Home Movie: Janet Dill Collection: 004047 (silent)

Description: Wintertime activities with the Dill family including a road trip on US Highway 9 in New York State; cutting down a Christmas tree, Christmas dinner, snow shoveling, and more.

Can notes: "A8 / Dec 1956, Trip to Hadley for Tree. Christmas. Snow shoveling. At the Pott's."

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Subjects: 1950s, Holidays, Leisure and recreation, Families, Domestic life, Road trips, Celebrations and ceremonies

Tags: snow; brick houses; winter; driving POVs down slushy roads in Northeast U.S.; upstate New York; Circle View Garden; "9N and Route 22 Visit Fort Ticonderoga" billboard; image extends between perforations; children pushing car out of snow; family hunting for Christmas tree; Malta Inn driveby; upstate New York roadside culture on U.S. Highway 9 viewed from moving car in winter; National Museum of Racing; Mt. Royal Motel; "See Indian Village at Lake George" billboard; filmed from a moving vehicle; "Petrified Sea Gardens" billboard; "Welcome to Saratoga Springs" sign; "Sulphur and Mud Baths" sign; "The Saratoga Spa" sign; Victoria Hotel; driving POV through Saratoga Springs; Christmas decorations; bare trees; cutting down a Christmas tree; Weimaraner; dogs; jockey uniforms; holiday gatherings; holiday dinners; golf clubs; opening Christmas presents; model trains; railroads; shoveling snow; cats; fireplaces; kitchens; person wearing scarf over head and lighting cigarette while sitting in fireplace; domestic interiors; homemade titles; boys in plaid shirts waving at camera; signs and billboards along snowy road; unwrapping Christmas presents; matching outfits; jockey skit; goofing for camera; squinting at camera lights; lifting glasses at dinner table; toasting; dinner plates on laps; man cooking in kitchen' "Welcome to Luzerne Warren County The Van Duynes Guests" sign; boys pushing station wagon in snowy driveway; Weimaraner dog sitting on floor; "Xmas Day 1956" title; "Meanwhile Back at the Depot" title; playing with model railroad; shoveling snow; lighting cigarettes; man preparing food in kitchen

Film Sponsor:

Creator: Janet Dill

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Distributor:

Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Janet Dill Collection PC-0060, Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection

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

Production Date: 1956-12-23; 1956-12-24; 1956-12-25

Release Date:

Geographical Location: USA; Hadley, New York; New York; Saratoga Springs, New York; Warren County, New York; Saratoga County, New York; Luzerne, New York; Adirondack Park, New York

Genre/Form: home movie

Language: eng

Rights: Copyright by Josh Morton. Film appears here by his permission.

Film Format: 8mm film

Element: original

Color: color

Color Process: Kodachrome

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: circle

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 296