Michigan Home Movies - Double Wedding, Christmas, First Communion, Shower, Vacation

Duration: 600 ft.

Genre: home movie

Year Published: 1960

Complete Record: Sylvia and Mary’s Wedding Title card for the double wedding that follows of two sisters. The wedding parties arrive in decorated cars, they pose with the bridesmaids and then the two brides head into the church. Nice homey church with traditional ceremony including two instead of one couple saying the vows. Priest addresses them each, then they have communion. They exit the church. Wild style letters on a Just Married sign. Shots of the cakes and people looking at the food. Husband and wife pose for the camera, and then the other husband and wife pose for the camera. Then all together they pose. They all eat. Various shots of people eating and enjoying themselves. The newlyweds kiss for the camera. People wave and are having a good time. More shots of the wedding cakes, including a young girl. Christmas time, nativity, star atop the tree or house. More night time nativity shots. Family opens presents, Santa shows up and dad checks Santa’s pants to see if this Santa is a boy or a girl. People laugh and open presents. More snowy shots of nativity and the decorated house. Shots of airplanes taking off at the airport. very close to the run way. more angles of airplanes. Woman in a park Shots of the woods. Mary’s first holy communion 5/5/68 -title card- People outside of church. Procession down the street and into the church with alter boys leading the way. Young girls in white dresses and vales like brides and young boys in suits and ties. Mary stands with her mother and a nun in front of the church. Mary and her brother. Parade down the street with mostly kids in the parade. Floats decorated and a fire engine leads the way. The theme is environmental based as there are signs stating keep Dearborn clean and stop the litterbugs. Tess and Bill’s shower - June 2, 1968 Lots of women and a few men gather in a hall with food and drink. They wear corsages and are dressed up quite nice. They open gifts of silverware and glasses. A long string of gifts all tied together. A huge frilly umbrella with flowers and lace. Tess and Bill give a big kiss. More of the communion procession. This time the cameras concentrates on the boys. Seaside town with woman who poses in cat-eye classes. Some shots of monuments in the town and a boy that is with them. Flowers that say protect our environment. Statues and Couchiching Park - golf. Close ups of statues. Totem Poll and sculpture of mother and child. Woman and boy stand outside of school building. Small bridge. boy runs over it. Mother and boy sit by a small stream.