Metadata
WORK ID: NEFA 23006 (Master Record)
Title | Year | Date |
USA (10) MAY 11TH 1958 | 1958 | 1958-01-01 |
Details
Original Format: Standard 8 Colour: Colour Sound: Silent Duration: 27 mins 5 secs Credits: John Scott Forsyth Genre: Home Movie Subject: Travel Family Life |
Summary A home movie produced by John Scott Forsythe that featuring his wife Joanna, daughter Rosemary and sons Angus and toddler Richard in or around the family Upper East Side Manhattan apartment. Joanna taking her son Richard to Central Park on a number of occasions to play in a playground while John plays a round of golf with friends. The film features Broadway lit up at night with colourful neon signs and Angus taking his brother around New York City crossing the Williamsburg Bridge into Brooklyn and buying a pizza at a local pizza-parlour. The final part of the film features a school sports day as well as possibly a debutant ball where young women are presented on a stage to family and friends. |
Description
A home movie produced by John Scott Forsythe that featuring his wife Joanna, daughter Rosemary and sons Angus and toddler Richard in or around the family Upper East Side Manhattan apartment. Joanna taking her son Richard to Central Park on a number of occasions to play in a playground while John plays a round of golf with friends. The film features Broadway lit up at night with colourful neon signs and Angus taking his brother around New York City crossing the Williamsburg Bridge into...
A home movie produced by John Scott Forsythe that featuring his wife Joanna, daughter Rosemary and sons Angus and toddler Richard in or around the family Upper East Side Manhattan apartment. Joanna taking her son Richard to Central Park on a number of occasions to play in a playground while John plays a round of golf with friends. The film features Broadway lit up at night with colourful neon signs and Angus taking his brother around New York City crossing the Williamsburg Bridge into Brooklyn and buying a pizza at a local pizza-parlour. The final part of the film features a school sports day as well as possibly a debutant ball where young women are presented on a stage to family and friends.
Three women, a man and toddler come down a set of steps outside a house. In a field a group of boys practice hitting a ball with a baseball bat, a young woman takes a few swings at the ball. Inside the house the women play with the toddler.
In a playground inside a Central Park a woman pushes the toddler on a set of swings, she helps him climb the steps of a slide before he comes down. She rocks him on a seesaw before he rides the swing again. She carries him along a path, and he plays happily in a sandpit with a number of other children.
At a car wash a man uses a jet cleaner to clear the rear of a car as it slowly moves along a conveyor into the wash itself Coming out the other side two men use cloths to polish the now clean car.
Two women, a man and the toddler walk through a busy park past a number of decorative flowerbeds. The women hold the child’s hand, and he looks at the flowers and climbs a set of steps. The woman speaks with another couple outside their home, a young boy and girl stand nearby. The girl helps the boy ride a tricycle.
A group of men play a round of golf on a course, in the distance a large building possibly a hotel linked to the club.
The toddler plays happily in the sink while being bathed. The film changes to show various coloured neon signs lighting up Broadway at night including large neon advertising hoardings for Budweiser beer and Life magazine.
Two women and an older man stand or sit on the veranda of a large house. The women walk down the path away from the house changing to one of them walking with the toddler along the road outside the family apartment building in New York City. Back at the playground inside Central Park she helps him to the top of the slide, nearby a man at the controls of a remote-controlled vehicle.
Back home the toddler plays with a globe changes to show pedestrians crossing a busy intersection. A boy pushes the toddler in a pushchair along a roadway, in the background the Brooklyn Bridge. A policeman passes the pair as they stand on a street curb, they cross and walk along a busy street. They walk along a path parallel to the roadway leading onto the Williamsburg Bridge passing a large billboard on a nearby building for Isaac Gellis Kosher Delicatessen. The two walk along a footpath across the East River, they stop to look out on the New York skyline and Brooklyn Bridge in the distance. The two continue their walk through the city where the boy buy’s the toddler an ice cream from a small outlet or café. They pass the Brooklyn Paramount Cinema along University Plaza in Brooklyn where the Charlton Heston movie ‘The Ten Commandments’ is playing. They ride a bus or cable car back across the East River, the Empire State Building through the mist in the distance. The boy walks into Pizzeria Sorrentina and comes out carrying a large pizza box. He walks past children playing in the street.
Back inside Central Park the woman watches the toddler play in the sandpit. The film changes to a school sports day and various boys taking part in the long-jump, two women and the toddler watch from stands nearby. Adults stand around chatting while on the track a relay race. A large group of family and friends gather outside a building.
Cars drive past the family’s apartment building changes to a number of women on long white dresses standing on a stage. They begin to applaud as a number of them come forward to be presented with something. Walking in pairs they make their way along the aisle towards the stage, others coming off leaving the auditorium. They all pass an audience of men and women. The audience chat amongst themselves both inside as well as out.
Two boys play about on the balcony of the family apartment, the film ends on a man sitting in a recliner nearby.
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