Home Movie: The Chelsea Plantation Club Hunt
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In this 1930 home movie (soundtrack added) filmed by Charles Peet (1903-1945), join a hunting trip with the Chelsea Plantation Club. The Chelsea Plantation Club was a private hunting club that used the Chelsea plantation property in Jasper County. The young woman seen would be Peet's wife, Georgiana Mary Slade Peet. I believe the older mustachioed man to be railroad exec George Theron Slade, Peet's father in law.
The last song's lyrics do contain a couple of dated offensive terms; however I found the song provided additional historical contexts of peoples general attitudes and views of the times.
The plantation house burned down in 1936, eventually being rebuilt by a new owner. I'm not sure who "The General" at the end would be. Perhaps the head of the club? Leave a comment if you know!
The Nature Conservancy recently purchased the property, aiming to make it accessible to the public. https://www.nature.org/en-us/newsroom/chelsea-south-carolina/
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Went through and adjusted contrast/exposure scene-by-scene. From 00:29 to 3:58 there is a intermittent 'flash' on the right edge from light getting on exposed film. I did everything I could to mitigate it including manually doing "frame replacement" (blends prior and next frame) on the worst outliers.
Songs from Library of Congress Jukebox, with timing adjustments and light audio restoration done:
I'm going back to Carolina - Collins and Harlan
If I stay away too long from Carolina - Art Hickman's Orchestra
Carolina Sunshine - Sterling Trio
The last song's lyrics do contain a couple of dated offensive terms; however I found the song provided additional historical contexts of peoples general attitudes and views of the times.
The plantation house burned down in 1936, eventually being rebuilt by a new owner. I'm not sure who "The General" at the end would be. Perhaps the head of the club? Leave a comment if you know!
The Nature Conservancy recently purchased the property, aiming to make it accessible to the public. https://www.nature.org/en-us/newsroom/chelsea-south-carolina/
*Please contact regarding usage*
Went through and adjusted contrast/exposure scene-by-scene. From 00:29 to 3:58 there is a intermittent 'flash' on the right edge from light getting on exposed film. I did everything I could to mitigate it including manually doing "frame replacement" (blends prior and next frame) on the worst outliers.
Songs from Library of Congress Jukebox, with timing adjustments and light audio restoration done:
I'm going back to Carolina - Collins and Harlan
If I stay away too long from Carolina - Art Hickman's Orchestra
Carolina Sunshine - Sterling Trio
Sources
- YouTube channel: 16mm Time Machine · video ↗ — title, genre, description, video
Record added 2026-06-22 12:43:32