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Contributor:  Kathleen Leno
Catalog No. 49A
Length:  1:51:57
Dates:  1970s, 1980s


Keyword Description:
Film dates to 1970s and 1980s and includes scenes from various locations. It starts in Rose Valley, South Dakota, 1976, with kids going down a hill in a wagon (see written description for detailed identification of family members). The next scenes are in South Dakota, including Mount Rushmore and Bear Country USA, an amusement park allowing people to drive cars near bears and wolves. This is followed by footage from another park in California, Lion Country Safari, which also allows visitor to drive through and see animals. The film then goes back to a waterfall in Rose Valley, followed by scenes at Nantucket in the summer, Elaine Mooney roller skating at the 1980 Junior Miss pageant at Nantucket High School, Tim Mooney's graduation in Wuainimi Bay, California, Elaine Mooney swimming in a pool in California, and Surfside and Dionis Beaches on Nantucket. Other footage includes Elaine Mooney and Levon Hilts in a basketball game, a vacation to Bermuda, the Old Great Point Lighthouse on Nantucket (the original lighthouse before it fell in a storm and was reconstructed), a family ski trip at King Grants Inn in New Hampshire, a demolition derby held on Nantucket, a trip to Alaska with footage of Ketchikan, Mendenholn Glacier, and salmon swimming upstream. The end of the film shows Rachel Day playing with pots and pans, Tim Mooney in his Coast Guard uniform in a Memorial Day parade, and more beach scenes from the early 1980s, including shots of people smoking. Footage also includes a 1976 graduation, some sky-writing, a man shingling a house, teenagers feeding seagulls, landscape shots from a plane and scenic views of a sunset and waterfalls.

Contributor:  Kathleen Leno
Catalog No. 49B
Length:  46:21
Dates:  1970s, 1980s


Keyword Description:
Begins with Wild West show, footage of zoo animals. Scenes that follow include San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, highway landscapes, kids sledding behind a jeep on a beach, ocean and beach footage (probably in Virginia), a Disney World trip that includes the parade of characters, a Mardi Gras parade (local, not in New Orleans), a snow skiing trip, some boating, and scenes of a baby with a dog, reading with parents, and other siblings dancing. (See written description for 49A for detailed identification of people in film.)