Andrew Avery Home Movies Film Reel 8: hm-avr_0079

Partial Transcript: Black slug;

Children in a classroom;

Man on left of table in chemistry lab - two boys on right setting up apparatus - several shots of man & boys with apparatus and of boy at sink;

Science class: high school - mostly boys and a few girls - several experiments being conducted;

Rhythm band: young children on a stage with triangles, tambourines, etc.;

Whole stage;

Older children on same stage;

Classroom: young children seated at rows of desks - get up and take books from shelves next to desks, then sit at tables;

Black slug;

Classroom continued: children & teacher: saying pledge of allegiance (children have arms extended instead of hands over heart) - moving things around in a diorama - teacher going from desk to desk - children writing on the board - children showing a 'play' by scrolling text and drawings through window of puppet-type stage;

Track: two teen boys run hurdles;

Teen boy does long jump;

Teen boys do high jump;

Football practice: huddle - running plays (bad picture with dirt & scratches);

Two-story white building as seen across broad grassy yard;

Women's basketball (indoors): girls shooting baskets;

Women's basketball (indoors): girls shooting baskets;

Women's basketball (indoors): basketball practice - girls sit on bleachers - they get up, then run toward camera;

Men's basketball (indoors): practice in gym;

Scouts: group of cub scouts marches across field toward camera, carrying U.S. flag and another flag - two men in suits march with them - in background is long covered picnic-type shelter;

Same place with older scouts;

Man leads marching band in same place as scouts;

Five men in suits, one has clipboard;

Group of boy scouts, in field, making two human pyramids;

Three men with clipboard or score pad;

Scouts

Segment Synopsis: This footage contains various scenes of children performing various school and outdoor activities. These scenes occur in or around Bainbridge, Georgia.

Keywords: Basketball; Bellamy salute; Black & white film; Boy Scouts; Children; Classrooms; Color film; Cub Scouts; Labs; Marching bands; Music classes; School plays; Science classes; Track

Partial Transcript: Banquet (indoors): a luau-style banquet. people walk past candlelit tables - seated individuals and groups - panning shots of guests at tables - jazz band - men and women speakers;

Banquet continued: hula dancer - teen boy singing

Segment Synopsis: This footage contains scenes of an indoor banquet. These scenes occur in or around Bainbridge, Georgia.

Keywords: Banquets; Color film; Dining halls; Hula dancers; Singing

Partial Transcript: Playground: group of about twenty boys & girls joins hands in a circle - play games including marbles;

Playground continued: jump rope, baseball;

Metal staircase outside building - boys run down stairs and jump last 5 feet to ground (staircase does not reach ground). Fire drill?;

Children playing dodgeball;

Girls' softball, hopscotch - boys' calisthenics - men in ties & shirtsleeves watching boys exercise;

Boys exercise - girls' calisthenics;

Woman in blue dress and white hat - Miss Grace King in Victory Garden - picking tomatoes

Segment Synopsis: This footage contains various scenes of children in various outdoor activities and exercises. These scenes occur in or around Bainbridge, Georgia.

Keywords: "Victory Garden"; Baseball; Calisthenics; Color film; Dodgeball; Exercise; Fire drills; Hopscotch; Jump rope; Marbles; Miss Grace King; Softball

Partial Transcript: Various shots of different brick buildings - people leaving them - possibly churches?;

People talking outside church;

Workers at a bottling plant;

Sign: "Turners Shoppe";

Two shots: storefront and display in window;

A store: man in store - pedestal bust with hat on head, sign: "Reduction on all ladies fur lined suits";

Sign: "Turners Shoppe" lit in red and blue neon;

Car dealers: neon sign: "Ford" (with Ford Motor Co. logo);

Cutout sign: "1840 Ford V8";

Cars at dealership;

Men at dealership - man looks at car - men walk around showroom;

Car parked in front of large window of building - signs in & above window read: "Gunn-Drake Motors Inc." "Dodge Trucks";

Signs: "Dodge Plymouth Sales-Service" "Dodge Plymouth Repairs Drive-In";

Two men looking under hood of car;

Mechanics walking around cars on lot;

Continued: mechanics walking around cars on lot - man showing car to another man;

Signs: "Used Cars" "Get In and Go!";

Car lot;

Repeat of signs: "Dodge Plymouth Sales-Service" "Dodge Plymouth Repairs Drive-In";

Seven men pose with car in front of Dodge dealership;

Men from group above;

Man gets into car and backs up - man drives away;

Men outside dealership;

Veterinarian: small white building in front of large red barn or stable;

Man in hat stands in front of white building - sign on building: "Dr. Chas N. Cooper, Veterinary";

