These films include footage taken in destinations at least a flight away (or very long drive) from Palm Springs, California, and don’t fit the holiday/wedding/special events category. The captions in [brackets], whenever possible, include labels from the original item in “quotation marks.” We add estimated dates and other details. For best viewing experience, choose the 720p or higher setting on the player.
#63. [“Atlantic City,” ca. 1952.] 8mm. B/W. Silent.
#315. [Kids Playing in Swimming Pool and Ping Pong, Adults Pose and Chat, 1970s.] Super 8mm. Color. Silent. Young kids playing in a backyard swimming pool and (attempting to) play ping-pong, an older woman in a patterned jacket stands in the shade of a plumeria tree and plays with a dog. Description by Pathways Summer intern (2024) Janeth Delgado.
#312. [Family Goofing for the Camera, 1970s.] 8mm. Color. Silent.
RS#1. [Student Film/Home Movie of Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam, November 15, 1969.] 8mm. Color. Sound. (Now) local resident Roger Schwarz donated this film to our collection. He and a fellow classmate shot this footage on the day, and Melissa edited together the newly digitized 8mm film and reel-to-reel audio in consultation with Schwarz. The original soundtrack is included for educational purposes only.
#345. [Gladys’ Wedding and Beach + Kids Party with Pash + Poirot, 1951.] 16mm. Color. Silent. 1951. Donald Ramsay Lawson family films, donated by his daughter Beth Campbell. Rhode Island. Gladys’ Wedding:pre-ceremony pictures at a house, the groom and bride arriving at the church along with guests, leaving the church; Horse Riding: a few scenes with men riding horses, perhaps at a ranch; Family vacation: two kids horsing around and dancing next to a bandstand, kids in the ocean, the family together on a dock; Kids’ Party: a large kid’s party at the park with two costumed characters (Pash + Poirot.) [Digitized and partially described by UCLA grad students in IS289-3 “Special Issues in Information Studies: Motion Picture Film Preservation” course, Fall 2022. See notes about the collaboration on the “Events and News” page.]
#342. [“Boys Club Camping Trip, September 1959″.] 8mm. Color. Silent. Donald Ramsay Lawson family films, donated by his daughter Beth Campbell. Unknown location. Group cooking at campsite; boys playing on boulders; boy eating grapefruit; boy playing with log; climbing trees; eating and drinking at a table; general campsite shots; climbing trees; sharpening sticks with knives; climbing trees; hiking; snack break while hiking. [Digitized and partially described by UCLA grad students in IS289-3 “Special Issues in Information Studies: Motion Picture Film Preservation” course, Fall 2022. See notes about the collaboration on the “Events and News” page.]
#336 [“Alberta- Dancers Mexican-Spanish Indians – Chicken Dance, Calgary 1962.”] 8mm. Color. Silent. Donald Ramsay Lawson family films, donated by his daughter Beth Campbell. Calgary (Alberta), Canada, parade performers include cowboy and (Mexican or Spanish) dancers, motorcycle going down the street, men in cowboy hats, Indigenous ceremonial dancing, men riding horses in Native American ceremonial head wear. [Digitized and partially described by UCLA grad students in IS289-3 “Special Issues in Information Studies: Motion Picture Film Preservation” course, Fall 2022. See notes about the collaboration on the “Events and News” page.]
#373. [1956 Olympic Games Alternate Rose Caccamise Graduates From High School, Family In the Yard, 1958.] 8mm, Color. Silent. Rose Caccamise family films. Rose Caccamise walks through doors with her graduating class in their purple robes and mortar boards (Batavia High School), Rose shakes hands with a priest, then with another younger one who tries on her mortar board, Rose posing with diploma on the grass and smiling, a horse and buggy goes by down a busy city street past stores, nuns pass the camera on the city sidewalk and smile, still camera man walks ahead of the graduates walking down the sidewalk past onlookers and a grocery store, Rose is in the group, Rose’s parents, and another man having a beer on a wooden porch in a garden, roughhousing with a boy who joins the men, Rose’s mom Nellie watering a rose bush, the boy roughhousing with a dog, Rose’s grandparents, the boy and others standing around, a little girl in a dotted dress, family fun on the porch and in the yard ensues. Someone busts out an accordion, there’s a nice car. Nellie in a fabulous hat stands by a car and there’s a close-up of her rosary and white gloves, the boy gets into the car, a man comes to the car, they go a waterfall, pose for pics, walk a bit. [Note: Search for “Caccamise” on our site to see more of her family films, including Women’s Track and Field Trials for the 1956 Olympics.]
