Three Sister Islands
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Tape Master:2232
Catalog #:529795
Clip Number:529795-1
Orginal Film:Tape 1
Timecode:02:26:20 - 02:29:59
Location:Niagara Falls
Year Shot:1930 (Estimated Year)
Audio:No
Color:No
Headings:AGE GROUP/CHILDREN: Home Movies
DOMESTIC LIFE: Child Rearing
DOMESTIC LIFE: Family Life
DOMESTIC LIFE: Home Movies
FASHION: Children's
FASHION: Men's
FASHION: Women's
LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: Niagara Falls
RECREATION: Travel, Tourism, Sightseeing
RECREATION: Vacations, holidays
SCENICS: Waterfalls
Description:Three Sisters Islands - Candid look at family visiting Niagara Falls in the late 1920's/early 1930's. Good source for fashion of this era.

Niagara Falls

MS sign reading "Three Sister Islands" w/arrow pointing to the left. TLS family posing w/scenic river view behind them. MS fast moving water, pan up to wide LS choppy river water. Rear GV of people walking onto bridge. Wide LS people standing on boulder overhang of the Niagara River. GV/LS pan rapids & cascades of the Niagara River. Nice TLS tourists walking over pedestrian bridge, cute grade school girl in short sundress looks at the camera and smiles. POV following tourists over foot bridge. Low angle LS looking up at airplane flying overhead. Nice GVs of woman and her three children sitting on boulders w/cascading fall behind them. Wide LS pan rapids of the Niagara River, tourists are gatherer along river bank. LS cascades. Nice CU face of woman w/great 1920's era hairstyle w, a tight curl resting on her forehead. CU grade school aged boy seated on rocks waving. ECU young girl's face, pan to grade school aged girl. Nice MS man in fedora & bowtie posing in front of the raging river, he takes off his hat and takes a seat on the rocks w/his children. MSs man seated on rocks w/his children in front of the Niagara River. Nice MS of man & woman posing on rocks w/their children in front of the river. MS man in Panama hat & striped bowtie seated on rocks w/children. Wide LS/GV cascades of Niagara River. MS "Warning" sign telling visitors that defacing the Three Sister Bridge is a Misdemeanor.
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