Same man stands with two other men holding a mule in front of the stable and tries to insert something into mule's mouth;

Man with four mules in corral outside stable;

Pepsi: signs (can't read all words): "Enjoy Pepsi-Cola Made only by Pepsi Cola Company _?_ Bigger-Better Bottled locally by _?_ Pepsi-Cola Bottling C_?_";

Front of Pepsi building - man stands in doorway - sign hangs above door - lots of glass windows;

Two women and one man stand by cooler chest with sign on it "Pepsi-Cola" - man opens lid, takes out bottles, opens bottles, hands them to the women;

One of the women, shown with man, takes a drink;

Two men working in bottling plant;

Three men stand outside Pepsi plant and drink Pepsi from bottles;

Man stands next to Pepsi truck on city street;

Man lifts case of Pepsi off truck;

Pepsi truck drives away down narrow street, building on right of scene has "Coca-Cola" sign hanging above door;

Group of twenty or thirty men stands massed behind banner - (shot from side, can't read) (?) Two men in front of banner, "_?_ Bainbridge _?_ Port City";

Two men and one young woman in front of banner, "__EEP__ER IN THE ___" (?);

Men milling around near men and woman shown with banner;

Brady's: women walking past storefront window displays. painted on window: "Brady's";

Two women come out of store - another woman comes out - three women and two men pose in front of store's doorway;

Four women shopping in store;

Other women shoppers - older man poses for camera - men in store;

Shoppers;

Woman shopper looks in mirror;

Woman tries on hat;

Men's department;

Bank: door of building - sign over door: "First State National Bank";

A banker in his office;

Another banker in his office;

Woman through bank teller window with bars on it - painted on window: "Notes";

Man through bank teller window with bars on it - painted on window: "Savings";

Young man through bank teller window with bars on it - painted on window: "collections";

Man behind teller window counts out money for customer standing to right of window - another man at teller's window;

Long barn with sign: "Bainbridge Stockyards horse's mules cattle hogs";

Same sign: "Bainbridge Stockyards: horses - mules - cattle - hogs";

Indoors, small room with two women and one man in it, all seating - one woman in front of typewriter - man has his back to them, is also typing - they all look at camera;

Three men behind counter in large room - sign on wall behind them, in part "by order of state veterinarian";

Man prods cow;

Man behind counter waves arm;

Cow;

Men in bleachers - sign behind them "For Buyers Only" - camera pans across bleachers, which line two walls of building - fifty or sixty men seated there;

Stockyards building - side, front & roof visible - pens and parked cars outside;

Man by trucks outside building;

More men come out of buildings, get into trucks with slats around sides for transporting animals - drive away;

Older woman, seated at desk, writing - over her shoulders, two more women are seen (front view);

Young woman at desk, writing (side view);

Two women in an office - woman on right operates an office machine (?) while the other woman takes notes;

Sign: "Stockyards: horses - mules - cattle - hogs";

Lots of pigs run down chute toward camera;

Man in chute herds pigs with stick;

Over shoulder of man standing in chute, pigs go by;

Cows in pen;

Building located on corner of city block - sign above door: "Williams Furniture Company";

Front of store - people walking by;

People going into store;

Two men pose in doorway - sign above door says "Williams";

Men in front of doorway wave to camera;

Storefront;

Sign hanging from side of building: "Perry, Jones & Co. Insurance";

Older gentleman stands outside insurance co. and waves at the camera;

Profile of man in front of building;

White building with flowers in windows - sign above door and windows: "Dole the Florist";

Door, top is glass panel with painted-on sign: "W.A. Dole, Florist";

Man comes out of florist's doorway and adds greenery to bouquet on windowsill;

Bouquets on windowsill;

Greenhouses and garden;

Woman in dress stands in garden amid daisies (?), then picks some;

Woman under grape arbor;

Flowers - foxgloves or snapdragons (?);

Green tomatoes on tomato plants;

Dahlia;

Green plants- possibly pines or firs (?);

Neon sign, not lit: "J.W. Callahan Insurance";

Looking up at two open windows on second floor of brick building: "J.W. Callahan Insurance" painted on each window - windows are open, with woman looking out of left window and man looking out of right window;

Same scene - includes hanging sign from first shot;

Same scene - includes windows "Callahan Building" painted on wall above lower story windows;

Four African American men, boys in overalls standing near truck with brown tent (?) over bed - man in hat at back of truck;

Signs painted on store window: "Harmon Reddick Co. Wholesale" and painted-on picture of man, woman, girl with a giant cereal bowl (?) - legend: "Crisp to the last spoonful";