#402. [Rose Caccamise’s Family Visits Her In A Nunnery Part #2, 1956.] 8mm. Color. Silent. Rose Caccamise family films. Rose takes her family around the nunnery: lots of posing for the camera, walking and talking, and exterior shots of the buildings. We also see a bit of Rose goofing off with a small group of nuns. Description by Pathways Summer intern (2024) Janeth Delgado. [Note: Search for “Caccamise” on our site to see more of her family films, including Women’s Track and Field Trials for the 1956 Olympics.]
#403. [Rose Caccamise’s Family Visits Her In A Nunnery Part #3, 1956.] 8mm. Color. Silent. Rose Caccamise family films. Exterior shot of the nunnery as Rose approaches, sitting with her family, Rose inspecting a Jeep, receiving presents, posing with family, and panning shots of the surrounding area. Description by Pathways Summer intern (2024) Janeth Delgado. [Note: Search for “Caccamise” on our site to see more of her family films, including Women’s Track and Field Trials for the 1956 Olympics.]
#404. [Rose Caccamise’s Family Visits Her In A Nunnery Part #1, 1956.] 8mm. Color. Silent. Rose Caccamise family films. A large crowd in the parking lot, family posing, Rose in her habit, displaying her rosary, Rose posing for the camera. Description by Pathways Summer intern (2024) Janeth Delgado. [Note: Search for “Caccamise” on our site to see more of her family films, including Women’s Track and Field Trials for the 1956 Olympics.]
#405. [Rose Caccamise Runs Detroit Marathon and Vacationing, ca. 1970s.] 8mm. Color. Silent. Rose Caccamise family films. Shots of runners and the marathon, POV from car of Detroit sites, Rose and friends at a motel, a man fishing at a river, Rose at a resort pool. Description by Pathways Summer intern (2024) Janeth Delgado. [Note: Search for “Caccamise” on our site to see more of her family films, including Women’s Track and Field Trials for the 1956 Olympics.]
DR#10. [“July ’83, Tulsa Family.”] VHS. Color. Sound. In this video, David Root goes back to Tulsa, Oklahoma, to visit with family in July 1983 (with some footage dubbed in from 1980). Video includes images of neighborhoods, backyard pool party and family gathering, his parents discussing their impending 50th wedding anniversary and their previous careers as traveling puppeteers, they go through a picture album, and watch a video of themselves putting on a little show from 1980, show and tell around their house and yard, the entire 1980 puppet show dubbed in, and more hand puppets.
To learn more about David Root, see DR#2 and DR#5 under “Publications & Resources,” and search for more of his videos by name throughout the website. UPDATE March 2023: Deserted Films donated the David Root videotape collection to the GBLT Historical Society in San Francisco. Here is a link to the finding aid.
#387. [“Egg Hunt, Picnic, Parade, Church, Garden, Train, Boats, Six Flags,” ca. 1958 forward.] 8mm. Color. Silent. See also #388 from the same family. We think this family may be from the Dallas/Fort Worth area of Texas — perhaps the historically Black Oak Cliff neighborhood (OR Austin). A house and front yard covered in snow, family posing, more snowy scenes, a church group gathering outdoors, Christmas at home, front yard in summer, family at the train station, church choir and congregation, a Christmas tree and pile of gifts at home, shoveling snow, group posing (at a wedding?), outdoor elementary school dance performance for , summer in the yard, kids on bikes on the road, church service, ladies gathered around a table all wearing red, park scene, family by the coast, a most likely Juneteenth parade with men on horseback and cars/trucks as floats, the house garden, ladies at the train station and POV from the train, outdoor house party, Christmas tree and new kitchen, a horse and buggy, shots of the house, city shots, a different outdoor elementary school dance performance, family at the lake (or a flood?), kids camping in the yard, boy on a small tractor, visiting a farm, kids building model cars on the porch, family trip to New Orleans and a boat ride on the Mississippi, family fishing at a river, Christmas party at home, teen in a marching band uniform. As far as we can tell, this reel does not include Six Flags. Description by Pathways Summer intern (2024) Janeth Delgado.
