Farrington Daniels Jr. Papers, circa 1890-2009

Container Title
Series: Films and Videorecordings
Note: Some of the original 100 foot reels were spliced together by subject and date. See film worksheets for more information about the content of the films.
Subseries: Family and Travel Footage
Madison, Nakoma home movies
AD 965
1926-1929
Note: “Nakoma” home movies, Summer and Winter, children playing, family, neighbors, area, house (now 1129 Waban Hill).
AD 966
1931-1941
Physical Description: Three reels spliced together 
Note: Includes images of family and home--Madison and Minneapolis, 1931; Madison, 1933; Madison family movies, 1934, 1938-1939, 1941.
VHB 481
1931-1987
Note: Daniels family home movies, Madison footage, also contains Ithaca and Chicago (compilation of footage from several films).
AD 967
1939-1951
Note: Madison home on Nakoma, Lake Mendota, downtown; also includes Alice's (and Farrington) honeymoon not in Wisconsin.
AD 968
1938-1957
Physical Description: Four reels spliced together 
Note: Includes “Madison, Wisconsin” family movies, 1938-1939, 1942, 1946; “New Year's Day” family movies, 1942, 1946, 1957; Madison blizzard, Door County beach, 1940-1941; “Miriam and Martin's wedding” (Madison, Wisconsin), 1950 July 8.
VHB 482
1940-1965
Note: Daniels family, “Madison blizzard 1940-1941” (footage from original reel 44, now AD 968), the cabin and beach in Door County.
VBB 831
1950
Note: “Wedding of Miriam Daniels and Martin Ludwig, 1950” takes place in Madison, Wisconsin, getting ready, Daniels' backyard, wedding and receiving line (probably copied from original reel 16, now AD 968).
Door County, Jacksonport cabin home movies
VHB 483
1937 and on
Note: Family movies, Door County, family.
AD 969
1934-1947
Note: Cabin in Door County, lakeshore, family tent camping, swimming, ice skating, Bell family reunion.
AD 970
1940
Physical Description: Two reels spliced together 
Note: Bell family reunion, Door County family scenes, beach, woods, beach, tobogganing, winter, swimming, family. Bells are maternal family.
AD 971
1946, 1951
Note: Jacksonport cabin and family, Farrington and Alice Connecticut, 1951.
AD 972
1951-1952
Note: Daniels family movies, cabin, family, beach.
AD 973
1979-1980; 1965
Physical Description: Two reels spliced together 
Note: Woods, lake, cottage, “Daniels reunion 1965, Jacksonport, Wisconsin,” beach, swimming, picnic, cottage, family.
AD 974
1978, 1987
Note: Door County, Wisconsin, 1978; Pelham, New York, 1987 at the cabin, woods, lakeshore, family, city views probably New York City.
New York, Chicago, Portland, and vacations
AD 975
1930s-1986
Physical Description: Five reels spliced together 
Note: Family at the cabin, lake, 1930-1986; Briu? and Larry wedding, 1948; David E. Bell and backyard, Alvarado Road, Palo Alto, California, Summer 1930; Canadian colored all scenic, 1938; Family at lake edge, circa late 1970s.
AD 976
1930
Note: Daniels in California, Grand Canyon.
AD 977
1934
Physical Description: Four reels spliced together 
Note: “1934 Chicago World's Fair” ice skater jumping barrels, two girls in dresses; Florence and Jim, Alexandria, 1944; Ice skating on a lake, circa 1950; Oberlin, 1944.
1935
AD 978
“Trip to Ithaca and other points East 1935” (I)
Note: Cape Cod, Oberlin, and Chicago; some content the same as AD 979.
AD 979
“Trip to Ithaca and other points East 1935” (II)
Note: Some content is the same as AD 978.
AD 980
1956
Note: Portland, Christmas, George and Betsy, grandparents, Oregon Coast, Dorin and family, newborn Christopher.
AD 981
1964-1969, 1978
Note: “Mohican District Camporee”
AD 982
1964-1966, 1969
Physical Description: Two reels spliced together 
Note: Pelham, New York, boy and house, cub scouts parade, Christmas, sledding, family, Memorial Day, Pelham.
AD 983
1967, 1980-1987
Physical Description: Four reels spliced together 
Note: Family, lake, kids on bikes, city view, “Florida Audubon sanctuary 1980,” Family movies, 1981, Janesville (family), 1987.
Subseries: Research; Army footage
AD 984
Daniels research, United States Army Quality Management (QM) Division, Fort Churchill, Canada minus 35 degrees
Note: Also footage of Korea, 1954.
AD 985
A slow motion study of three combat packs
AD 986
“Field studies of load carrying problems” QM load carrying/Churchill, Yuma, Mount Washington
CC 101
U.S. military in Philippines, 1946
Physical Description: Six reels spliced together 
Note: “Pacific 1940, Okinawa?-Oakland”; “Philippines 1946--#5”; “1946 Al Ronander,” water buffalo, goats; “1946 Philippine Islands”; “1946 Paul Wolfgruber,” secretaries, lab workers; “Philippine Independence Day, 1946,” located in Batangas, celebration, parade, street scenes, GIs; “Trip by Barca to Dr. Orosa's Fruit Plantation on Batangas Bay”.
CC 102
“Philippines,” 1949
Physical Description: Two reels spliced together 
Note: Village scenes, rural landscapes, GIs, doctor activities, trip to Manila, rice crops, rice fields and harvesting, GIs, villages, landscapes, jungle.
AD 987
“Korea, 1954”
Note: Aerial view of valley, city and country scenes, boats, Philippine massacre, skulls and bones.