HOWARD CHANDLER CHRISTY PAPERS, 1873-2001
Series IX. Films and Videotapes: ca. 1929 -
2001
Box
62
16 mm Film Reels 1-14
(see descriptions under
VHS Tapes 1-2 (copied from Reels 13-14)
Title: “Elise Ford and Howard Chandler Christy” [ca. 1930s-1940]
Donor: Holly Christina Longuski, May 2001
Time: 19 minutes, 20 seconds
Audio: No
Copy date:
Description: Combination of black & white and color 16mm film clips, not in
chronological order. Some home movies, filmed by Howard Chandler Christy
and Elise Ford, as well as newsreel clips. Topics include: Christy
painting Elise Ford; both attending publicity events involving Christy’s
artwork; Christy, Elise Ford, and daughter Holly as an infant at vacation home
in Vermont; Christy painting landscapes outdoors; Christy, Elise and Holly
displaying some of his landscape canvases.
VHS Tape 3
Title: “Christy Marker Dedication, May 3rd, 2001”
Donor: Helen Copley, Summer 2001
Time: approximately 20 minutes
Audio: Yes
Copy date: Summer 2001
Description: Scenes from the outdoor dedication ceremony for Christy marker in
Morgan County, Ohio, and the following reception and exhibition of Christy
artwork. In color.
Transferred from 16 mm reels #1-5
Title: See descriptions below
Donor: Jane
Conneen,
Time: Approximately 10 minutes total
Audio: None
Copied to DVD and DigiBeta:
Description
Black & white film clips of the following:
1) “Swimming pool people. Dec. 1929”
Views of large estate and pool, numerous people in semi-formal dress, one of which is Nancy Palmer Christy
2) “Picture of Mr. Eastman in office, n.d.”
Man in suit with glasses and gray hair, sitting and reading aloud
3)
“Beach, many children HCC in waves, 1 shot of
Beach scenes including Nancy Palmer Christy, Harmon Smith, Carolyn Chandler, Elise Ford, and Howard Chandler Christy
4)
“Baby?,
Unidentified baby, held by unidentified woman, in a bedroom
5) “Nancy – HCC at beach, organ grinder, Sept. 1936”
Filmed on the boardwalk, includes Nancy Palmer Christy, Elise Ford, Carolyn Chandler, Harmon Smith, and Howard Chandler Christy. Others present include organ grinder, monkey, and many on-lookers
Transferred from 16 mm reel #6
Title: “H.C. Christy Camp Scenes. Flaming Geyser July 24&30/ Aug. 6& 7”
Donor: Jane
Conneen,
Time: Approximately 15 minutes
Audio: None
Copied to DVD and DigiBeta:
Black & white film clips of the following scenes:
1) Camp scenes, including snow-capped mountains, rows of cabins, people viewing mountains through telescopes, large groups of people in semi-formal dress, Howard Chandler Christy smoking a pipe, Nancy Palmer Christy with a group, rivers flowing over rocks and waterfalls, many landscape scenes
2) Views of naval ship in the water, Nancy Palmer Christy, Howard Chandler Christy, and Natalie Chandler on shore, group scenes with military officers on board a ship, shot of a sign on ship reading “COMD’R W. F.LAFRENZ, U.S.N.”
3) Beautiful home and grounds overlooking ships in a river, groups of people in semi-formal dress including Nancy Palmer Christy and Natalie Chandler, scenes of people dancing the Charleston on the grass, walking through a garden, Howard Chandler Christy painting outdoors by a stream and smoking a pipe, Nancy Palmer Christy and Natalie Chandler dressed in overalls and working outside of a camp, sailors in rowboats in a river
Transferred from 16mm reel #7
Title: “Fish
Fry/Lindbergh Arriving at le Bourge,
Donor: Jane
Conneen,
Time: Approximately 20 minutes
Audio: None
Copied to DVD and DigiBeta:
Black & white film clips of the following scenes:
1) Social gathering on the grounds of a mansion, high above a river. Nancy Palmer Christy and others with walking sticks, with a dog near a fountain on grounds. Howard Chandler Christy smoking his pipe. Scene of the group on a parapet of the mansion. Scene of group playing croquet on the grounds, Nancy Palmer Christy sitting with a group, watching croquet game and smoking. Howard Chandler Christy sits to join group, excellent close-ups of both NPC and HCC.
2) Beach scene, Howard Chandler Christy in bathing suit by water’s edge with unidentified others.
3) Return to lawn scenes at a mansion, views of formal gardens, Nancy Palmer Christy sitting on a porch by large columns, overlooking the gardens.
4) Scene of dock with a yacht, Nancy Palmer Christy and Howard Chandler Christy boarding the yacht with a boating party. Yacht motors off, passing large homes on shore.
