Film, Motion Picture

Silent color 16mm reel containing an assortment of family movies, presumably relating to the family of John S. and Hazel B. Nawrot, and their daughter Olive. The scenes include a family Christmas, autumn colors around Lake Orion, people gathered after a wedding at First United Presbyterian Church, a trip to Tobemory and Northeastern Manitoulin in Ontario, the MISS CANADA III at a marina, the Hudson's Thanksgiving parade on Second Avenue, and Wayne County Airport.

The reel begins with shots from a family Christmas get-together. The members of the family are filmed seated around a table eating Pfeffernüsse cookies, playing with a dog, handing out gifts around the tree, and finally drinking and playing ping pong.

The next portion of the film was shot at a small dam across a river. The area surrounded the river is wooded, with some small buildings visible among the trees.

The film continues with footage of autumn leaves in a rural area. The scenery includes country roads, hilly terrain, barns, and cottages on a lake--presumably Lake Orion. A dog is briefly filmed walking in the leaves beside a smaller dam.

The family poses with two soldiers in dress military jackets and peaked caps outside of the family's cottage, "Olive," on Kelly's Island in Lake Orion in the next series of shots. The camera then captures a sunset to the west of the lake.

Next, the young woman of the family, and a man in a brown suit and hat descent the front steps of a home with the address 4121. After a cut, the young woman wears a bride's maid dress and she follows a woman in a bridal gown from a house into a grey car. After a cut, the camera is outside of First United Presbyterian Church on Grand River Avenue at West Alexandrine Street following the wedding. The young woman follows behind the bride and groom as they leave the church and get into the car. In the background are a Mobilgas service station, a Grand River streetcar, Lincoln Collision, Morris Auto Parts are visible. The camera continues to roll as other wedding guests gather outside of the church.

At another location, the bride and groom are filmed cutting their wedding cake. The camera pans around over a group of people at the reception.

After another cut, an older woman is filmed sweeping the back steps outside of a brick house. A series of close-ups of flowers in a garden follow.

The next segment of the film takes place in Tobemory, Ontario. The camera pans around Little Tub harbor and Bay Street, showing the Owen Sound Transportation Company, Limited passenger ferry NORMAC at dock. The older man who appears throughout this set of films is shown in a cabin cruiser which is gassing up at an Esso dock, and then sitting on a sail yacht.

After a cut, the man is filmed posting beside a plaque on a boulder in the Northeastern Manitoulin and the Islands region of Ontario. The plaque reads:

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Thirty-Second President of the United States of America During His Vacation in Canada Immediately Prior to the Historical Quebec Conference Fished These Waters August 1st to August 8th, 1943.
Erected by the Department of Highways - Ontario, 1946

In the next shot, the rolls as the hydroplane MISS CANADA III is lowered into the water while atop a trailer.

Then, the reoccurring young woman and a pair of men pet a large dog beside a long grey building. These scenes are followed by brief series of shots of and from yellow airplanes around a rural airfield and of roses.

The next section of the film is of a Thanksgiving parade on Second Avenue, filmed from the street's southwest side, south of Prentis Street. Kroger, the Bronx Bar, a laundry service, and S. Kanners and Company stand in the background along the opposite side of Second. The majority of the floats have a nursery rhyme theme and are labeled with titles either along their sides or on the banners of people marching in front of them. In sequence, the featured portions of the parade are a marching band, the "Candyland" float, a marcher in a pumpkin mask, a Humpty Dumpty float, a float carrying giant books including "Heidi" and "Mistress Mary Quite Contrary," another marching band lead by majorettes and a major, a jack-in-the-box float, a toy soldier float, a group of clowns pulling a person in a monkey mask on a donkey shaped float, another marching band, the "Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater" float, "The House that Jack Built" float, "The Goose that Laid the Golden Egg" float, a miniature merry-go-round on a float, a large dog-shaped float, a float with a large figure of a person playing a drum, the "Santa's Workshop" float, a group of marchers wearing costumes consisting of over-sized torsos and heads, a group of people under a large caterpillar puppet, "The Clown Balloon" on a float, "The Old Woman In the Shoe" float, the "Teddy Bear" float, "The Adventures of Cloudchaser" float, and finally a float carrying "His Majesty Santa Claus."

The final sequence on the film is a series of shots taken from an airplane of Wayne County Airport. The camera captures both the airfield as an aerial shot, and the airport's main hanger from the runway.

The film is on a metal reel contained within a dark grey metal canister. "Very Personal" is handwritten on the lid of the tin. A handwritten list included in the tin reads "Very Personal, XMS Tree 1946 - inside, Autumn Color, Wedding, Warren, Boats, Hudson Parade, Tobemory, Flying with Warren" on the recto, and "Autumn S" on the verso