Picnic Old Canal Metro Pictures
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Color home movie of a Metro Movie Club picnic in a metropolitan park. Women and children tend the grills with footage of everyone eating, talking, and drinking. The family sets up multiple cameras on tripods and record each other filming and taking snapshots.
Credits
Margaret Conneely (participant); John Conneely (participant)
Complete catalog record
Cfa collection: Margaret Conneely Collection
Subjects: Picnics; Amateur Film Clubs; Food
Places: North America > United States > Illinois > Chicago
Language: English
Shot log: 00:00 - MLS family picnic in park, woman turns corn on grill, MS, CU boy puts butter on rotisserie chicken, woman tends grill, MS people at picnic tables, CU corn and pork chops cooking on grill 02:45 - MS man and woman sit down, eat corn, pork chops, and baked potato, PAN people eating and talking at picnic, CU opening beer, CU man smoking cigar, CU cleaning grill, MS woman feeding toddler 06:50-08:56 - MS FA man looking through film camera, CU woman snapping pictures, MS man and girl goofing around for camera, MS woman (Margaret Conneely) setting up camera on tripod
Cfa elements: 200 feet
Cfa records: https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/2774
Subjects: Picnics; Amateur Film Clubs; Food
Places: North America > United States > Illinois > Chicago
Language: English
Shot log: 00:00 - MLS family picnic in park, woman turns corn on grill, MS, CU boy puts butter on rotisserie chicken, woman tends grill, MS people at picnic tables, CU corn and pork chops cooking on grill 02:45 - MS man and woman sit down, eat corn, pork chops, and baked potato, PAN people eating and talking at picnic, CU opening beer, CU man smoking cigar, CU cleaning grill, MS woman feeding toddler 06:50-08:56 - MS FA man looking through film camera, CU woman snapping pictures, MS man and girl goofing around for camera, MS woman (Margaret Conneely) setting up camera on tripod
Cfa elements: 200 feet
Cfa records: https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/2774
Sources
- Chicago Film Archives · record ↗ — title, year, length, format, color, sound, genre, description, credits, catalog record, video
Record added 2026-11-08 21:25:08