Motion Picture MP2018-4
Administrative Information
These silent home movies were taken by Robert Lodge. It depicts events at MIT in Cambridge, MA; parades in Portland, OR, and Seattle, WA; dancing; aerial maneuvers; and boat racing.
SD-quality copies of already digitized motion pictures are available for $20, and HD-quality copies of already digitized motion pictures are $50. Copies of motion pictures not already digitized will incur additional costs.
This item does not circulate but reproductions may be purchased.
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Shot List
- The annual Field Day event between freshmen and sophomores at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It begins with a car bearing a sign reading "Voo Doo's Order of the Purple Shaft," a reference to the humor magazine Voo Doo and the retired tradition of the cane rush. It then shows the glove fight which took place on Briggs Field, in which students would try to remove gloves hidden on their opponents' bodies, resulting in a general melee and lots of torn clothing.
- The Rose Festival Parade in Portland, OR, showing the White Stag building in the background and various flower-covered floats.
- The 1950 Seattle Seafair Festival Parade featuring "Prime Minister" Ray L. Eckmann and other floats.
- Black and white footage of Asian dancing.
- Color and black and white footage of aerial maneuvers by the Blue Angels fighter jets.
- Color and black and white footage of a hydroplane speed boat race, perhaps related to the Seattle Seafair Festival.