Ted Madara Family 1940 Home movies

2015.303.2059

Ted Madara Family 1940 Home movies

Video recording, DVD copied and returned to donor. No sound. Ted Madara's Family 1940, transferred from 16 mm, 6/2008, Northeast Historic Film. Home movies of family members and friends sailing, fishing,scenes of gulls feeding on a school of fish, seals cavorting, and family rowing, all in and around Northeast and Southwest Harbor and the Cranberry Isles. Includes sailboat headed towards Mount Desert Rock, sailboat race in Southwest Harbor area, picnic on Baker Island. People and items in film include: Florence Hessenbruch, IOD boats in Northeast Harbor, Hermann Hessenbruch, Mount Desert Rock, Frank Faulkingham (Keeper from 1935-1941 on Baker Island), seals, Anna Hessenbruch Madara, Markle Hessenbruch, Edward S. Madara, Ida Hessenbruch, Fir-Lee House (built 1908-1910), Black Island picnic, Polly Hessenbruch. Complete IDs of scenes minute by minute compiled by Ted Madara 2015 in folder. Film may also include a very rare appearance of Mickey Macfarlan's old boat ( in foreground at 16:00). The Hessenbruchs owned the Sutton Island cottage presently (2014) owned by Hartley Rogers ("Fir Lee"). Hessenbruch died 1962, cottage went to Princeton, then Tom __, then Hartley Rogers.

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