#388. [Family at Six Flags (?), Church, Celebrations, ca. 1961 forward.] 8mm. Color. Silent. See also #387 from the same family.
#386. [Family/Friends Having A Basement Dance Party, ca. 1960s.] 8mm. Color. Silent.
#381. [Michigan Caterpillar Plant, 1970s.] Super 8mm. Color. Silent. Home movie of a Caterpillar plant under construction. Wait for the colorful murals at the end.
#526. [“Diamond Head, Hula Dancer,” ca. 1965.] 8mm. Color. Silent. Trip to Oahu, Hawaii, footage includes a trip to the Polynesian Cultural Center (neat), view from the top of Punchbowl and Honolulu, coastline, Diamond Head, and the view from their hotel or rental.
#498. [“Villa, etc., Rome,” Venice, Florence, Naples, Amalfi Coast, July-August, 1962.] 8mm. Color. Silent. Mytinger Family Home Movies. Search for more Mytinger Family films throughout the website. Phyllis and Sandra Mytinger pictured at various locations in Italy, family illustrates their travels in clever handmade titles using a map of Italy and other souvenirs; drinking Coca Cola on a balcony; scenery in Lake Como, Bergamo, Verona; gondolas and architecture in Venice; statues and bridges in Florence; a fortress in Naples; boating to the Blue Grotto and a mountaintop view in Capri; Pompeii and Mount Vesuvius; lots of footage of buildings from boats/on the water, plus such astounding sights as handsome traffic cops and bikinis (!) Description by volunteer Rio Maropis.
#242. [“Cairo,” ca. 1950s.] 8mm. Color. Silent.
#417. [Family, Kids, at Home, 1950s.] 8mm. Color. Silent. Black family — (Dark indoors) ladies dressed up in living room posing, neighborhood, guy on porch, little kids playing, exterior of their house.
#429. [Lawn Darts in Backyard, 1960s.] Super 8mm. Color. Silent. Summer, backyard – family playing lawn darts, cool hats, BBQ.
#462. [Motion Pictures of the New York World’s Fair, 1940.] 8mm. B/W. Silent. Official Films. Produced by Leslie Winik. Souvenir film of the 1939-1940 New York’s World’s Fair.
#489. [“Tobogganing Run, Schiff” (Farms?), 1950s-60s.] 8mm. Color. Silent. Several boys go tobogganing through snowy woods, including a cool POV shot while riding the sled, a chartered bus drives away as an unknown someone waves from the window, shots of a house and other buildings in a lightly forested area during winter. Description by Pathways Summer intern (2024) Janeth Delgado.
#507. [Pajama Party, 1950s.] 8mm. Color. Silent. A bit blurry throughout. Pajama party, playing craps by candlelight, light kit in shot, group photo – laughing, dark outside. (We jokingly call this one “the witches” – They are totally going to sacrifice the dude, Howie.)
#509. [Seaside Resort in Panama or Caribbean?, 1970s.] Super 8mm. Color. Sound. Performance (balancing/fire stick) for a big group, kids riding horses on beach, picnic, dance performance by area natives/locals, resort life. Help us identify the country!
#301. [“Black Hills, Mt. Rushmore, Train ’69, Buffalo, Mountains,” 1950s.] 8mm. Color. Silent. South Dakota: Black Hills vistas, amazing shots of fog in the valley and mountains, field of flowers, beautiful shots of an artist at his easel painting the scenery, buffaloes and elk, fog, Lookout Amphitheater in Spearfish, the Black Hills Central ‘Klondike Casey’ Locomotive #69 pulling out, a beautiful gorge, Mt. Rushmore.
