Motion Picture MP99-1
Administrative Information
Home movie of a family reunion at the Hornbuckle farm in 1926 (Myra and Mary Colgan are daughters of President Truman's father's sister, Emily Ricks Truman Colgan). This home movie contains footage of relatives of President Truman, including members of the Colgan and Romine family, Martha Ellen Truman (Harry S. Truman's mother), and Mary Jane Truman (Harry S. Truman's sister). The home movie also includes footage of the Bell Isle Boat Races in Detroit in 1928.
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Shot List
- Reel 1
| 00:00 | Home movie of a family reunion at the Hornbuckle farm on old Raytown Road, north of the Blue River, ca 1926. (Myra and Mary Colgan, daughters of President Harry S. Truman’s father’s sister. Emily Ricks Truman Colgan. Myra became Myra Colgan Hornbuckle, Mary became Mary Colgan Romine) | |
| 00:25 | Emily Ricks Truman Colgan is at left in light dress. Lady at right is Mrs. Coon. | |
| 00:39 | Children in hay loft include: Carolyn Crandall (later Mrs. Roy Romine) at right in light dress and Mary Anne Dillon, friend of Carolyn. | |
| 00:45 | Roy Hornbuckle getting out of car. | |
| 00:50 | Ed Dillon in middle by car (tallest of the three men, friend of the family), Rochester Colgan at right. | |
| 00:56 | Melbra Colgan and her son, Rocheste.r | |
| 00:61 | L to R: Lucy Crandall, Myra Hornbuckle, unidentified lady. | |
| 01:17 | Myra Hornbuckle and Ed Dillon. | |
| 0l:18 | L to R: Lucy Crandall, Bess Howard, and Henrietta Ehrke. | |
| 01:48 | Group of men on ground: left, Robert T. Romine, right, Murray T. Colgan; middle (back to camera) Ed Dillon. | |
| 02:14 | Heath Colgan (boy with toy rifle). | |
| 02:23 | Murray T. Colgan. | |
| 02:24 | Mary-Jane Romine (child with kitten). | |
| 02:40 | Roy Romine with milk pails. | |
| 02:42 | Two children, Heath Colgan on lift; Fred R. Colgan on right. | |
| 02:52 | Children somersaulting Mary-Jane Romine and Heath Colgan. | |
| 02:59 | Robert Talbot Romine with dress form. | |
| 03:01 | L to R: Ella Colgan, Mary Jane Truman (sister of Harry S. Truman), Virginia Colgan, dress form, unidentified lady (back to camera). | |
| 03:03 | Robert Romine and Murray Colgan and dress form. | |
| 03:28 | Mary Jane Truman and Milbra Colgan. | |
| 03:45 | Mary Jane Truman, unidentified little girl, and Virginia Colgan. | |
| 03:55 | Martha Ellen Truman (mother of Harry S. Truman) at right; Robert T. Romine. | |
| 04:13 | Mary Jane Truman; Mary-Jane Romine; and Robert T. Romine. | |
| 04:32 | Mary-Jane and Roy Romine, children playing. | |
| 04:51 | Group in front of car, from left to rigth: Martha Ellen Truman, Mary Jane Truman, Myra Hornbuckle, Mary-Jane Romine, unidentified, unidentified, Virginia Colgan, Milbra Colgan. | |
| 05:07 | Myra Hornbuckle. | |
| 05:13 | Mary Jane Truman. | |
| 05:28 | Old Colgan farm, across the hill from the Hornbuckle farm. | |
| 05:37 | Back at the Hornbuckle farm. | |
| 05:58 | “Bell Isle Boat Races" ca. 1928 The boat races were on the Detroit River at the Detroit Yacht Club on Bell Isle. The occasion was a Harmsworth Trophy race where Garr Wood raced a boat against an airplane. The military planes were from Selfridge Field, Mt. Clemons, Michigan. On horse, from left to right; Carolyn Crandall, Mary-Jane Romine, Roy Romine. | |
| 06:39 | James Lofer, relative of Roy Romine. | |
| 10:23 | Roy Romine and his mother, Mary Virgil Colgan Romine, on dock. |