[Home Movies: “Our Stay in Texas: On a Picnic at Landa Park, New Braunfels, Tex., April 1946”]

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Driving POVs, shaky but good, including scene shot through front windshield and a driveby of a Texaco service station; a small dose of other roadside culture scenes (good); woman cooking on outdoor grill with frying pan and spatula; title card “Only Hunger Will Make J R Work”; boy stamping out firewood; title card “The Mc Mullens Were With Us”; various people cooking over grill with flames enveloping pan; CU 4 hamburgers in frying pan on outdoor grill; people arranging picnic table; title card “They Just M E L T [letters angling down] In Your Mouth”; pan around picnic table showing people, 2 men in military uniforms and 2 women, eating; title card “Back to Landa Park Again”; VS swimming pool; then cut to color shots in swimming pool; VS pool scenes, mostly of young boys around diving board; title card “Camp Bullis Bathing Beauties with Maj. Tompkins”; young adult woman in swimsuits and older man sitting together; woman swimming; back to B&W shots of swimming people; CUs young women swimming; title card “Hubba Hub – A! V … -“; women in swimsuits drying off; long shots of lake; MS deer; CU tame deer; girl petting deer; deer looking into camera; VS younger group sitting at picnic table and eating; brief CU hotdogs and hamburgers in frying pan; color footage again with boy swimming; VS children swimming; VS kids and teenagers playing in pool; B&W again with more pool play; color again softer focus, more pool and park play; B&W again in park, younger men pitching baseballs to older man who hits them with stick; home-movies-our-stay-in-texas-on-a-picnic-at-landa-park-new-braunfels-tex-april-1946