Man & woman pose with tall stack of cloth bags of grain piled on a handtruck - barely visible African American man supports handtruck;

Sign, hanging in front of tree branches: "Office, Ramsay's Nursery, Visitors Welcome";

White building with glassed greenhouse sloping off toward left;

Water tower surrounded by leafless trees;

Inside greenhouse, looking down row of plants;

White camellias flowers on bush;

Nandina bush;

Man in hat standing outside, in middle of plants and behind a sign: "Nandina domestica";

Second man carries a nandina plant with roots balled in burlap to man in hat - man in hat examines plant;

Nandina bush with berries;

Nursery worker with tall bush with large yellow flowers (mums or dahlias, probably in raised bed);

White house with green roof, heavily landscaped - person walks along side of house - shaded, hard to see;

Older man and woman seated in front of tall shrubs in heavy shade;

Flowering branches over a stream;

Stream (?) or waterfall (?);

Downtown city block- stores and businesses with cars parked in front - signs "The Leader" - "Grollman";

Man in shirt and tie (Mr. Grollman) leaning on low glass display case with shirts in it - behind him is storefront window displaying men's clothing;

Three men in front of store, in sport coat or shirt and tie (posed);

Three men wearing short-sleeved shirts, standing in front of doorway and brick wall (posed);

Five women and one man, all standing in front of store, talking and laughing;

Vertical sign hanging from storefront: "Grollman's";

Same sign and part of building;

Two woman and one boy come out of store, followed by a dozen more men, women, children, individually or in small groups;

Continued from above shot: people coming out of store;

Three men and four women in front of Grollman's (posed);

Storefront with large sign above doorway "Francken's" "A Good Place to Trade";

Woman and man wearing suit pose in front of store window;

Woman and man from previous shot joined by two women and one young man, all in front of window - shoes (?) in window display;

People walking on sidewalk in front of Francken's store;

Front of building - sign above window: "O.M. Haire" - sign painted on window: "O.M. Haire Real Estate and Insurance";

Window sign: "O.M. Haire Real Estate and Insurance";

Young woman and older man come out of door next to window sign and pose in front of window;

Haire building;

Downtown street corner - across intersection, large brick building with sign over door: "Rogers" - car with U.S. flag parked in foreground near camera - parade: large trucks pass crowd of people on street and turn toward camera;

Downtown street - tank drives by camera - trucks drive through streets lined with people - motorcycle drives by;

Sunset over river;

Black slug

Segment Synopsis: This footage contains scenes of several local businesses. These scenes occur in or around Bainbridge, Georgia.

Keywords: "Bainbridge Stockyards"; "Brady's"; "Coca-Cola"; "Dodge Plymouth Repairs Drive-In"; "Dodge Plymouth Repairs Service"; "Dodge Trucks"; "Dole the Florist"; "Dr. Chas N. Cooper, Veterinary"; "First State National Bank"; "Ford"; "Francken's"; "Grollman's"; "Gunn-Drake Motors Inc."; "Harmon Reddick Company Wholesale"; "J.W. Callahan Insurance"; "O.M. Haire Real Estate and Insurance"; "Pepsi-Cola"; "Perry, Jones & Company Insurance"; "Ramsay's Nursery"; "Turners Shoppe"; "W.A. Dole, Florist"; "Williams Furniture Company"; Bank tellers; Bankers; Black & white film; Bottling plants; Car dealerships; Cattle; Christian churches; Color film; Cows; Flowers; Fur stores; Mechanics; Mules; Pigs; Tomatoes; Veterinartians

Partial Transcript: Field - Credits roll: "Footsteps of Progress in the Flint River Valley" "Photographed by Andrew Avery";

[Credits] "A Live-At-Home Program Dedicated to Our Boys and Girls of Today, The Homemakers of Tomorrow";

[Credits] "Sponsored by the Business and Professional Leaders of Bainbridge and Decatur County, Georgia" "Featuring the Growth of Agriculture, Business, Education and Religion in the Beautiful Southland";

[Credits] "An Invitation to Visit the Community of Opportunity" - "Enjoy the Industrial Resources of Our Inland Port City, Growing Livestock Production and Fertile Farmlands"

Segment Synopsis: This footage consists of the credits to Andrew Avery's "Footsteps of Progress in the Flint River Valley." The scenes depicted occur in or around Bainbridge, Georgia.

