Sumner
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Home movie portrait of a perfect American family with subtle tongue-and-cheek acted out scenes on gender roles. A man reads his newspaper while the woman mows the lawn. Another woman shoos him off the steps to go take over. Other footage is of a young couple picking strawberries, an older woman feeding chickens, the family eating watermelon behind a picket fence, and a man squeezing the women uncomfortably.
Credits
Fred Strauss (filmmaker)
Complete catalog record
Cfa collection: Margaret Conneely Collection
Subjects: Families; Sexism; City and town life; Farm life
Places: North America > United States
Language: English
Shot log: 00:00 - PAN rural homes, church, MLS cars parked in small downtown area, MLS Cape Cod house, FA young girl runs up to house, woman comes out, VS girl and woman playing catch; 01:39 - MS man and woman picking, eating strawberries in field, MS older woman joins them in garden to feed chickens; 03:16 - MS man on front steps reading newspaper, MS woman mowing grass, VS another woman comes out, takes paper, makes man mow lawn, CU women laughing; 04:35-06:36 - [film is red] PAN FA, CU men and women, young and old, eat watermelon behind a white picket fence, woman holds kitten, man hugs two of the women from behind, LS sunset over cornfields
Cfa elements: 250 feet
Cfa records: https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/4483
Subjects: Families; Sexism; City and town life; Farm life
Places: North America > United States
Language: English
Shot log: 00:00 - PAN rural homes, church, MLS cars parked in small downtown area, MLS Cape Cod house, FA young girl runs up to house, woman comes out, VS girl and woman playing catch; 01:39 - MS man and woman picking, eating strawberries in field, MS older woman joins them in garden to feed chickens; 03:16 - MS man on front steps reading newspaper, MS woman mowing grass, VS another woman comes out, takes paper, makes man mow lawn, CU women laughing; 04:35-06:36 - [film is red] PAN FA, CU men and women, young and old, eat watermelon behind a white picket fence, woman holds kitten, man hugs two of the women from behind, LS sunset over cornfields
Cfa elements: 250 feet
Cfa records: https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/4483
Sources
- Chicago Film Archives · record ↗ — title, year, creator, length, format, color, sound, genre, description, credits, catalog record, video
Record added 2026-11-08 21:25:08