Cornelia Chapin home movies, "Hilltop Happenings, Harpursville, Summer 1932"
Description:
An amateur film found in the Marion Sanford and Cornelia Chapin papers, Archives of American Art. 1 film reel, 16mm, black and white, silent. Amateur footage assembled with intertitles identifying the location and the opening of each scene depicting a day at an upstate New York summer home with Cornelia Chapin and others who are unidentified, doing daily chores and working on a sculpture of a female figure. An artist identified as "Gen" in the intertitles may be the artist Genevieve Kerr Hamlin, another artist with ties to Harpursville. Funding for the preservation of the Cornelia Chapin home movies was provided by the National Film Preservation Foundation.