Earl C. Norton Home Movies

Genre: home movie

Year Published: 1940

Complete Record: 1. (beginning of this reel does not appear to be home movie material: male lion in wooded area fights with pack of DOGs. Man in tuxedo and top hat pulls things out of his car, makes funny faces, looks like it could be from a 1910s - 1920s silent slapstick comedy. Short animated clip of a monkey chasing Felix the Cat around.) Home movie: two women walking around what looks like university or boarding school campus. Group of cheerful young men in suits assembling on steps of building for a photo. Shot of campus buildings. Football players warming up and practicing on field. Football game. (More non-home movie footage: animated Popeye and Olive Oyl battle a waterfall. Olive Oyl holds on while Popeye swims up the falls. He makes it to land, and Olive super-extends her leg to him and uses her arms to climb her leg to safety). 2. Scenes from cottage on lake. 3 seniors, in old-style one-piece bathing suits wading in lake. Man makes humorous strong man poses on the beach. Young boy swimming vigorously. Young boy paddling row boat, EXT shots of cottage on lake. 3 young adults under umbrella on beach, 1 seems to be deaf, using sign language. EXT Ludwig Apartments. Man and woman on horseback, wave at camera. Woman holding plate of vegetables (?) signs (sign language) to camera. Kids pull boat ashore. Older folks with swim caps playfully splash each other in the water. Man with kids dive and splash in the water. Man signs at the camera. People sunbathing on dock. Boy wading in inner tube. 3. Man, boy, and DOG in front of suburban house. Boy shows man (his father?) something attached to his pants with a small chain. Two teenaged boys with younger boy wave at camera, dressed in typical 1950s “Leave It To Beaver” shirts and sweaters. Man with another older man wave at camera. Older man with senior woman in apron (the grandmother?) smiling and waving. The two older men with the grandmother, waving and goofing around. Man in the middle communicates something to camera with sign language. Older man and boy churn ice cream (?), man uses sign language to communicate with the boy. Boy licks the blades of ice cream maker. Boys playing football in the street. CU happy boy’s face, CU man, MS middle aged woman in front of fountain in yard. Woman, older boy and younger boy in yard, using sign language, wave and salute to camera. 4. woman in forest. Shots of woods and parkland. Very dark.