#791. [“Whippets, Animation #6,” ca. 1970s.] 8mm. Color. Silent. Whippets racing (chasing a fake rabbit on a string), then a handmade short stop-motion animation film made by a youth involving fighting robots! It’s got a Dalek, mini explosions, and action figures getting toasted. Includes fun titles like: “Riverside Animated Productions Presents…” (Not that Riverside we don’t think.)
#698. [Family Visit to Fort Wayne’s Children’s Zoo and Lindenwood Cemetary, late 1960s.] Super 8mm. Color. Sound. Fort Wayne, IN. Filmmaker narrates footage of a family visit to the Children’s Zoo in Franke Park, Fort Wayne, IN: a woman and toddler, animals, a small riverboat, petting zoo, Annie and Opal on a stroll, and a visit to Lindenwood Cemetery in Fort Wayne where the narrator says the have been shooting for a film called The Haunting (no, not that one). Description by Pathways Summer intern (2024) Janeth Delgado, updated by DF.
Dialogue implies the narrator may have been an amateur filmmaker. The sequence in the cemetery, he claims, was shot during the downtime while making what might have been an amateur movie production called “The Haunting”?
#770. [“Mex. OK,” 1970s.] Super 8mm. Color. Silent. San Diego family. See others from this family throughout the site. Family visit to the Museo Nacional de Antropología (MNA) in Mexico City: art and exhibits, exterior shots; family at a park with public pools, panning shots over a bay/inlet, family relaxing in a park nearby, pool fun, shots of neat rock formations, cutting a rosca de reyes (Three Kings Bread) and celebrating Three Kings’ Day (aka Epiphany), family playing with a toddler, gathering at a hilltop picnic area, toddlers playing, big group posing, breaking a piñata at a birthday party, birthday girl cutting a tiered cake (with an axe! But not really…). Description by Pathways Summer intern (2024) Janeth Delgado; updated by Deserted Films.
JS#76. [“Start of Trip, Arrive In Italy, #1,” mid-1970s.] Super 8mm. Color. Silent. Sczempka family films. Donated by Joseph Sczempka, Jr. See others from this family throughout the site. Great shots of the TWA Terminal, POV from a plane, outdoor and indoor gift exchange, adults hanging out on a patio, gathering in the living room. Description by Pathways Summer intern (2024) Janeth Delgado.
PSFam1#17. [“Winter ’58, Chances (Shade?), Image — (China?).”] 8mm. Color. Silent. Former resident of Palm Springs. See others from this filmmaker throughout the site. Adults partying in a basement, two women dancing together, cool little decorated tree, and dogs playing in a snowy yard. Description by Pathways Summer intern (2024) Janeth Delgado. [Updated by DF: We think this is actually a party to celebrate the two central women.]
PSFam1#28. [Backyard Pool Party + Puppies, 1960s.] 8mm. Color. Silent. Former resident of Palm Springs. See others from this filmmaker throughout the site. Shots of a backyard and pool, setting up for the party, adults hanging out, pool fun, croquet on the lawn, shots of puppies. Description by Pathways Summer intern (2024) Janeth Delgado.
PSFam1#32. [Women-Only Party, Kids/Front Yard Fun, ca. 1959.] 8mm. Color. Silent. Former resident of Palm Springs. See others from this filmmaker throughout the site. Women’s house party: dancing together, hanging out, goofing off; woman cleaning a car in the driveway; family playing in the front yard. Description by Pathways Summer intern (2024) Janeth Delgado.
PSFam1#40. [“Indiana (500) Races, (Ben Montgomery?), Connie Stevens, (Hoss?), Josey (Meles?),” 1960s.] 8mm. Color. Silent. Former resident of Palm Springs. See others from this filmmaker throughout the site. Footage of the crowds at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, marching band going up and down the track, and Indy 500 drivers waving to the audience. This might just be the start of the 500 Festival Parade since there is no race. Description by Pathways Summer intern (2024) Janeth Delgado.
