Current review: Colorado newsreel no. 162: A weekend in Colorado

Current review: Colorado newsreel no. 162: A weekend in Colorado

1962-02

Home movie footage of the Current family, with intertitles. Images include a snowy swimming pool and hotel room; footage of Park and Anna Current in their Canon City home, gardening, sewing, and woodworking; and Colorado landscape views from the Denver and Rio Grande railroad to Colorado Springs. Also includes the apartment of Ira Current's sister Grace, including children playing trumpet and piano, and the family showing off the door to the "new fallout shelter" in the backyard. 00:00:00 Opening credits appear. 00:00:12 View of a plane engine and the ground during take-off. The plane eventually travels above the clouds. 00:00:50 View of a heated pool during the winter. A man dips his finger into the pool. 00:01:32 Title card reads “Canon City: A review of “Current” projects—” The scene changes to show Ira Current’s parents grabbing the mail. The film also shows his mother crocheting and father working on wood furniture. 00:02:41 Title card reads “The D.&R.G.W. R.R. to Colorado Springs-.“ Scene changes to an exterior view of a moving train. The scene changes to show the Colorado landscape seen from the perspective of a passenger on the train; Title card reads “Grace’s new apartment” and shows Grace and possibly her sister, Irma walking towards a house. 00:05:24 A young boy opens a piece of paper acting as a title card which reads “Candid Camera” in red and blue ink. The scene changes to show the family talking in a living room. 00:06:33 Two adolescent girls play the piano together. They look like Irma and Grace. 00:07:15 Title cards reads “The new fallout shelter---” and shows Grace opening the small door to a shelter in the backyard. The family practices running from the house and into the shelter where they sit in the dark. The scene changes to views of the Colorado landscape from a moving train. 00:09:16 Aerial view of the ground from a plane and “The End” appears on the screen. 00:09:26 End of recording.

Current, Anna

Current, Elna Grace

Current, Park

Twentieth century

Plains to Peaks Collective

moving image

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