5)
Scene of yacht back at dock, passengers disembarking, name on
boat appears to be “Dec. Oats,
6) Two smaller rowboats with people being pulled behind the yacht with a rope tow, views of passengers on board again, including Howard Chandler Christy and daughter Natalie.
7) Rowboats are pulled ashore; fish fry scene commences on the banks of a wooded shore. Shot of Natalie holding fish in a dress coat with a fur collar. Nancy Palmer Christy holds fish wearing dress clothes and pearls.
8)
Newsreel footage entitled “Lindbergh’s Triumphant Arrival in
“Produced by William J. Ganz
Company,
-
“Le Bourget,
Scene of people at the airport with biplanes parked on the runways.
- “Giant searchlights illuminate the sky for our ‘Flying Ambassador’.”
Hundreds of people running in the beams of the spotlight.
- “After 33 hours and 30 minutes Lindbergh alights surrounded by the largest crowd ever assembled at le Bourget.”
Hundreds of people running, some carrying bicycles above their heads. Shot of Lindbergh standing next to the Spirit of St. Louis.
- “Vive l’Americain! Vive l’Americain!”
People rushing to see Lindbergh.
- “The next day – Lindbergh at the American Embassy.”
Lindbergh on a balcony, waving an American flag. Then view of him coming out of the building to crowds of well wishers, entering a car and driving away through the crowds of people.
-
“President Doumergue of
Lindbergh with two Frenchmen, Lindbergh wearing medal on his lapel, then walking with a group of men at the airport and standing in front of the Spirit of St. Louis.
- “My plan did it.”
Close up of Lindbergh’s face.
Transferred from 16mm reel # 8
Title: “Conte Rosso Genova at Sea/Lunch in an Italian garden”
Donor: Jane
Conneen,
Time: Approximately 15 minutes
Audio: None
Copied to DVD and DigiBeta:
Black & white film clips of the following scenes:
1) Large cruise ship sailing with mountains in the distance. Nancy Palmer Christy with various unidentified individuals and posing with a man in uniform who appears to be the ship’s captain. Shot of Howard Chandler Christy with binoculars and posing with the captain. Views of rough seas, the ship’s mast, and a rainbow over the water. Views of the shore and sailing into port, crowds on the deck. Good shots of Nancy Palmer Christy in furs and Howard Chandler Christy on deck.
[Note from Ser. V,
2) Views of a formal lunch in a garden. A large group of formally dressed people in attendance. Howard Chandler Christy is seen speaking with a man in military dress near a fountain, Nancy Palmer Christy is with a woman on a porch overlooking the town below. Close ups of a man in very formal military attire, Nancy Palmer Christy in a fur stole and a hat with feathers.
[Note from Ser. V,
Transferred from 16mm reel #9
Title: “Conte Rosso/Villa Madonna”
Donor: Jane
Conneen,
Time: Approximately 15 minutes
Audio: None
Copied to DVD and DigiBeta:
Black & white film clips of the following scenes:
1) Ships on water (lake?)
2)
Group of people, including Nancy Palmer Christy, walking along
a shoreline in the woods –
3) Another view of the above-noted shoreline with a cityscape in the foreground.
4)
A fishing party including Howard Chandler Christy, Nancy
Palmer Christy, and several other women.
5) View of the city and shoreline again, taken from a rooftop or cliff? Shots are very hazy with ships in the water in the distance.
6) Nancy Palmer Christy and Howard Chandler Christy walking in the country with a group of women. Views of the group bathing in a lake. Excellent shot of Howard on a diving board and jumping into the lake and swimming. Shot of Natalie Chandler with a bathing cap and swimming.
7) Howard Chandler Christy and two other men holding up a very large dead bird and exhibiting the wingspan for the camera.
8) Howard Chandler Christy painting a landscape by water’s edge.
9) View of a group on a porch.
10) Back to hot springs.
11) Back to group on porch, including Nancy Palmer Christy.
12) Women picking flowers.
13) Unidentified woman with a large eye bandage.
14) Howard Chandler Christy with a shotgun in one hand while wading in a river and casting a fishing rod in the other hand.
15)
View of cabins with a banner reading “
16) Views of a river from a cliff and a bridge. Shot of a car driving over this bridge with Nancy Palmer Christy and another woman riding on the running boards.
17) More group fishing scenes.
18) Nancy Palmer Christy holding up a shotgun and aiming.
Transferred from 16mm reel #10
Title: “Rhodes
Place/Flowers at Hotel Fountains/Flaming
Donor: Jane
Conneen,
Time: Approximately 15 minutes
Audio: None
Copied to DVD
and DigiBeta:
Black & white film clips of the following scenes:
1) Views of a river in the mountains, along a roadway, and Nancy Palmer Christy in a car.
