A home movie produced by John Scott Forsyth that mainly features his family living in their Upper East Side apartment in New York City. The film features the family ice-skating, possibly in Central Park and enjoying a baseball game, possibly the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium. They take a trip to Philadelphia, visiting the New York Botanical Gardens as well as a trip into the countryside. The film also features a school sports day featuring daughter Rosemary who is filmed taking part in a...

A home movie produced by John Scott Forsyth that mainly features his family living in their Upper East Side apartment in New York City. The film features the family ice-skating, possibly in Central Park and enjoying a baseball game, possibly the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium. They take a trip to Philadelphia, visiting the New York Botanical Gardens as well as a trip into the countryside. The film also features a school sports day featuring daughter Rosemary who is filmed taking part in a number of sporting events including a game of softball game. As well as family activities, the film also records a number of visits made to or by the Forsythe’s to friends living in the New York area. A a boy carrying an American football and a woman cross a bridge and making their way through a park, possibly Central Park. He throws the ball towards the camera. On a large field the boy is joined by a friend and they throw or kick the football to each other. Sitting on park bench the woman wipes sweat from her son’s forehead. The two of them walk through the park with the Triborough Bridge in the background. The woman and girl skate arm-in-arm around a busy ice ring. The boy joins them, and they skate happily around the ring. The three of them sit at a café table eating a meal followed by views of two sea lions in an enclosure, possibly Central Park Zoo. The family walks along 8th Street in Manhattan and go inside their apartment building. Over the entrance is an awning on which is written ‘Eighty-Five East End Avenue’. At Philadelphia, the family walking around the Old City District along a number of colonial style streets before coming down the steps of the Benjamin Franklin Institute. The family walks along another busy street and standing beside a parked car. This is followed by the woman and girl walking along a path beside the sea or a lake. On a beach the boy and girl walk along the sand and play on the rocks, the boy eats an apple. The family are joined by a group of others all sitting in the stands of a baseball stadium eating and drinking. Below them on the field a game is underway. Along a street in New York City the family past a building over which is an awning with writing in it that reads ’55 Riverview South’. Beside the Hudson River they watch as the New York Harbour Ferry ‘Welfare’ crossing the water towards them. Once docked they climb aboard and take a journey. On a piece of waste ground beside a number of warehouses the family throw a baseball around, the Hell Gate Bridge can be seen in the distance. At the New York Botanical Gardens the family get off the ‘The Floral Flyer’ tram and sit on an outside table at a café eating cake. A group of boys stand around a pond and the family walks through the gardens. The boy and girl climb down a rocky slope and throw rocks into a stream or pond. At a rural location, the family sit beside river enjoying a picnic with an older woman. They go for a walk past a number of brightly coloured houses and farm buildings. Beside a hand pump in a field the children take turns pump the force rod. In a field girls wearing blue tops and black shorts take part in various school sports day events watched by their parents sitting in stands nearby. A sack race is the first race featured followed by skipping and a game of softball. The woman and boy walk across the pitch, a girl jumps towards them still inside her sack. General views of the girls doing sports in the field while their parents stand around chatting and enjoying a picnic. Sitting in a semi-circle a number of girls come forward and are presented with a certificate by an older woman, possibly their Headmistress. All the girls stand up and shake the woman’s hand before jumping around in excitement. A number of boy all wearing dark blue sweatshirts and shorts sit beside a wooden stand. Several men organise the boys into lines along a track before they part in a number of races beginning with the boys having to race on ‘all fours’. This is followed by a sack race. After the racing, the men organise the boys into teams and they play softball. A young woman coming out of a Manhattan apartment building wearing an elegant long white dress. She poses and waves at the camera. The film changes to the family cross a busy road and going inside a swimming pool, about the entrance are a number of large neon signs, the largest of which reads ‘Day-Night Bathing. New Oakland Pool’. Inside the family and other people in bathing costumes swim and dive into an outdoor pool. In the grounds of a large house a number of children sit beside a seesaw, the adults stand nearby chatting and relaxing. A small girl drinks a glass of orange juice followed by two boys playing badminton. Two men come over and also begin to play badminton. As the adults sit in the shade under a tree, two boy’s pull a third who is sitting in an American Flyer. By a lake the group of adults and children splash and swim about followed by one of the men spraying down the young girl with a hose. Several well-dressed men and women sit on the balcony of an apartment drinking and chatting, the New York skyline in the background. On the street below a man opens a car door and looks up at the camera. The film changes to show the family with friends enjoying a barbeque. A man wearing a checked shirt and apron tends to the fire. He cleans the grill followed by him flipping a beef burger. They all pick their own salad and dressings. A group of adults relax together in a large garden drinking and chatting. Two young girls in matching dresses appear followed by a small boy being carried by another woman. Around a table they enjoy a meal. Two small children swim in a lake watched over by a woman. The film ends with the two young girls seen previously walking across the rocky shoreline.