PSFam1#41. [“Florida, Indiana Before (Indie 500) Races,” 1960s.] 8mm. Color. Silent. Former resident of Palm Springs. See others from this filmmaker throughout the site. Shots of houses along a canal, a man and woman playing shuffleboard next to the canal, some nice beach shots, adults gathering in a front yard. Description by Pathways Summer intern (2024) Janeth Delgado.
PSFam1#42. [“Indianapolis (500) Races, Inch –,” 1960s.] 8mm. Color. Silent. Former resident of Palm Springs. See others from this filmmaker throughout the site. Footage of an Indy 500 race, adults hanging out on a patio, a shot of a woman with a camera (our filmmaker?), giving dogs a bath in the backyard, dogs playing in a snowy yard. Description by Pathways Summer intern (2024) Janeth Delgado.
PSFam1#47. [“First Movie at Farm, Florida Trip, July 1953.”] 8mm. Color. Silent. Former resident of Palm Springs. See others from this filmmaker throughout the site. Women and animals at farm: petting dogs and a Siamese cat, other guests arriving, a horse and foal eating grass and running around; riding horses, sunbathing, hammocking (strapless tops were in fashion!), looking under the hood of a guest’s car, feeding a horse, more relaxing activities; Bok Tower Gardens sights (Lake Wales, FL), beach fun, posing in swimsuits; driving slowly and filming out the window, Miami City Limit sign, glimpse of Gulf No-Nox billboard, view of downtown Miami?; outside a hotel with person-shaped entry columns (help us identify!); driving past midcentury bungalows, and back to the beach; hotel courtyard, tiled stairway connecting to second floor, back to beach, then to Tropical Hobbyland and Indian Village (Miami) for swans, flamingos, alligators, monkeys, man wrestling an alligator, tropical birds, monkeys climbing on a children’s carousel; Venetian Pool and DeSoto Plaza fountain, Coral Gables; touring plantation homes or estates?; driving and capturing sunset, then during daylight, agricultural fields and reservoir, roadside bathroom break. Description by volunteer, Rio Maropis.
PSFam1#48. [“Pup Chances, 1st Summer at Home,” ca. 1957.] 8mm. Color. Silent. Former resident of Palm Springs. See others from this filmmaker throughout the site.
#837. [“Henry Jr. Birth, Cave, Trip, (Steave?), Henry (Unclear), 1976.”] Super 8mm. Color. Silent. Birthday party at home, Black family. Blowing out candles, cutting first piece. Younger children sitting at desks with notebooks and pencils. Playing school? Cut to outdoors, children in suits, dresses and coats. Shots of the outside of a house and fenced yard. Roses, dog statues, a carport. Meramec State Park (Missouri) and Meramec Caverns. Driving through the park’s hills and forests, a visitors center. Shots inside (and outside) the caverns! Family members or friends pictured in/at their station wagon. Cut to outside a church, a wedding party and guests. Bride and groom pose as guests take photos. Wedding cake and gifts pictured, including cookware, appliances and furniture. Guests at tables, talking, eating. Many women, including the bridesmaids, in lovely hats. Cut to inside a house once again. People of all ages gathered seated or standing, talking and eating. We see some of the children from the beginning of the film. Description by volunteer Rio Maropis.
#67. [“Danbury (Connecticut) Indian Heritage Days,” ca. 1960s.] Super 8mm. Color. Silent. “Indian Heritage Days” sign, people in period costume, a Dracula themed float, and Native Americans performing various ceremonial dances. Description by Pathways Summer intern (2024) Janeth Delgado.
#776. [Kids’ Poolside Costume Contest, 1975.] Super 8mm. Color. Silent.
#778. [A Year of Basement and Outdoor Parties, Holidays + Dinosaurs, mid-1960s.] 8mm. Color. Silent. Crosslisted on “Holidays, Special Events, Parties, & Weird Stuff” page. A family backyard party and picnic, a boy fishing in a marsh, a wedding reception in a lodge, family in a kitchen, lots of big dinosaur statues on display on truck beds including giant eggs and baby dinos, a big basement birthday dinner with cake and gifts, Christmas morning opening gifts with the family, boy with a train set, basement party for teens or young adults. Description by Pathways Summer intern (2024) Janeth Delgado.