Keywords: "Footsteps of Progress in the Flint River Valley"; Andrew Avery; Color film

Partial Transcript: Church with several cars parked outside - man and young boy walk by;

Front of church, sign over door: "Est 1908 Delwood Baptist Church";

People coming out of church - stand talking outside;

Church supper: buffet tables, food, people in buffet line, eating, sitting & standing, talking;

Church supper continued;

People going back into church;

Wedding: bridesmaids outside church - arrival of bride and her father - trunk of car with "Just Married" painted on it - bride and groom, guests;

Large posed group of people, about 35-30 men, women and children;

Smaller segments of group shown above (can't tell if part of wedding);

Continued: smaller segments of group shown above (can't tell if part of wedding)

Segment Synopsis: This footage depicts various church activities, including a wedding. These scenes occur in or around Bainbridge, Georgia.

Keywords: Baptist; Buffets; Ceremonies; Christian churches; Church suppers; Color film; Parishioners; Picnics; Receptions; Weddings

Partial Transcript: Basketball game: (outdoors) one basket in foreground, other courts visible in background - older boys in basketball uniforms making jump shots;

Very short clips of boys shooting baskets;

Game is taking place on dirt court in midst of busy playground;

Younger children, wearing coats, watching basketball game and looking at camera;

Younger children dance for the camera;

Posed shot of basketball team;

Team members;

Girls' basketball practice;

Continued: girls' basketball practice;

Posed women's basketball team members;

Women's basketball team at outdoor practice

Segment Synopsis: This footage contains various scenes of teen-aged children playing basketball. These scenes occur in or around Bainbridge, Georgia.

Keywords: Basketball practice; Color film; Schools; Uniforms

Partial Transcript: Sign: "Jim Woodruff Dam 1 mile";

Two flags on pole (one U.S. and one red flag with white symbol);

Jim Woodruff Dam;

Dammed water;

Casually dressed people standing on a barge;

Dam from various angles;

Turbulent water;

Closing lock or somehow manipulating dam;

Men on dam;

Water pouring out of floodgates;

Men on dam;

Big whirlpool;

Dam with "Jim Woodruff" sign visible - people are walking on dam;

Black slug

Segment Synopsis: This footage depicts scenes of the Jim Woodruff Dam on Lake Seminole.

Keywords: "Jim Woodruff Dam"; Color film; Floodgates; Seminole Lake

Partial Transcript: Man driving four-wheel, one-horse buggy down dirt road past gate, with open fields in background;

Lots of people gathered in field next to large building made of weathered wood with pitched roof;

People walking away from camera, across field towards cars and other people;

Church supper. long shot down table at church supper - medium and close shots of people at supper: serving plates at table, carrying plates, sitting and standing, holding plates and eating;

Posed groups of families, young girls, older people - older ladies fanning themselves with straw fans;

Six girls and one boy posed on steps in front of closed door of weathered wood building;

Baptism: looking across lake at baptism: about twenty people knee-deep in lake;

One man wades into lake testing bottom with long stick;

Six men wade out into lake and stand side-by-side, may be one adult and five teens;

One teen boy stands facing four teens and one adult who are standing side-by-side. Man at far end of row is wearing a hat and has one hand upraised. All are between waist and chest-deep in the lake;

Man in hat is in middle of row - he dunks teen boy while four flanking teen boys watch;

Next man is dunked;

Six young women standing waist-deep in lake with man in hat - man dunks one of teen girls - girl emerges and wipes her face - man reaches into his hip pocket, which is below water level, and gets a handkerchief - he gives it to the girl and she wipes her face - another girl is baptized;

Young women wade out of water towards shore, where a crowd of people is waiting

Segment Synopsis: This footage contains various church scenes, such as baptisms and church suppers or picnics. These scenes occur in or around Bainbridge, Georgia.

Keywords: Baptisms; Buffets; Buggies; Children; Christian churches; Church supper; Color film; Horses; Lakes; Picnics

Partial Transcript: Turnips growing in the field;

Man (Mr. Sharper Hanice) kneels amid turnip plants, pulls and holds up a huge turnip;

A beet (or red turnip);

Man (Mr. Sharper Hanice) stands, holding up beet (or red turnip);

Turnip and beet (or red turnip), held in air;

Squatting man in field holding turnip and beet (or red turnip);

Possum standing on sand;

Possum walks through turnip field;

Dog, possibly German shepherd mix, grabs possum and shakes it by neck;

Elderly woman sits next to thirty-something woman - they are flanked by two young girls - they sit at a table which has two cakes and some other items on it;

Church supper: long shot down table at church supper - medium and close shots of people at supper: serving plates at table, carrying plates, sitting and standing, holding plates and eating;

Several hundred children massed on and in front of steps of school building;

Side of brick building with arched central doorway with white trim: man walks out of doorway to the left, passes through frame and out of view. he is followed by teen girls carrying schoolbooks, then a young man, then a man in a suit;

