Home Movie: Kenneth Nettleton Collection: 001924 (silent)

Genre: home movie

Description:

Description: A wealthy family travels to France via steamship in 1928. Includes sequences of life aboard the vessel as it crosses the Atlantic Ocean, patrons at outdoor cafes in Paris, and visits to points of interest and gravesites from World War I.

title on film:
"France"

can notes:
"France. OK."

note found in can reads:
"France 1928? REN - EIN. Acquataria. Paris. Fontainebleau. Same trip as S[?]"

Reuse Statement: For information on reusing Prelinger Archives footage and obtaining written usage agreements, please visit www.prelinger.com.

Subjects: 1920s, Boats and boating, Social classes, Tourism, Cities, World War I

Tags: homemade title France; Cunard Line S.S. Aquitania brochure; luggage; taxicabs; bathroom sinks; toothbrush; filmed from a boat; passenger ships; looking through a porthole at water going by; smokestacks; aboard steamship; life boats; sailors; waves; ocean swells; walking on deck; sitting under striped awnings; deck chairs; lifeboat drill; wicker windproof cubbies; miniature golf; swimming; bathing suits; shipboard swimming pool; ocean swells; billowing clouds of smoke; World War I wounded soldiers; railroads; Eiffel Tower; sidewalk cafes; piers; Cafe de la Paix; bustling streets; long white aprons; drinking through a straw; dog puppets; electric bicycles; American Express, 11 rue Scribe, Paris; horse-drawn carriages; L'Opera, Grey Poupon advertising signs; public lavatories; filmed from a moving vehicle; bustling street life; Palace at Fontainbleau; canals; rivers; bucolic scenes; Meuse Canal; horse team pulling barge in canal; canal boat; horses; wooden cross grave marker for German soldier; Rheims Cathedral; American cemetery Meuse-Argonne; gun emplacements; Verdun cemetery; Belleau Wood; World War I battlefields; gravediggers; ocean liners; intertitles; snug; drinking beer a reading in a snug aboard a ship; interior pools on ship; Seine river; people drinking at cafes; waiters; street puppeteer; mustaches; man with dog puppet; American Express; street scenes; "Tabac" sign; washing clothes in river; graves; coffins; Great War

Film Sponsor:

Creator: Kenneth Nettleton

Credits:

Distributor:

Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Kenneth Nettleton Collection PC-0074, Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection

Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive

Production Date: 1928

Release Date:

Geographical Location: USA; Connecticut; France; Avalon, France; Domremy, France; Cherbourg, France; Fort Douamont, France; Romagne-Sous-Montfaucon, France

Genre/Form: home movie

Language: eng

Rights:

Film Format: 16mm film

Element: print, reversal

Color: b&w

Color Process:

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: plus circle, circle circle circle, plus square

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 425

Complete Record: Description: A wealthy family travels to France via steamship in 1928. Includes sequences of life aboard the vessel as it crosses the Atlantic Ocean, patrons at outdoor cafes in Paris, and visits to points of interest and gravesites from World War I. title on film: "France" can notes: "France. OK." note found in can reads: "France 1928? REN - EIN. Acquataria. Paris. Fontainebleau. Same trip as S[?]" Reuse Statement: For information on reusing Prelinger Archives footage and obtaining written usage agreements, please visit www.prelinger.com. Subjects: 1920s, Boats and boating, Social classes, Tourism, Cities, World War I Tags: homemade title France; Cunard Line S.S. Aquitania brochure; luggage; taxicabs; bathroom sinks; toothbrush; filmed from a boat; passenger ships; looking through a porthole at water going by; smokestacks; aboard steamship; life boats; sailors; waves; ocean swells; walking on deck; sitting under striped awnings; deck chairs; lifeboat drill; wicker windproof cubbies; miniature golf; swimming; bathing suits; shipboard swimming pool; ocean swells; billowing clouds of smoke; World War I wounded soldiers; railroads; Eiffel Tower; sidewalk cafes; piers; Cafe de la Paix; bustling streets; long white aprons; drinking through a straw; dog puppets; electric bicycles; American Express, 11 rue Scribe, Paris; horse-drawn carriages; L'Opera, Grey Poupon advertising signs; public lavatories; filmed from a moving vehicle; bustling street life; Palace at Fontainbleau; canals; rivers; bucolic scenes; Meuse Canal; horse team pulling barge in canal; canal boat; horses; wooden cross grave marker for German soldier; Rheims Cathedral; American cemetery Meuse-Argonne; gun emplacements; Verdun cemetery; Belleau Wood; World War I battlefields; gravediggers; ocean liners; intertitles; snug; drinking beer a reading in a snug aboard a ship; interior pools on ship; Seine river; people drinking at cafes; waiters; street puppeteer; mustaches; man with dog puppet; American Express; street scenes; "Tabac" sign; washing clothes in river; graves; coffins; Great War Film Sponsor: Creator: Kenneth Nettleton Credits: Distributor: Contributor: Prelinger Archives Source Collection: Kenneth Nettleton Collection PC-0074, Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive Production Date: 1928 Release Date: Geographical Location: USA; Connecticut; France; Avalon, France; Domremy, France; Cherbourg, France; Fort Douamont, France; Romagne-Sous-Montfaucon, France Genre/Form: home movie Language: eng Rights: Film Format: 16mm film Element: print, reversal Color: b&w Color Process: Sound or Silent: silent Film Soundtrack Type: mos Edge Code: plus circle, circle circle circle, plus square Frame Rate: 16 fps Length (feet): 425