#806. [Ice Skating, Snow Fun, Horseback Riding, Girl’s Communion, Ed Sullivan and Harry Belafonte on Odds Against Tomorrow Movie Set, Hudson, NY, (1959) movie Set, Hudson, NY, ca. 1958-1959.] 8mm. Color. Silent. Ice skating on a homemade ice ring in a yard, playing in snow, a series of adults address the camera or walk by, young women riding horses at a stables, girl outside in cute coat and hat, then another carrying a bible; Ed Sullivan and Harry Belafonte hanging out, chatting and shaking hands near two large trucks on the edge of the Odds Against Tomorrow movie set (Read about it here.); parade where representatives from Christian Brothers Academy (Albany, NY), J.W. Edmonds Hose Co., Greenport Pumper, Highland Hose Co. #5 (Nyack) participate; communion procession outside a Catholic church – long line of Knights of Columbus, altar boys, girls singing, girls in first communion dresses, clergy, girl posing with two nuns; Christmas morning and then seated on floral sofa opening Christmas gifts; then other family members open gifts, other guest seem to have arrived and the camera takes in some of the decor. Description by volunteer, Rio Maropis.
#807. [Priests and Catholic Group Go to the Soviet Union (and Lourdes?), ca. 1968.] 8mm. Color. Silent. A group of priests at a train station, touring St. Petersburg and visiting various locations including several cathedrals and churches, the Bronze Horseman statue, the Winter Palace, the Admiralty Embankment, a view of Palace Square, taking a boat with a tour group, and local school kids in traditional costume; the Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius; touring Moscow and visiting various locations including Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow State University, Luzhniki Stadium, the Grand Kremlin Palace, Red Square, and more cathedrals and churches; priests meeting and shaking hands, St. Basil’s Cathedral, the American embassy, a group pose with churches or cathedrals in the background; nun and priest posing with children, more posing, a procession or pilgrimage in Rosary Square in Lourdes, and a shot of the Rosary Basilica. Description by Pathways Summer intern (2024) Janeth Delgado.
#808. [“Barby & Becky Birthday, Feb. 1 & 8, 1964; Beatles on T.V. (The Ed Sullivan Show), Feb. 23, 1964.”]
#821. [#1 Family In the Morning and Backyard BBQ, 1970s.] Super 8mm. Color. Sound. Family from Chicago. Same family as #822. Footage of a Black family getting ready in the morning, hanging out on the front stoop, kids with a mic talking to the camera, a backyard family barbecue and listening to a sermon on the radio. Description by Pathways Summer intern (2024) Janeth Delgado.
#822. [#2 Family Backyard BBQ, and Friends Visiting?, 1970s.] Super 8mm. Color. Sound. Family from Chicago. Same family as #821. Guests greeting our filmmaker, shot of the barbecue in the backyard, Black friends/family visiting on the sidewalk, joining the barbecue, playing Monopoly, posing for the camera. Description by Pathways Summer intern (2024) Janeth Delgado.
JS#113. [“Josie’s Girlfriends,” ca. mid-1950s.] 8mm. Color. Silent. Sczempka family films. Donated by Joseph Sczempka, Jr. See others from this family throughout the site. Little girl dressed as Alice (Wonderland) and lady posing on couch, then man joins them — they gesture to some dolls and photos, the couple smooches, other ladies replace them, look at the objects, eat apples, two more people join them and goofing around ensues there and at a dinner table, a boy playing electric guitar, now more people: sitting around; nice rattan furniture; new film: man inspecting a whole fish over the kitchen sink, then a woman holds it up, back to the living room couch – a woman picks up a doll, adults and little kids play in yard, exterior of a house — under construction, men posing; new film: ladies bowling (YES!) tournament; new film: freshly killed dear hanging from tree/draining, trouble getting it down (tad gruesome), showing off, tying to car; new film: snow on ground, woman walking down driveway towards camera, new? white car, nighttime/neon movie house marquee with “Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, and James Mason in Forever Darling” (probably in Jamestown where Ball is from), lady party: dancing together in pairs, gifts (maybe bridal shower?), dressed up lady and man posing and showing ceramic dog; new film: little girl’s (from beginning) birthday – gifts, (cake says her name, can’t see on viewer), kids and adults eating cake…, sitting around the living room.