(Same door from new angle) elementary school children come out of doorway to right, move through frame and offscreen to left;

School bus full of children driving away from school, through gate, toward and past camera. sign on side of bus reads: "Mount Pleasant Vocational School" - other buses follow - one bus, in addition to "Mount Pleasant Vocational School" also says "Decatur County";

Bus parked in gate of school, young man stands to left of open bus door - his left hand is on the bus and his right hand holds textbooks, school is in background;

Corner of school building;

Angled shot of facade of building, with windmill behind and towering over building;

Across plain lawn towards white house with low porch and one chimney;

Young woman (about 20 years of age?) stands in front of window or glass door - she is wearing a suit and talking;

Four young teen girls stand in doorway - double doors are open - women walk towards camera, divide into two groups of two and walk out of frame to left and right - succeeding groups of four do the same;

About twenty-five teen girls stand side by side and two deep next to building - they raise their hands and wave towards camera;

Some of the girls from above group;

In foreground, one woman (Mrs. Sullivan - home economics teacher) has one teen girl pivot in circle as woman examines her dress - in background are girls standing in doorway described above;

A second girl's dress is examined by same woman;

Girls file out of doorway in rows, walk past camera on both sides;

Home construction. two boys stand by ladder leaning against partly constructed house;

One boy climbs ladder carrying a piece of roofing - a man and another boy are already on the roof;

Man and boys putting roof on;

Three roofers;

Women's' basketball team, posed, outside, in uniform;

Women's' basketball team playing ball on outdoor court;

Men' basketball team, posed, outside, in uniform Men' basketball team playing ball on outdoor court (man in white shirt and tie is Mr. Wells);

Basketball practice continued;

School picnic: spread on ground;

Group gathered around the food on the sheets - some are holding plates by their sides - shown from several angles;

Lake or river with several boats on it;

Four or five people paddle canoe into frame;

Medium and close shots of eleven classes of schoolchildren of varying ages, all posed with teachers next to school building;

Posed groups of schoolchildren continued;

Man leads students walking around corner of building, toward and past camera

Segment Synopsis: This footage contains various scenes of farming, church suppers, and various school activities such as home economics, shop or woodworking class, and basketball practice. These scenes occur in or around Bainbridge, Georgia.

Keywords: "Decatur County"; "Mount Pleasant Vocational School"; Basketball; Beets; Boats; Buffets; Cakes; Children; Church suppers; Color film; Dogs; Dresses; Farms; German Shepherds; Home construction; Home economics; Lakes; Picnics; Possums; Roofing; School buses; Schools; Shop class; Turnips; Uniforms

Partial Transcript: Peanut harvest: men in mown field stacking peanut plants in pile next to mule-drawn sled;

The pile of peanut plants is built around a tall pole;

Man on sled hands peanut plants to men on ground who add them to the stack they are building around the pole;

Harvested fields with several piles of peanut plants in foreground - men and sled in midground - unharvested fields in background;

Mules, sleds, stacks of peanut plants;

Stack of peanut plants;

Empty field in foreground - mules and dust and men running farm machines in midground;

Man climbs up slats of pallet leaning against stack of peanuts, binds rope to pole at top of stack;

Mule pulls stack over onto pallet and drags it away;

Loading peanut plants into (sorter);

Peanut plants roll through belt of another machine;

Peanuts pour out of chute of another machine and fill pails;

Mountain of peanuts;

More sorting of straw or hay with machinery - laborers;

Bales of straw or hay stand stacked by cart

Segment Synopsis: This footage contains scenes of peanut harvesting and farming. These scenes occur in or around Bainbridge, Georgia.

Keywords: Color film; Farmers; Farms; Hay; Laborers; Mules; Peanut harvesting; Peanut plants; Straw

Partial Transcript: Eight men wearing clean looking work clothes, some sitting and some standing, next to white building - there are more than eight people in this group it takes three shots to show all of them;

Doorway of building shown above: the same men shown sitting and standing are here shown coming out of the building: they walk past the camera and out of the frame;

Marvin Hanell's house (in Vada): Horses in paddock - horse closest to camera is saddled mare with man at her head holding her bridle - she is nursing a foal;

Five or six horses standing close together - some are saddled and some are not;

Nursing foal;

Hereford bulls in field;

Man approaches the bulls;

White country church seen through trees, dirt road and two cars;

People come out of church door in ones and twos;

Congregation poses in front of the church;

Congregation disperses;

Front of another church, also white, smaller than church described above;

Lettering above door of church "Oak Grove Christian Church";

A few women and children come out of Oak Grove Christian Church, followed by rest of congregation;

People standing outside the church and by their cars, talking to each other;

