[Home Movies: Medicus Collection: Manhattan and Picnic]

[Home Movies: Medicus Collection: Manhattan and Picnic]

Amateur Cinema League leader Various CUs of young boys, ages approx. 9-12, one in sailor suit, talking to each other against paper background (this may be some kind of dramatic dialogue) Pans between the boys talking Three children in hats and overcoats explore the area along Manhattan’s (New York) Hudson River shoreline, uptown, on a cold day They run through a park looking like Riverside Park or the hilly parts of Central Park On the waterfront, a cobblestoned pier area, they enter a hotdog and cigar shed They stand on a pier looking over at New Jersey and wave at a tugboat They walk down a gangplank to a barge that is a cigar store and small restaurant, but do not go in (Coca-Cola signs visible on barge) They play and pose in an old cart filled with scrap metal They climb stairway to a wooden bridge over the New York Central Railroad tracks on the West Side, looking down at a steam engine passing underneath A sailing ship moored offshore, four masts In a hilly park, on the stairway and paths (Grant’s Tomb?) Children looking down at train passing along tracks Old woman sitting in park reading newspaper, blowing in the wind, looking back at camera Adult golfers (where?) film is scratched and stressed here, and stops in gate – 20 sec. of inverted still frame Pan over large mansion (where?) Young woman (mother or aunt) and much younger boy Man blowing up rubber ball for kids to play with Iris out into picnickers with box lunches Picnickers (adults) fiddling with campfire, sitting around MCU young boy eating a sandwich in an intentionally messy manner VS (sequence) Young boy in shorts playing on and around steam shovel, pushing levers, walking out on boom, taking risks (there is a large building in background – can this be on West side of Manhattan?) Other boys join him in playing on steam shovel MCUs Adult picnickers recline on grass, all trying to fit onto one cushion (old car seat?) as a joke; they look at camera and address cameraperson CU picnickers looking at ca

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