1941 circa: [Skeeter Slumber Party - Pony Rides]

Date: circa 1941
Cfa collection: Richard J. Finnegan Collection
Notes: Four sisters pick tulips in a garden. The girls pose indoors, curtsying, laughing, and waving their fingers at the camera, while taking turns dressing up in costumes.; With a golf course in the background, a man leads a small trained monkey through a series of tricks, including walking on its front hands, doing summersaults, swinging a golf club at a ball, sitting in a tiny rocking chair, and playing a toy piano. The scene shifts to the sisters riding see-saws, descending slides and swinging on swings, the golf course still in the background.; On separate days, various sequences display the girls riding ponies around a corral, riding a merry-go-round on horses at the “Pony Rides” site, riding a merry-go-round in individual race cars, and riding in open gondolas.; The final scene shows the four girls several years older than previously seen. They line up in a yard in front of a white picket fence. Then, an older gentleman who is presumably their grandfather and likely Richard J. Finnegan, poses with them.
Subjects: Domestic life; Families; Family recreation
Places: North America > United States > Illinois > Oak Park
Language: English
Cfa elements: Reversal Positives, 200 feet
Cfa records: https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/8471