Oak Grove Christian Church after the people have gone;

Sign: "Prosperity Baptist Church";

Front view of church with people outside;

Side view of church, with people outside;

Front view of church, most people gone;

People walking through a parking area;

Church supper: long shot down table at church supper - medium and close shots of people at supper: serving plates at table, carrying plates, sitting and standing, holding plates and eating;

Church supper continued: shots of people at supper - serving plates at table, carrying plates, sitting and standing, holding plates and eating;

Cars parked next to a church - not same as any seen in earlier shots;

Front of church, with cars parked in front;

People on steps of church - sign above door: "Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church";

People coming out of the church;

People talking in front of the church;

Baptism. seven or eight men and women stand in a river. The preacher has a towel over his shoulder and he wipes their faces after immersing them;

About a hundred people walking away from river, toward camera;

White, two-level church with several people standing in front;

People coming out of the church;

Sign over church door: "Sutton Methodist Church" - people coming out of the church;

People coming out of the church;

Men standing in front of the church;

Down table at church supper;

People eating supper under trees;

Black slug;

Older woman carrying floral arrangement in vase down a sidewalk - steps of a building are visible in background;

Fair or livestock show: boy holding Hereford bull by rope halter in foreground - about twenty people standing behind him in large paddock or pen;

Young men leading Hereford bulls in circle;

Small groups of people talking to each other at livestock show;

Young men leading Hereford bulls in circle;

People pose with black (black angus?) bulls which have satin blankets with writing on them draped across their middles [can't read writing]

Segment Synopsis: This footage contains various church scenes and shots of a livestock show. These scenes occur in or around Bainbridge, Georgia.

Keywords: "Mount Pleasant Baptist Church"; "Oak Grove Christian Church"; "Prosperity Baptist Church"; "Sutton Methodist Church"; Buffets; Christian churches; Church suppers; Color film; Foals; Hereford bulls; Horses; Livestock shows; Parishioners; Picnics; Preachers

Partial Transcript: Marching band in uniform practices in a field;

Drum major leads band towards camera;

Band stands in formation while adult man inspects them;

Christmas parade: rainy day, streets packed with people on both sides - camera views parade from middle of street. Motorcycle, car, and boy scouts are shown from distance;

Marching band marches past camera;

Santa standing, interacting with little girl, handing things to other children;

Drummer of marching band, standing with other band members. on drum: "Bainbridge High School Band";

Band is standing in formation, camera looks down length of street between two rows of band members at oncoming parade;

Parade: car - two tanks, fire engine, car with girl wearing formal attire, marching band, red car with flag of Red Cross, Cub Scouts, Girl Scouts;

Sign: "Radio Station WMGR 1490kc Visitors Welcome";

WGHR building - people walk past on sidewalk;

Band on platform under pine trees - all members are older adults - seated man holds neck of guitar while other man plays accordion;

Bainbridge High School Band stands under pine trees - drum rests on rack - band is not playing;

Man on platform under pine trees speaks into microphone;

A second speaker on platform under pine trees speaks into microphone

Segment Synopsis: This footage contains various outdoor parade scenes. These scenes occur in or around Bainbridge, Georgia.

Keywords: "Bainbridge High School Band"; "WGHR"; Accordions; Bands; Boy Scouts; Color film; Fire engines; Fire trucks; Marching bands; Outdoor parades; Red Cross; Santa Claus; Speakers; Speeches

Partial Transcript: Sign on car door "Official Miss America Pageant Car";

Young woman (Miss America) with corsage as big as her head, stands between older couple next to car;

Young woman with corsage (Miss America);

Miss America poses with ten people in front of WMGR studio;

Woman with notepad interviews Miss America;

Banner hanging over street: "Welcome Miss America"

Segment Synopsis: This footage contains scenes of Miss America posing and being interviewed during her visit to Bainbridge, Georgia.

Keywords: Banners; Color film; Interviews; Miss American Pageant

Partial Transcript: Man wearing tan uniform (scout leader or army??) stands at podium - men and women are seated behind him;

Man in suit takes podium, seated people stand;

Another man at podium;

Three men in tan uniforms pin button or ribbon on lapel of man in suit;

Another man at podium;

Young girl in fancy dress pins button or ribbon on speaker's lapel;

People stand, walk down steps of platform and down aisle between seated audience;

People chatting after the event;

Church: people come out of door of white wooden church - young girls, boys, people posed in groups, minister greeting people;

People posed in front of sign so most of it cannot be read. visible is: "BR___ON ... BAPTI ... 1900";

Black slug

Segment Synopsis: This footage contains scenes of a formal ceremony on a stage, as well as various shots of parishioners leaving church. These scenes occur in or around Bainbridge, Georgia.

