Martin D. Bruner sample video
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: HSFA 2008.15.1
name: label: Creator
content: Bruner, Martin D.
label: Former owner
content: Bruner, John M. R.
place: label: Place
content: United States
topic: label: Topic
content: Collectors and collecting
label: Topic
content: Amateur films
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Received from John M.R. Bruner in 2008.
creator: label: Creator
content: Bruner, Martin D.
culture: label: Culture
content: North America
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Videocassettes (VHS) (Approximately 63 minutes)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1991
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Previously described under the titles Bruner Motion Picture Sampler and John Bruner Video Collection.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: HSFA.2008.15
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Videocassettes (vhs)
label: Type
content: Video recordings
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Titles supplied by the archivist for untitled films.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Video recordings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Video created by John M.R. Bruner to provide historical insight into his father's amateur film collection for the Human Studies Film Archives. The video is an example of the value of documenting amateur film collections and saving contextual materials. Dr. Bruner shows the projector, a reel of film and the labelled can, the basement where the film is stored on a shelf suspended from the ceiling, his mother's documentation of the films (typed notebook detailing the contents of all the films, notes on history and culture, articles and clippings and, for the cruises, notebooks of the ship's daily newsletter, itineraries, shipboard activities and photographs and a 3" x 5" index box of her notes that are filed alphabetically by subject matter) and samples of the film videotaped off a screen. Film shown includes Bruner family (1927); Valley Forge, picnic on way to Baltimore, and Atlantic City Beach (1928); Lakehurst, New Jersey and the Graf Zeppelin (1929); Trip to California including the St. Louis, Missouri, Zoo, Hollywood and crossing the Mojave Desert (1930); and cruise to Scandanavia and Russia (1938). Using photographs and clippings, Bruner also presents a brief biography of his father, Martin D. Bruner, born in 1894 in Kansas who became a dentist and settled in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania.

Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the context and culture of the time of its creation. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive today. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution or Anthropology Archives, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: The Martin D. Bruner collection is held by Northeast Historic Film in Bucksport, Maine.