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Title on Reel (transcribed from original)
On the Farm - Byrd Park and Scenes Here and There
Date Created
1929/1931
Reel Format
16mm
Reel Description
This film reel contains footage of people and events in and around Richmond including:
- Individuals including children watching ducks and swans at a lake, some sit on benches. Likely Byrd Park.
- Exterior of a house with children and cats
- Adult individual reading a book to two young children on the porch step of a residential building
- Five children laying on sleds with residential buildings in the background
- Children pulling one another on sleds
- Individuals, adults and children, ice skating and sledding on a frozen lake with buildings in the background
- Individual sitting in front of a frozen foundation in Monroe Park with Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in the background
- Nine individuals, including children, potentially a multigenerational family, standing in front of an automobile with a picket fence between them and the camera
- The same group in what appears to be a church graveyard
- A group of approximately 13 individuals, including children, potentially a multigenerational family, standing in two rows outdoors with flora in the background. Several dogs are also visible.
- One adult individual, three children, and three dogs walk through a field
- A dog chewing an object on an ottoman outdoors with a residential building partially visible in the background
- Two individuals lifting steel beams out of a flatbed truck on a city street, a third individual watches
- Partial exterior of a building
- Cows in a field
- Six individuals, including two children, sitting on porch steps, each holding a puppy. Two more puppies are on the ground
- The same group watches the puppies in a field
- A group of piglets feeding from a pig
- Field of haystacks
- Cows under a tree in a field
- Farm equipment and a barn
- Hay being loaded into barn via conveyor and horse drawn wagons by three adult individuals, another adult and two children observe
- Cows in a field
- The same hay being loaded into barn via conveyor by three individuals
- Horse drawn carts in a field
- Individuals, including children, swimming in a lake
- Three individuals sunbathe in a clearing wearing swimsuits while a fourth picks up garbage with a trash picker
- Individuals slides down a slide into a lake, others swim in the lake
- Individuals sitting on towels on the grass in their bathing suits. A sign on a structure reads "No Bathing On Sunday, 9AM-2PM
- Panning footage of individuals swimming in the lake
- An individual does a bridge pose
- Six children stand on a sidewalk wearing costumes
- Children floating using inner tubes in a lake
- Two individuals and a dog in the front yard and on the sidewalk of a residential building
- Street scene of traffic and pedestrians, automobiles and streetcars go by, and a traffic conductor
- Automobiles driving down a street in front of a building with "Retail Store 913 E. Main Street" painted on the side, with an individual conducting traffic
- An individual closes a fence on farmland
- A lakeshore with boats and buildings
- Footage of lakeside buildings, boats, and docks filmed from a moving boat
- A boat passes the camera, an individual holds a handful of fish towards the camera
- Footage of a boat in open water
- Close up footage of individuals on a boat
- Water with views of boats, shores, and swimmers
- A swimmer plays with a dog on the shore
- Swimmers filmed from the shore
- Automobiles parked near the beach
- An adult individual and three children stand in front of a residential building
- Two children standing outdoors, the one on the left holds two kittens
- An adult individual and two children walk down a sidewalk
- A fenced in garden with residential buildings in the background
- Neighborhood shots of gardens, children with cats
- City street scenes with pedestrians, street cars, automobiles, road construction, and laborers
Runtime
00:09:19
Personal Name Subject
Stilson, Harris, 1868-1934
Topical Subject
Monroe Park (Richmond, Va.); Automobiles; Cable cars (Streetcars)
City/Location
Richmond (Va.)
Genre
black-and-white films (visual works)
Local Genre
moving image
Type
Moving Image
Digital Format
video/mov
Language
eng
Rights Statement URL
Rights
This material is in the public domain in the United States and thus is free of any copyright restriction. Acknowledgment of Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries and the Harry Stilson Richmond Collection as a source is requested.
Collection
Harris H. Stilson Films Richmond film collection, circa 1929-1931
Source
Harris H. Stilson Films Richmond film collection, circa 1929-1931, M 575, Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University.
File Name
m575_stilson_002.mov
Disciplines
Film and Media Studies | Public History | Social History | United States History