#598. [“W. Va. Visits New York/Granny Canning Peaches/Peggy & Tommy in Apt. #4/Peggy & Billy in Apt. #4,” ca. 1959.] 8mm. Color. Silent. Crosslisted on our “Holidays, Special Events, Parties, & Weird Stuff” page. Title cards: “Tiger Productions Presents,” “408 & 23rd St. The Old Neighborhood,” adults and teens merrymaking at home for Christmas, decorations covering most of the walls and tables are a focus ranging from family portraits, diplomas, photos of celebrities (esp. James Dean), and religious objects, family members blow kisses or kiss their fingers then touch them to the photos, a robotic tiger is introduced (the mascot for Tiger Productions?), the teen who lives there (and most likely the person behind “Tiger Productions) hugs and poses with an Oliver Hardy ventriloquist dummy, a “Washington Irving HS” flag is pinned to one wall, a main teen wears a “Geo. Westinghouse High School” sweatshirt (George Westinghouse Vocational High School in Brooklyn), the family smokes, drinks, dances, watches projected home movie footage, grandmother preserves food in the kitchen, other appearances include a homemade face mug, a twin lens camera, a film editing table and typewriter, record collection, the Christmas tree and family dog. Description by volunteer Rio Maropis.
#608. [“Spike Lee — Press Room U.T. (Univ. of Texas – Austin)/Signing * Different Picture,” March 2, 1993.] Super 8mm. B/W.
#609. [“Doc Footage, Johnny’s Camera,” ca. 1990s.] Super 8mm. B/W. Silent. Exciting — B Roll shot during the filming of a video for Burning Spear (AKA Winston Rodney) on a beach in Jamaica.
#612. [“Potluck/Chuck & Mark,” ca. 1973.] 8mm. Color. Silent. Title cards: “Weak A Films is Proud to Present Pot Luck under the professional direction of Mark LaFrance and Chuck Martin, admission 50 cents per person,” “by Chuck Martin,” (Chuck poses like a director in folding chair) “and Mark LaFrance,” (Mark shivers in a fur coat), Chuck and Mark have fun with the camera and perform skits for their pot luck, teleporting at the snap of fingers, driving in a Mustang, practicing dramatic deaths (falling and rolling down a hill), “Our version of a streker” (they mean streaker!), Mark promotes an air freshener spray, Chuck jumps and rolls into the yard from the house’s roof. Description by volunteer Rio Maropis.
#630. [Amateur Stop Motion Animation Film, ca. 1973.] Super 8mm. Color. Silent. Evolution of a clay figure who is at times a worm, a traffic attendant, the Blob? (it eats a toy truck), and an underwater monster, the figure transforms from one thing to the next as it’s attacked and stabbed by other toys or human hands, Mr. Potato Head ears, eyes, and hat are stuck in the clay, hands turn the switch on a set of TV antenna, changing the “picture” (photos) we see on display; then back to the claymation – hands sweeping up the first figure who transforms into another monster in the sea (aquarium) attacking ships from below, then that monster back in the position being attacked. Description by volunteer Rio Maropis.
#864 [”Colony Fun Nite — Bowlers,” (Ohio 1961?)] 8mm. B/W. Silent. Further description forthcoming.
#867 [“Ham Radio, 1949.”] 8mm. B/W. Silent. Film by R.B. Flowers, Jr.
#887 [Amateur Art Film (about Food Poisoning?), ca. 1966.] 8mm. Color. Silent. Further description forthcoming.
#896. [“V.A. Crabbing, late 1960s.] Super 8mm. Color. Silent. Further description forthcoming.
