Detail View: Ira Current Collection: Current review no. 4: Blonde cargo

Collection Name: 
Ira Current
Title: 
Current review no. 4: Blonde cargo
Name: 
Current, Ira B.
Name and Role: 
Current, Ira B.;Photographer
Resource Type: 
Moving Image
Genre: 
Amateur films
Genre: 
silent films
Place Created: 
[New York]
Date Created: 
1936
Date Captured: 
N/A
Language Term: 
English
Extent: 
1 film reel (19min., 26sec.)
Form: 
color film (film, material)
Internet Media Type: 
video/mp4
Form: 
16mm (photographic film size)
Abstract: 
Performers, Edyth Schou, Grayce Clarke. Loose narrative film about two women on a road trip, including footage of the women washing a car, driving in the country, swimming at Oquaga Lake, New York; using a rowboat with Jim Anderson on Owasco Lake; playing horseshoes in Greene, New York; riding horses, petting a cat, and visiting a church building in New Milford, Pennsylvania and the Tunkhannock Viaduct in Nicholson, Pennslvania. Also includes images of the Current family cleaning a car and having a picnic in a park.
Note Type: 
Segment sequence
Note: 
00:00:00 Opening credits. 00:00:19 Two woman with blonde hair wash a car in preparation for a road trip. 00:02:25 They sit in the car and talk and smoke cigarettes. The car is parked on the side of the road. 00:04:37 The women pick up their suitcases and walk towards a cabin next to Oquaga Lake in New York; Title card reads “Swimming at Aquaga Lake, N.Y.—” Both women are sitting on the dock of the lake in their bathing suits. One woman swims in the water. 00:07:50 The women walk back towards their car. A title card appears and reads “Boating with Jim Anderson on Owasco Lake—." The women are now sitting in a small, motorized boat that is traveling around the lake. 00:09:37 Title card reads “’Horseshoes,’ Greene, N.Y.” The two women are now tossing horseshoes in a yard. The women also sit on a fence at a ranch and talk to a young man. Scenes of cocker spaniel puppies appear. 00:11:48 Title card reads “Then, Riding the horses –.” The women ride horses around a field at the ranch. 00:12:28 Title card reads “Old structures-Church at New Milford, Pa, & Tunchannoc Viaduct. [some in Dufay Color].” The women walk up to an old church building established in 1827. They also look at the Tunkhannock Viaduct. 00:14:50 Title card reads “The “family car” gets shined also—." A man, part of the Current family, walks outside to look at the car. The man and his son shine the car together; 16:40 Title card reads “For a family picnic—” Men and women of the Current family gather in the park for a family picnic. 00:19:14 “The End” appears on the screen. 00:19:26 Emd of recording.
Subject Topic: 
Women
Subject Topic: 
Voyages and travels
Subject Topic: 
Automobile travel
Subject Topic: 
Outdoor recreation
Subject Name: 
Schou, Edith
Subject Name: 
Clarke, Grayce
Subject Temporal: 
Twentieth century
Identifier: 
U183050993300_narv_currentIra_currentReviewNo4BlondeCargo_a.mp4
Identifier ARK: 
https://ark.colorado.edu/ark:/47540/gj089w41j6d9
Physical Location: 
University of Colorado Boulder Libraries Rare and Distinctive Collections
Shelf Locator: 
COU:491
Access Condition: 
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Access Condition URI: 
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