets, children and adults pulled by men; and looking out over water (evening?).