2) Views of waterfalls in a forest, a creek running from the waterfall, a bridge in front of a waterfall.
3) Shot of a stone building with a waterfall in the background.
4) View of a man standing in front of a car with a waterfall in the background.
5) Outdoors at a mansion/hotel with men walking down stairs from a porch to beautiful grounds.
6) Shot of Howard Chandler Christy walking down stairs.
7) Close up of Nancy Palmer Christy with fuschia flowers in her hair.
8) Scene with two little boys and dogs playing on the grounds
9) Howard Chandler Christy in formal gardens with many rose bushes and fountains, other people seen walking the grounds.
10) Views of a beach shoreline with cliffs and trees and shots of the ocean.
11) Nancy Palmer Christy dressed in fur in front of a hotel?
12)
Nancy Palmer Christy arranging flowers – very dark scenes,
hard to see floral arrangements, but a very good close up of
13) View of a large building under construction.
14)
Back to
15) Howard and Nancy Christy with a blonde woman posing and walking in the woods near a creek, over wooden bridges.
16) Shot of a dog in river.
17) Shot of Nancy Palmer Christy holding the wet dog, then of her floating in the river and holding onto a large boulder.
18) Views back at the hotel
19)
Nancy Palmer Christy and Natalie
Transferred from 16 mm reel #11
Title: “Deer Drive/needs repairing/Thorne Place/Swimming Hole/ Ferry to Frisco/ m train to S.P./R.R.”
Donor: Jane
Conneen,
Time: Approximately 15 minutes
Audio: None
Copied to DVD
and DigiBeta:
Black & white film clips of the following scenes:
1) Palm trees on a beach
2) Groups of men in the woods during a deer hunt, horses, hunting dogs, and rifles. Women in riding gear, including Natalie Chandler and Nancy Palmer Christy, sharing a picnic. Howard Chandler Christy present at hunt as well. Shots of the slain deer hanging and carried to cars.
3) Nancy Palmer Christy riding a horse.
4) Howard Chandler Christy with a pipe and rifle
5) Views of cabins, including a young boy and girl.
6)
Ferryboat named “
7) Followed by scenes of Nancy Palmer Christy and the same woman riding a train in the same outfits [later that day?]. Views of landscape, fields, farms with cattle, a train station, river, and mountains covered in snow in the background.
8) Nancy Palmer Christy and unidentified women displaying a large animal skin [deer?] and Natalie Chandler in a horse drawn buggy with two other women.
9) Nancy Palmer Christy standing next to a woman on a horse.
10) Women dressed for the cold, walking outdoors, a view of a covered bridge.
11) A car with Nancy Palmer Christy crossing a river on a ferry
12) View of women on a rooftop, one carrying a black dog.
13) Blonde woman wearing overalls and wading in a river.
14) Shot of a hawk in a cage
15) Scenes of fish jumping in a river
16) Same blonde woman swimming in a river with Howard Chandler Christy.
17) Nancy Palmer Christy and blonde woman walking in bathing suits
Transferred from 16 mm reel # 12
Title: Swimming & Canoeing/Models/Painting
Donor: Jane Conneen
Time: Approximately 15 minutes
Audio: None
Copied to DVD and DigiBeta:
Black & white film clips of the following scenes:
1) Nancy Palmer Christy and a group walking on a bridge in the woods, views of the river, Howard Chandler Christy in overalls.
2) Women in bathing suits in the river, including Nancy Palmer Christy and Natalie Chandler.
3) Nancy and Howard Chandler Christy exchanging kisses, shots of Howard jumping into the water and waving from a bridge.
4) A group drinking soda from bottles.
5) Howard Chandler Christy painting besides a river (a nude of a woman in a river), Natalie Chandler and blonde woman watch, Nancy Palmer Christy displays a canvas (blonde woman is model for nude in the painting).
6) Views of tents and cabins.
7) Swimming scenes again of Howard Chandler Christy, Natalie Chandler and the blonde model.
8) Scenes of Natalie and blonde model fishing.
9) Scenes of canoeing with Howard Chandler Christy, Natalie Chandler, and models.
10) Natalie, unidentified woman, and Howard Chandler Christy displaying caught fish on sticks.
11) Nancy Palmer Christy feeding ducks with other women near a pond.
12) More canoeing scenes.
Transferred from 16 mm reels #13 & 14, respectively
Title: Untitled
Donor: Jane
Conneen,
Time: Approximately 20 minutes, combined
Audio: None
Copied to DVD and DigiBeta:
Black & white and color clips combined. Duplication of scenes in VHS Tape No. 1-2, “Elise Ford and Howard Chandler Christy.” Higher quality resolution on DVD copies.
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