Keywords: Buttons; Ceremonies; Christian churches; Color film; Crowds; Ribbons; Speeches

Partial Transcript: People stand alongside railroad tracks. Train appears and begins to pass the camera, moving quickly;

Teen or man with long hair wearing T-shirt stands next to passenger car of train;

Train passes camera slowly - it is red, white, and blue - sign on train says "American Freedom Train";

Men watch as train passes very slowly;

Train is stopped;

People board at rear of train;

Black slug

Segment Synopsis: This footage contains scenes of a passenger train stopping at a station and people getting on the train. These scenes occur in or around Bainbridge, Georgia.

Keywords: Color film; Passenger trains; Railroad; Train stations; Trains

Partial Transcript: Teachers and teenage girl students pose standing in formation - girls do modified jumping jacks (they are clapping their hands over their heads but not jumping);

Continued: girls doing jumping jacks (they are clapping their hands over their heads but not jumping);

Girls follow teachers walking in formation toward camera;

Seven young boys wash their faces in seven metal basins which sit on a bench in a dirt yard outside a brick building;

The boys dry their faces on towels;

The boys comb their hair

Segment Synopsis: This footage contains various scenes of physical education activities. These scenes occur in or around Bainbridge, Georgia.

Keywords: Color film; Educators; Exercise; Jumping jacks; Physical education; Students; Teachers

Partial Transcript: Older woman walks out door of white house and looks at her nicely landscaped property: a curved drive is lined with low pink flowers;

Woman (Miss Grace King) near her door;

Woman comes out another door, this one near the end of the house - she is followed by a young woman and then by four women in white uniforms (maids?) - all six women look at the flowers in the yard;

Older woman watering flowers with hose;

Older and younger woman standing near house closely inspecting the ornamentals;

Older and younger woman picking butter beans in a medium-sized garden - they have picked a bushel of beans;

The women sort the beans;

Middle-aged woman on steps of house, then walking past shrubs;

House under pine trees;

Man and woman (Mr. Elcan and his daughter, who is Dr. Nichol's wife) play badminton near house under pine trees;

Circle of white adirondack chairs under pines;

Young couple who played badminton sit at table by adirondack chairs - older woman (Mrs. Elcan) pours a glass of pink punch from a glass pitcher for them;

Pink azaleas;

Pink azalea bushes, with people barely visible walking behind the flowers;

Azaleas and a fountain

Segment Synopsis: This footage contains scenes of local houses and gardens. These scenes occur in or around Bainbridge, Georgia.

Keywords: Azaleas; Badminton; Butter beans; Color film; Flowers; Fountains; Gardens; Houses and homes; Pine trees

Partial Transcript: Bainbridge High School. marble sign over imposing doorway: "Bainbridge High School" front of high school: three teenage girls, each carrying a trophy, walk single file towards camera, they are followed by other girls, also walking single file, each carrying a pennant - pennants reads: "Championship Second District 1924", "Championship Second District 1928", "Championship Second District 1929", "Championship Second District 1930", "Championship Second District 1931", "Championship Second District B1935", "Athletics Second District 1924", "Home Economics Second District 1926", "Oratory Second District 1927", "Oratory Second District 1928", "Oratory Second District 1930", "Oratory Second District 1931", "Spelling Second District 1926", "Spelling Second District 1930", "Spelling Second District 1931", "Spelling Second District 1932", "Spelling Second District B1935", "Spelling Second District B1936", "Spelling Second District B1938";

Man wearing necktie comes out of school (Mr. Elcan);

Girls with trophies and banners pose on steps of school;

Row by row, girls carrying trophies and banners walk toward camera (many brief shots, with cuts between the approach of each row);

Four young women and three young men, posed;

Six of the seven young people walk past the camera in pairs

Segment Synopsis: This footage contains shots of people holding banners and trophies, many of which are for spelling competitions. These scenes occur in or around Bainbridge, Georgia.

