Credits

Filmmaker:
Arthur enjoyed “playing around with film and photography,” often shooting trick shots and animating objects and titles for his film. He built a darkroom in the cellar and would often experiment with double exposures and overlays. He also inadvertently became a historical filmmaker as he documented his time working in Atlantic City during the 30’s – 70’s and the many trips the family would take to New York City, Philadelphia, and other areas along the eastern seaboard. He built a frame to hold his Super 8 camera and would shoot miles of the highway as he drove.

Shotlist

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1981 (0:08) Shot of grain flowing in the wind. Joni is not sure where this video was shot. (0:16) Shots of a lake taken from the seat of a car. (0:37) Virginia uses binoculars to gaze at the other side of the lake. (0:49) Shots from a highway overpass. (1:14) Another shot of Virginia observing the lake. There’s a small house at one end. There’s a small duration of blank screen. (1:42) Shaky camera footage of walking by a fence. (1:50) More footage of the grain. (2:05) Geese and their babies by the lake. (2:34) Another shot of the lake.

1982 (2:42) Now we are at Jini’s house. Most of the family is there to celebrate her 23rd birthday. They are all sitting at the dinner table. (3:03) Shot of the flower centerpiece on the table. (3:16) Shot of birds eating on the pavement. (3:28) Now we are at Easter morning. The family is dressed in their Sunday best as they head off to church.

(3:56) Shot of a rainbow as Arthur and Virginia head to Vermont to visit the Ticonderoga (https://shelburnemuseum.org/collection/steamboat-ticonderoga/). Once again they are with Lois and her husband. (4:07) Dashcam footage through an autumnal forest. (4:22) Car goes through a small toll booth (fare is 50 cents) and over a bridge. (5:11) A bunch of tourists at a rest stop or station. (5:18) An old steam train that says “Central Vermont” (http://www.american-rails.com/central-vermont-railway.html). (5:53) Shot of the large Ticonderoga steamboat. (6:03) A horse carriage for Shelburne Dairy (http://www.shelburnefarms.org/about/farm-products/the-dairy). The view is from some sort of tour carriage. Some old fashioned buildings in the difference. (6:31) A view of the Ticonderoga from the front. (6:42) A view of the tour car. (6:48) Virginia walking down a path. (6:58) Here may be an interior shot of the ship. (7:08) Lois and her husband walking down a path near a cottage. (7:25) People enter a brick clocktower building. (7:34) Lois’ husband picks an apple from a tree. (7:46) A barn with a cartoon turkey on it.

(7:55) Dark footage of the inside of a building. (8:07) Virginia in a stockade. (8:14) Quick shot of Lois. (8:18) Back on the hilly road. The car passes through a small town. (9:21) Family walking around in a building on the side of a hill. (9:32) Back on the road in a mountainous region. (11:39) They pass a sign that says “Rensselaer” which is a college in NY, placing them in that city. Some shots of the highway and buildings in the area.

(12:02) Now we are in St. Augustine, Florida. There’s a horse drawn carriage in front of an old stone structure. (12:06) Quick shot of the fort in the distance (https://www.visitstaugustine.com/thing-to-do/castillo-de-san-marcos). (12:08) Virginia walking down a St. Augustine street. (12:18) Virginia standing in front of the fort. (12:43) A crowd enters through the drawbridge of the fort. (12:48) Shot of the inner square of the fort. (13:05) The view of cannons and the sea from the top of the fort. Virginia walks up to one of the cannons. (13:45) Arthur examines each of the cannons. (14:16) Camera zooms in on a tour group below. (14:28) Virginia walks around the garden of the Lightner Museum (http://lightnermuseum.org/).

(14:49) Now, we see the giant silver ball of EPCOT. Virginia walks down the parking lot. (14:59) We see a sign for the now-closed Universe of Energy attraction (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universe_of_Energy) and the large groups of tourists around. (15:24) View from the cart of a ride (possibly Universe of Energy?). (15:40) Shot of a large fountain with close up of Virginia. (15:55) Two large pyramid structures in the distance as well as a park map. (16:06) Another large futuristic fountain. (16:21) Virginia walks around a rotating decorative hedge. (16:35) View from inside the glass pyramid.
(16:42) Now we are at the Kennedy Space Center, something Arthur would like (as stated by Jini). There are numerous space rockets. (16:57) View of the buildings of the center from the tour bus (https://www.kennedyspacecenter.com/). (17:20) The bus passes right by a large rocket engine. Camera zooms in on numerous launch pads and buildings that pass by. (18:28) Large rocket set up in a launch pad. (19:00) Quick shot of “Launch Complex 39 Launch Record” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennedy_Space_Center_Launch_Complex_39). Then more shots of the pad. (19:16) Shots of some rockets dismantled on the ground. (19:43) Another shot of a large building with an American flag on it. (19:48) Bus is now right up close to the launch pad.

(20:29) Shot of their motel, a Days Inn with a “Tasty World” attached to it. The camera pans all the way around.

(21:06) This next part is something Jini filmed for a college project on the Atlantic City boardwalk (full video is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXNvbo0iox8). It shows two people with horses on the beach. (21:22) A woman looks out over a railing (there’s a billboard for Zaberer’s, a historic boardwalk restaurant: http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/gallery/historical/a-look-back-at-zaberers-restaurant/collection_c608a9ea-2445-11e6-bb03-7b553a47fb0a.html). (21:37) The woman turns around and walks toward the camera. (21:49) She walks across the street to James Saltwater Taffy (https://www.jamescandy.com/). (22:18) She’s looking in the window as a man in sunglasses approaches her and follows her as she walks away. (22:52) The girl starts running away, the camera angles are very dramatic. Footage is a bit dark. (23:18) She runs away from the camera and down some stairs. (23:38) She runs around a corner. (23:58) A car approaches her but the footage gets too dark to tell what is happening.

(24:20) Now we are at Jini’s (first) wedding reception in 1983. They are in the backyard of her parent’s house. She was married to this husband for 18 months. There’s a large yellow tent set up. Joni’s garter is removed and thrown. (24:54) Jini throws her bouquet and people start dancing. (25:36) Shot of some family members seated at the reception.

(25:46) This last scene is Virginia and one of Jini’s nieces in a baby parade with her cousin’s son at Birch Grove Park in Northfield. Virginia is dressed in a Japanese sari. Camera zooms in on the baby in the stroller. (25:55) Shot of the various babies and baby carriages. There’s even a Tarzan themed one. The babies are paraded down the street.