| Sledding in Central Park | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 2231 |
| Catalog #: | 529739 | |
| Clip Number: | 529739-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | Tape 1 | |
| Timecode: | 00:01:09 - 00:04:39 | |
| Location: | New York, NY | |
| Year Shot: | 1926 (Estimated Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | AGE GROUP/CHILDREN: Playing DOMESTIC LIFE: Family Life DOMESTIC LIFE: Home Movies ENTERTAINMENT/MOTION PICTURES: Home Movies FASHION: Winter LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA, New York, New York RECREATION: Parks WEATHER: Snow | |
| Description: | Sledding in Central Park- A candid view of old fashioned family fun, plus good insight into the winter fashions of the time. New York, NY MS pan of two kids coming down hill on old wooden sled with metal blades. Brief LS sledding hill. LS hill, pan to MS of two kids dressed in winter caps, ear muffs, waist length winter coats and boots up to their knees, they stumble as they walk in deep snow. MS pan of same kids tromping though deep snow drifts and toward camera. MS automobile as woman corrals the two children into the back seat, woman is wearing a coat w/fur lined collar and cuffs as well as a cloche hat. TLS pan as men in fedora hat zooms past camera on a sled, he rides belly side down w/a young girl on his back. TLS as man in cap sleds on his belly toward camera, a young boy in the foreground picks up his sled to move out of the way and start back up the hill. TLS pans of people sledding. LS several people at the hill. Several TLSs of both children and adults sledding down the hill, some come down two or three on a single sled. LS sledding hill packed w/families. MS pan of woman in coat w/fur collar walking past camera, pan right to young girl bending down to make a snowball, she then walks toward camera. MS back view of young boy walking as he carefully balances snow on a spoon or spatula. MSs two children sliding on ice toward camera. | |
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