Keywords: Awards; Banners; Championships; Color film; High Schools; Spelling competitions; Students; Trophies

Partial Transcript: Looking down a railroad track, with about ten people standing on dirt area to right of track, with a large building, probably the depot, partly seen behind them - a train is coming up the track toward the camera;

Train pulls into station and slows - people begin to approach train;

Train leaves station: caboose recedes from camera;

Base of a monument with steps of building visible in background - inscription on monument reads: "Benjamin Elsworth Russell / born Oct. [5], 194[5] / died Dec. 4, 1909";

Across grassy lawn in park toward monument;

Banner stretching across city street - brick building and parked cars in background - banner reads "Welcome to Bainbridge Nobles of Mystic Shrine";

Another banner, with trees and three-story brick building in background - banner reads: "Nobles We Welcome You";

U.S. flag flying on flagpole - trees behind;

Banner reading: "Nobles We Welcome You";

Top of railroad depot building - sign at peak of roof reads: "Bainbridge";

Train approaching - man walks in area between tracks and depot building - other people wait in shelter of depot;

Train arrives, stops;

Sign on side of part of train, only part of sign can be read: "...alee Temple";

People get off of train: they are Shriners, wearing uniforms and fezzes, some carry brass band instruments;

People standing next to train;

Car of train has ramp coming down from it - people stand next to horse at base of ramp;

Shriner drives tiny car through parking lot;

Looking down wide city street toward oncoming parade, which begins with men on horseback followed by marching band;

People on side of road waiting for parade;

Man rides horse down street toward camera under "Nobles We Welcome You" banner;

Man rides horse past parade onlookers;

Horses and band leading parade;

Band marches past camera;

Men wearing white suits and Shriners' fezzes march by;

Men in costumes march by: one man is wearing a bra over his shirt and tie - several men are wearing black and white striped prison uniforms;

Band, standing in place, playing;

Men march by;

White wooden building with large porch - draped in bunting and flags and small banner which reads: "Orion _?_ _?_ _?_" [can't read all of banner];

Teenage boys in police uniforms pose on steps of building, then salute camera;

Teenage boys in police uniforms march in formation down sidewalk toward camera, pivot at camera, and march offscreen;

Six men in suits and hats and two nicely-dressed women pose in doorway near white wooden building with bunting;

Two of the men shake hands;

Two women stand in front of the group, each holding and reading from a sheet of paper;

Teenage boys in police uniforms standing outside, probably on a city street, eating and drinking;

Twenty or more men in suits and hats, leaving a building, greeting and talking with each other;

One of the men who came out of the building with the group - he has a long, gray beard;

Four women, each with a ribbon pinned to her dress near her left shoulder, standing in front of a doorway near a large tin bucket - woman in foreground hands cup to man with beard - he takes it and drinks;

Man in army uniform at front of group of men leaving building;

Teenage boys in police uniforms near group of men;

About thirty men and women stand informally in front of white wooden building with bunting;

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Segment Synopsis: This footage contains various scenes on a Shriner's Day Parade. These scenes occur in or around Bainbridge, Georgia.

Keywords: "Nobles of Mystic Shrine"; Banners; Color film; Costumes; Flags; Horses; Marching bands; Parades; Railroads; Shriners; Train Stations; Trains

Partial Transcript: Sign on marquee on awning of building: "Welcome Home Lt. Governor Marvin Griffin Congratulations";

Parade driving down city street - men riding in open cars - few onlookers;

Several different speakers at a podium - Bainbridge Courthouse is in background;

People seated in folding chairs;

Several other speakers at podium;

Man stands behind table, speaks into microphone - behind him are seated people and a very large oak tree [not same location as that with podium described above];

People seated in folding chairs;

Man stands behind table, speaks into microphone - behind him are seated people and a very large oak tree [not same location as that with podium described above];

Wooden sign: "Shopper's Lounge";

Corner of brick building - several men leave building - sign over door [can't read];

Boy Scouts lean on "Shopper's Lounge" sign;

Across roof of car at two men standing between car and brick building;

Men in suits come out of building and walk up sidewalk toward camera;

Two men carrying small banner which reads "Lions Club Bainbridge Georgia";

Banner: "Lions Club Bainbridge Georgia";

Large group of men in shirtsleeves comes out of [a different] building and walks up sidewalk past camera;

Continued: large group of men in shirtsleeves comes out of [a different] building and walks up sidewalk past camera;

Four men stand near banner - two men shake hands - one of the two men holds a plaque - two men begin to carry banner;

Across an open square or park at a large building with a tall clock tower and a dogwood blooming in front;

Bushes blooming in park;

Bushes blooming near large building and a dogwood blooming in front;

Looking up steps at sign over front porch of building: "Bainbridge Hospital";

Hospital from across street;

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Segment Synopsis: This footage contains various speeches (silent) in relation to Marvin Griffin's election as Governor of Georgia, as well as various shots of people around the community, including the Boy Scouts and the Bainbridge Lions Club. These scenes occur in or around Bainbridge, Georgia.

Keywords: "Bainbridge Courthouse"; "Bainbridge Hospital"; "Lions Club Bainbridge Georgia"; "Shopper's Lounge"; Boy Scouts; Color film; Dogwoods; Marvin Griffin; Speakers; Speeches