Home Movie: Dr. W.J. Kibler Collection: 000989 (silent)

Description: 1940s family with two young boys play with their new fluffy white puppy named "Snowball" in the yard, playing horseshoes as well. Scenic tours of Virginia and Washington D.C. including a visit to see the oldest Arbor Vitae tree in the world (before it died in 1980).

note on can:
"#3-Beach-Pt. Abino-Decoration Day-; 1940 Trip to Higby's; 1940; Trip to Roanoke in 41 April with boys and Williamsburg; Mt. Vernon & Washington"

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Subjects: 1940s, Tourism, Children, Human-animal relationships, Road trips

Tags: puppies; boys playing with white samoyed puppy; fluffy dog; boys playing in yard; homemade titles; "Snowball Born April 10th 1940 Came to Boys Sunday May 19th" written in chalk; "1940 Memorial Day Holzworth" title; two children carrying a third; family clowning for camera; smoking; pipes; man pitching horseshoes; boat on a trailer; saddle shoes; matching outfits; big truck wreck; car accidents; upside down trailer, cargo spilled; produce; farmstands; Joe Di Fini vegetable market; The New Gould Hotel; boy with tray; aprons; kid with wig; pies; sunsets; bathing suits; row boats; sailboats; summer camps; Junior Counselor t-shirt; tennis; tipis; cowboy outfit; costumes; lassos; chaps; lakeside cottages; boy in coat, suit, tie with portable radio; Salt Petre Cave; Arbor Vitae tree; boy walking towards "Men" room in woods; Hotel Patrick Henry; beaches; waves; horses; gardens; carriage; Colonial Williamsburg; Colonial houses; pillories; Raleigh Tavern; stocks; Williamsburg Restoration Archaeological Museum; roadside picnic; family drinking from bottles of milk by road; Mount Vernon; Hotel Hay-Adams; feeding squirrels in park; White House; view from Washington Monument; Reflecting Pool; Lincoln Memorial; temporary government buildings; high angle views; Skyline Drive title in chalk

Film Sponsor:

Creator: Kibler Family

Credits:

Distributor:

Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Dr. W.J. Kibler Collection PC-0359, Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection

Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive

Production Date: 1940-05-19; 1941-04

Release Date:

Geographical Location: USA; Virginia; Natural Bridge, Virginia; Williamsburg, Virginia; Washington, D.C.; Mount Vernon, Virginia

Genre/Form: home movie

Language: eng

Rights:

Film Format: 16mm film

Element: reversal

Color: b&w, color

Color Process: Kodachrome

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: circle circle, square square

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 492