5502 Northeast Historic Film (Organization) 6-4117D University of Maine (Organization) Selection or Excerpt Web Version 1. Donor note/item annotation: “1931, Christmas, Shanghai, Hunting.” Woman and baby, family on shipboard. Boy climbs ladder. Views of ship. In China, women with baskets outside. Picking things up off ground. Man in white robe comes, gives the two women something. One has a knife. Street scenes, Door in fence, people look at camera. People walk through doorway.Vendor has a small table (folding). Street with long fence, no vehicles on street. Pan of field with a few small buildings. Shipboard again, children with balloons. Deck chairs. Boats, a sailing vessel (large junk?) Steamship fills frame and passes slowly right to left. Paper Chase: at least 100 horses and riders cross field. Family with other Westerners in field, they were watching the event and wearing winter clothes. Children in yard with dog. They are wearing coats and hats. Outside the yard in the street, pan of houses, fence, trees. Inside the yard behind the fence. Children run around. Family members and Chinese woman. Family scenes (grandmother?) with baby. Chinese nurse leans in to arrange baby, then comes into frame again and takes baby. She is wearing white jacket. At the beach. Children on sand they are wearing coats and hats with bare legs. Rapid pan of shoreline, hills, boats. Women sit on sand, beach shelter in background. Children play in sand, dunes in background, rocks and vegetation. 2. Donor note/item annotation: “Leaving Shanghai 1933. Bou Dam, England, Paris, Clevelly, etc.” (This last is apparently Clovelly in Devon, England) From the ship, views of the Bund in Shanghai. Ship leaves harbor, views of boats (dark at first). Scan of houses from moving steamship. Industrial buildings in the distance. (Balance of reel is not China) Abstract Home movies Local Is Part Of Joan Branch Collection Has Part 0706.0001 Has Part 0706.0002 Shanghai, China Spatial Paris, France Spatial Clovelly, Devon, United Kingdom Spatial 1931, 1933 Temporal Swan, Joseph E.C. Creator Northeast Historic Film Distributor Northeast Historic Film, Creative Commons License 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ This video clip may be used for research, teaching, and viewing but not for any commercial purpose. You must include the following credit: "Northeast Historic Film, Joan Branch Collection" 2008-02-22 2008 Betacam Digital (Digi Beta) NHF cube Moving Image Moving image/Submaster 00:00:00 00:28:23 4:3 30 fps (60 fields/sec) B&W Silent eng eng 5502 Northeast Historic Film (Organization) This item represents two 16mm reels (in order: 0706.0001, 0706.0002), as originally assembled and transferred as NHF catalog # 5502. In March 2008, all the physical reels of the Joan Branch Collection were renumbered with accession #0706 and reassembled into numerical order. Film transfer to Digital Betacam by Video Transfer Inc., Boston. Digitized to uncompressed 8-bit Quicktime (.mov). Edited on Final Cut Pro 6.1, compressed with Apple Compressor. Additional specs on streaming clips: MPEG-4 improved for fast cable streaming; Key frame interval 75; bitrate HIGH UBR; streaming hints enabled; reverse telecine frame control. 2008-02-22 2008 video/mp4 http://windowsonmaine.library.umaine.edu/objects/6-4117D.mp4 Moving Image Moving image/Viewing copy QuickTime MPEG-4 526.37 MB 00:00:00 00:28:23 2498.24 kbits/s 44.1 kHz 320x240 4:3 29.97 fps (59.94 fields/sec) B&W Silent eng eng 6-4117D University of Maine (Organization) This item represents two 16mm reels (in order: 0706.0001, 0706.0002), as originally assembled and transferred as NHF catalog # 5502. In March 2008, all the physical reels of the Joan Branch Collection were renumbered with accession #0706 and reassembled into numerical order. Film transfer to Digital Betacam by Video Transfer Inc., Boston. Digitized to uncompressed 8-bit Quicktime (.mov). Edited on Final Cut Pro 6.1, compressed with Apple Compressor. Additional specs on streaming clips: MPEG-4 improved for fast cable streaming; Key frame interval 75; bitrate HIGH UBR; streaming hints enabled; reverse telecine frame control.