[Reel 54]
Published: 1957
Number of pages: 466
Subjects: Cruise lines; Hotels, motels; Automobiles in motion pictures; Travel in motion pictures; Tourism in motion pictures; Antiques business; Indigenous peoples
Work titles: Carry Wagner home movies (Motion picture 1957) 16 mm
Description: Home movies recorded by Carry Wagner. 1957 part 1; 14:36 women with baskets on heads, from moving car; 14:43 landscape through barbed wire; 15:04 two men rocking huge wooden barrel; 15:26 group of men in suits, bald man in white lab coat; 15:31 woman with huge load on head, from car; 15:49 girls dancing in circle; 16:34 bamboo birdcages; 16:58 women posing for picture on deck, holding wooden hoops for deck game; 17:00 woman posing, man painting ship’s rigging behind her; 17:10 woman with cat on deck; 17:40 deck, pool, sunning scenes; 18:25 group of black men treading water, looking up; 18:35 dockworker unloading cars; 19:13 uniformed man directing traffic; 19:36 pristine beach; 20:12 old couple walking towards camera; 21:00 huge palm trees lining road; 21:29 closeup of tourists; 22:10 black woman with bundle on head, child poor; 22:16 spectacular ocean coast, green hills; 24:03 man boarding ship; 24:47 rocky coastline; 25:27 bridge; 25:30 ominously dark sky over brownish bay; 26:19 man with hat and camera on deck, looking into camera; 27:23 dock area, densely packed with small boats; 29:09 two people in canoe on muddy delta waters; 29:43 dockside warehouse: “Cocal A. Fonseca & Cia.; 29:46 huge logs by water, river or delta; 29:49 three girls standing on logs; 30:09 man with parrot in hand; 30:25 boy running across jungle bridge; 30:44 men winching huge logs; 31:14 barebacked men scrubbing decks.
Notes: Harvard Film Archive reversal positive, HFA item no. 9605. From The Carry Wagner Collection.

Title taken from labeling on the can.

Date is a production date, this film was never distributed.

Descriptive information and timing regarding scene locations taken from a video log of a vhs tape produced from the original 16 mm film.

The owner of an antique store in Greenwich Village, (The Charm Shop on West 4th Street) Carry Wagner traveled extensively in order to purchase jewelry and other items for her business. She recorded these trips on 16 mm color film, leaving behind a remarkable record of the world that she visited in the years following World War II. The daughter of Jewish emigres from Eastern Europe, she grew up on the Lower East Side, and as a young woman became involved in the women's suffragette movement and the trade union struggles that were taking place in NYC at the time. At one point she worked in the Massachusetts mills. During the forties and fifties she began traveling extensively. The seventy reels of color film in this collection range from footage shot in apartheid South Africa, to scenes of bombed out German cities in the immediate aftermath of World War II. Highlights include extensive footage of travel via cruise ship, before air travel became commonplace, as well as footage of Franco's Spain, and Morocco and Algeria prior to independence.

Director, Carry Wagner; producer, Carry Wagner.