Compilation Reel #24 (Home Movies & Sports)

Genre: home movie

Complete Record: 1. Madly spinning color wheel. 2. Unfocused home movie. In front of house, people walk by. CU shot of palm trees. 3. Pool of swirling red paint. Red stoplight blinks, lobster, tamarind. CU of A monkey. 4. CU of pile of pastel crayons. 5. Golden Gate Bridge with Fort Point in FG. Sailboats on San Francisco Bay, Cable Car, directional sign to “History Room”, Wells Fargo Bank Library with real stagecoach, gold mining exhibit, small model stagecoach. 6. Overexposed home movies of a 1970s DOG show at Cow Palace. Preparations in parking lot: woman grooming white poodle, combing curls out. Does same for black poodle, shot of Society of Saint Bernards sign, Saint Bernards DOGs pet, grooming DOG’s teeth, training DOG to heel. Exterior shot of “Cow Palace” sign. 7. Home movies of an outdoor concert. Late 1960s or early 1970s. Shirtless men, kids, grassy field, sunny day. People on picnic blankets before stage. People on beach chairs. People having a picnic. Several long underexposed segments. 1970s men and women play Frisbee in large green of park, crowded. Little black kids pet 70s police officer’s horse. 8. Blurry, overexposed footage of college football game. Players wear leather helmets. Game is on a practice field and not a stadium, onlookers standing on sidelines. Various huddles, tackles, long passes. 9. Horse race featuring victory of “Broadway Handicap”: horses on track walk to gate, race starts, they’re off, 2 1/2 furlong race - several times around the track, several crowd shots, people in the stands. 10. Football: Cardinals vs. Cleveland Browns at Komiskey Park. Game highlights. Crowd shots in stadium. 23 yard pass, Jimmy Brown makes four touchdowns, a sideline run from 50 yard line to 11 yard line, field goal, a kickoff to end zone returned for touchdown - 102 yards. 71 yard touchdown, Multiple handoffs to touchdown. 11. Title Card: Painting of Niagara Falls. “Niagara Falls Honeymooner’s Paradise Canada”. High shot of a tall bridge (over a mighty river) leading to a city in the BG. Shot of Niagara Falls in the BG. and a city and highway in FG. Niagara Falls shot at eye level as water goes over the Falls. Shot of falls from at eye level, from the side, a boat approaches the Falls from below (possibly the “Lady of the Lake”). Shot of couple on bench with Falls in the BG. Wedding party taking formal pictures outside of a cathedral. Various shots of a rose garden. Suburban house with men in tee shirt sin front. Shot from living room showing the street. Shot of three people having dinner in backyard, on a card table. CU of steak cooking on barbecue. 12. Title Card: Kingston, Jamaica. LS of Harbor. Several MS: tourists in market, walking down street with children in BG. Title Card: Banana Grower’s Hut,: Native man on bicycle passes burdened donkeys. South America. Title Card: On train from Port Limon to San Jose in Costa Rica: LS of tracks from back of train, LS of countryside, foliage covered mountains. Title Card: San Jose. LS of policeman on well-kept city street, old 40s cars, donkey pulling a cart with sticks, LS of Catholic feast , worshippers hold icon of Virgin Mary aloft. Row of donkeys with carts. Cable Car. Panama Canal Zone: Ladies walk along canal, ship in bg,. Gatun Power House. Tug on canal. Filled wineglass on bar, title rolls in “Bottoms up in Panama City”. Balboa, Panama. Native hut in Balboa. Return to New York City. LS of Statue of Liberty, downtown New York City - Brooklyn, Manhattan and Williams burg Bridges in BG.