Title:
Robert Bishop home movies
Record Group Number:
RG5774.MI
Collection:
Bishop, Robert
Contributing Institution:
History Nebraska; https://history.nebraska.gov/
Date:
c.1934-1941
Description:
16mm home movies shot by Robert Bishop of Lincoln, Nebraska, c.1934-1941. Includes rural and agricultural scenes (cornhusking contest, livestock, machinery) and some travel scenes with Native Americans. Reel 1. Glacier National Park, Native Americans, Train Station, auto tour through the mountains, tourist bus, rock slide, footage from moving car, tourists at a Lake. Seattle, pier, steam ship, SS Northwestern, port with lots of ships, train, shoreline, footage shot from moving train, British Columbia, fishery, totem poles, Alaska?, iceberg, and unloading a ship. Reel 2. Glacier National Park, bridge and dam, waterfall, Native Americans, hotel inside the park [typical log structure], tourists taking photographs of river and trees, Native American ceremony for benefit of the tourists, civilians visiting a Navy ship, laundry drying on a boat, bear in chains, officers at attention, Multanoma Falls, Columbia Gorge, Oregon, Princess Cathleen [passenger liner], Train, man posing on some rock formations, and a man carrying a camera. Reel 3. Family, farm/barn, pigs and cattle, two men and a bull, Painter Ranch - haying crew, Ross farm - sheep, automobiles, young people in front of a brick house, farm house and buildings, Mrs. Spanoler, a corn bin, Mr. and Mrs. Fiend Walker - Lancaster, more pigs, Morgan County, Colorado, Mr. and Mrs. Pontiac, Coastland City, beach and people, view of street from above street level, trolly cars, long expansion train bridge and mountains, train, Mt. Robinson - Canadian Rockies, boat ride across a lake, golf, wheat picker, city street, a capitol building, and automobiles. Reel 4 [color]. Battle of Bang boards, men picking corn, state farm papers, magazines, annual banquet, Theodore Schaefer with winning silver set, November 3, 1941, sunrise, three farmers, water tower, cars on a paved rural road, state corn husking contest, Goodyear Blimp, and other blimps, horses, tractors and trailers, band, Minnesota Farmer 4th, Carlson - Iowa 3rd, Klein - Illinois 2nd, Wise - Illinois wins, over 45 bushels husked, farm land, more blimps, tractors, weighing trailers, Governor Dwight, auger of corn, singers, and Jim Edwards presents awards. Reel 5. School house, principal, farm fields and house, buildings, machinery, pigs, cattle, little boy by a gate, horse drawn machinery, family, well, fields, couple, dog in a chair, barn and buildings, horses, large hay stacks, shelter belt, haystacks, and livestock. Reel 6. Farm, corn bins, cattle, pigs, farmer with chickens, farmer in cornfield, haystack, family, old photos, hay field, house, farm buildings, cattle, young boy, horse, young boy, horse, geese and ducks, corn fields, two little girls and dog, boy and dog, children, Mom and Dad, windmill, people, windmill and well, and caterpillar tractor with tank treads in the field. Reel 7. Group of men and tractors, two women, planting sorghum sign, picking crops, open field with barrels, man with a camera, people on horses, picking, large group people, man and a microphone, people playing guitar, Hereford ranch, farm buildings, landscapes, barn, windmill, cattle eating, canyon, cattle, people, two children, a barn, children waving while riding horses, chickens, people, trees, and hay stacks.
Subject (Topics) :
Agriculture
Subject (Topics) :
Travel
Subject (Topics) :
Cattle
Subject (Topics) :
Native Americans
Source (Names):
Glacier National Park
Source (Places):
Seattle (Wash.)
Source (Places):
British Columbia
Source (Temporal):
1930s
Source (Temporal):
1940s
Format-Extent:
01:12:22
Format-Medium:
Motion picture film
Format-Medium:
Black and white; color
Format-Medium:
Silent
Dimensions:
16mm
Type:
Moving Image
Rights:
This work has been identified as being free of known restrictions under U.S. copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. The organization that has made this item available believes that the item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. (CC Public Domain 1.0 and RightsStatements.org NoC-US 1.0). The original object is available at History Nebraska. For more information contact: hn.web@nebraska.gov
