Albert Armor home movies MP 001

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Anne's first birthday 1944 June

Film was digitized by the California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP).

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Physical Description: Color, film format: 16 mm, silent.

Scope and Contents

Film depicts Anne Armor's first birthday celebration; Anne playing with her friend Sue Boswell and swimming in the pool at the family's summer cabin in Doyle Springs, California.

Elmer von Glahn showing machinery, tractors, and harvesting 1941

Film was digitized by the California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP).

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Physical Description: Color, film format: 16 mm, silent.

Scope and Contents

Film depicts farmer Elmer von Glahn and the machinery used in his cotton and grain harvesting operation in Corcoran, California.

Doyle 1938

Film was digitized by the California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP).

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Physical Description: Color, film format: 16 mm, silent.

Scope and Contents

Film depicts the Armor family's trip to their cabin in Doyle Springs, California.

Grain harvest 1943

Film was digitized by the California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP).

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Physical Description: Color, film format: 16 mm, silent.

Scope and Contents

Film depicts the harvesting of grain on Elmer von Glahn's farm in Corcoran, California.

Family and folks 1938

Film was digitized by the California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP).

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Physical Description: Color, film format: 16 mm, silent.

Scope and Contents

Film depicts the Armor family at home in Corcoran, California, and a visit to the beach on the Southern California coast with J.G. Boswell's mother and grandmother.

Anne and Bill Armor 1949

Film was digitized by the California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP).

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Physical Description: Color, film format: 16 mm, silent.

Scope and Contents

Film depicts siblings Anne and Bill Armor playing with friends at their family's home in Corcoran, California, and a visit to Pasadena to view the 1949 Rose Parade.

Bill Armor 1946

Film was digitized by the California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP).

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Physical Description: Color, film format: 16 mm, silent.

Scope and Contents

Film depicts Bill Armor's first birthday and first haircut; family life in their Corcoran, California home; and a family trip to their cabin in Doyle Springs, California.

Anne and Bill, birthday, Doyle 1947

Film was digitized by the California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP).

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Physical Description: Color, film format: 16 mm, silent.

Scope and Contents

Film depicts siblings Anne and Bill Armor at a birthday party with friends and vacationing at their family's summer cabin in Doyle Springs, California.

Easter 1939

Film was digitized by the California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP).

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Physical Description: Color, film format: 16 mm, silent.

Scope and Contents

Film depicts the Armor family's Easter holiday in 1939.

Christmas, La Quinta 1947

Film was digitized by the California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP).

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Physical Description: Color, film format: 16 mm, silent.

Scope and Contents

Film depicts the Armor's trip to the La Quinta Resort in La Quinta, California, and Christmas at the Armor family home in Corcoran, California, in 1947.

Anne and Bill Armor, Summer 1948

Film was digitized by the California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP).

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Physical Description: Color, film format: 16 mm, silent.

Scope and Contents

Film depicts siblings Anne and Bill Armor through the summer of 1948. In the film Anne and Bill play dress up, celebrate Anne's fifth birthday and Bill's third birthday, attend a wedding where Anne is the flower girl, and celebrate Anne's first day of school.

Elmer von Glahn on Gates Ranch 1944

Film was digitized by the California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP).

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Physical Description: Color, film format: 16 mm, silent.

Scope and Contents

Film depicts Elmer von Glahn pumping water, dredging an irrigation ditch and planting seeds on his farm in Corcoran, California.

Anne and Bill 1945

Film was digitized by the California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP).

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Physical Description: Color, film format: 16 mm, silent.

Scope and Contents

Film depicts Anne and Bill Armor playing at their home in Corcoran, California, and at the family's summer cabin in Doyle Springs, California.

World's Fair, '39, Rose Bowl, Christmas 1939

Film was digitized by the California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP).

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Physical Description: Color, film format: 16 mm, silent.

Scope and Contents

Film includes footage taken at the Golden Gate International Exposition in 1939 in San Francisco, the Rose Bowl Parade and football game in Pasadena, and the Armor family Christmas at their home in Corcoran, California.

Love life and growth of cotton circa 1935-1945

Film was digitized by the California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP).

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Physical Description: Color, film format: 16 mm, silent.

Scope and Contents

Film depicts the stages of growth in the life of cotton from the planting of seeds to the harvesting. The cotton was harvested for the J.G. Boswell Company in Corcoran, California.

Baby in playpen 1944

Film was digitized by the California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP).

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Physical Description: Color, film format: 16 mm, silent.

Scope and Contents

Film depicts Anne Armor's baptism and includes footage of Anne as a very young girl at her family's home in Corcoran, California.

Diary of Anne Armor 1943

Film was digitized by the California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP).

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Physical Description: Color, film format: 16 mm, silent.

Scope and Contents

Film depicts newborn Anne Armor's first days upon arrival at the family home in Corcoran, California and her first trip to the family's cabin in Doyle Springs, California.

Pelicans, Tulare Lake, flood scenes at Doyle 1938

Film was digitized by the California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP).

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Physical Description: Color, film format: 16 mm, silent.

Scope and Contents

Film depicts a drive along Tulare Lake, flocks of pelicans at Tulare Lake, farm scenes and levees in the Central Valley, and flooding at Doyle Springs, Calfornia.

Cotton and cattle 1943

Film was digitized by the California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP).

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Physical Description: Color, film format: 16 mm, silent.

Scope and Contents

Film contains footage of cotton harvesting, weighing of cotton bales, cattle pens and cattle branding on the Elmer von Glahn farm in Corcoran, California.

Anne and Bill Armor at Doyle 1949

Film was digitized by the California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP).

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Physical Description: Color, film format: 16 mm, silent.

Scope and Contents

Film depicts siblings Anne and Bill Armor at their family's summer cabin in Doyle Springs, California. Activities include riding ponies, climbing rocks, a barbeque and playing in the Tule River.

Grain 1946

Film was digitized by the California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP).

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Physical Description: Color, film format: 16 mm, silent.

Scope and Contents

Film includes footage of Tulare Lake, possibly the Kern River, and methods of irrigation for the harvesting of grain in Corcoran, California, by Elmer von Glahn.

Kings River, gliders, pelicans, and miscellany undated

Film was digitized by the California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP).

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Physical Description: Color, film format: 16 mm, silent.

Scope and Contents

Film includes various scenes filmed in the Central Valley of California including the Kings River, pelicans (possibly at Tulare Lake), and gliders in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada.

Cotton 1943

Film was digitized by the California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP).

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Physical Description: Color, film format: 16 mm, silent.

Scope and Contents

Film depicts cotton planting, weeding, picking and mechanical harvesting on Elmer von Glahn's farm in Corcoran, California.

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