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Contributor:  Jacqueline Croce
Catalog No. 50
Length:  1:31:05
Dates:  1960s, 1970s, early 1980s


Keyword Description:
Film beings with woman feeding a baby in 1962, followed by two teenage women playing with a doll, Christmas in 1962, including the house and decorations, then a baby playing with toys, a young girl figure skating in a backyard, a couple sitting in a living rooming talking and smoking, a young boy figure skating in the backyard, a young girl's First Communion, including the family posing for pictures and eating cake. The film continues with a couple trying to show a baby girl how to walk in a front yard and people posing for pictures. There is also footage of several birthdays, teenagers going to a prom, old men playing horseshoes, a kid with a Red Sox uniform on, kids sitting around the kitchen table doing homework, mining for asbestos, landscape as seen from a plane, some kind of men's group having an outing and playing baseball, bocce, horseshoes and eating. Unique footage includes parade footage from television with Ronald Reagan as one of the commentators.