| Trip to Bermuda, 1920s | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 1421 |
| Catalog #: | 373479 | |
| Clip Number: | 373479-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | WPA 137 | |
| Timecode: | ||
| Location: | Bermuda | |
| Year Shot: | 1920 (Estimated Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | ENTERTAINMENT/MOTION PICTURES: Amateur ENTERTAINMENT/MOTION PICTURES: Home Movies RECREATION: Travel, Tourism, Sightseeing | |
| Description: | Mouse doll animated to turn with little card (title) mechanical mouse flips, and the two dance. title ôA Trip to Bermuda - An Island Paradise.ö A finger lifts the flap and it says ôLeaving on the MONARCH OF BERMUDA.ö nteresting WS pan New York skyscrapers. Shots from moving boat of piers. CU passenger list - soft focus. Home Made title. CU passenger list with names legible. MS woman in heavy fur coat on deck of ship. Pan NY skyscrapers and piers from moving ship. Good shots of Staten Island ferries and other vessels on the water. SL Cunard liner BERENGARIA at pier. LS Statue of Liberty, CU baggage labels, brochures, etc. Sunrise from deck of ship. Bermuda viewed from deck of ship. Title says ôWith Straining Hawsers and Bands Playing We Landed at Hamilton.ö Views of downtown from the ship as it docks, sailors winding ropes - good shots. Street scenes with horse carriages. very good bow shot of MONARCH with horse and buggy passing in front. CU newspaper article on Notables arriving on the ship, with mention of the Altman family (the parents were playing in a bridge tournament). Woman and man on beach, wading in water. Modest bathing gear for man and woman alike, then four happy people skipping out of water towards camera. ô800 Pounds of Soup,ö which is a large turtle walking in the sand. title says ôWhy We Visited Hamilton Oftenö and shots of liquor bottles follow - this was Prohibition days. Woman enters bar (title says ôWhy Women Go Wrongö) and clowns around with bottles. Horse and buggy tour, shots of sightseeing along the roads of Bermuda. good harbor shots, with sailing ship, and departure of cargo liner identified as PANAMERICA. On deck shot of MONARCHÆs funnels. Shot from deck of tender boat being picked up, sailors hauling lines. Baggage being carried aboard. ôThe NORFOLK, BritainÆs Greatest Warshipö shots show 3-funnelled battleship in water, and good passing shot. MS sailors rowing lifeboat. Unfortunately fogged shots of arrival in New York. Some people shots usable, but longer views are overexposed. | |
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