Hemp Family Film Collection, 1926-1937
Held by The Filson Historical Society
Creator: Hemp Family
Title: Hemp Family Film Collection, 1926-1937
Rights: For information regarding literary and copyright interest for this collection, contact the Collections Department at gro.lacirotsihnoslif@hcraeser
Size of Collection: 10 reels of 16mm black and white film and 1 unknown reel
Location Number: 003PC11
Biographical Note:
Dr. Shirley Thomas Hemp (1892-1976) was a Louisville, Kentucky, optometrist who worked for Paul Johnston Optical Company. He was married to Roxana L. Parious Hemp (1893-1986) and they had one son, Shirley J. Hemp.
Scope and Content Note:
These home movies capture images of the Hemp family and their friends and neighbors in a variety of settings: in their neighborhood on Napoleon Boulevard in Louisville, Ky., family picnics, vacations, historic places. Highlights include 1929 American Legion Parade in Louisville, Kentucky; footage of Charles Lindbergh’s visit to Louisville in 1929; footage of New York City (statue of Liberty from the water, shot of lions in front of the NYPL, blimps flying over the city); two long scenes of a neighbor girl doing the Charleston; and a steamboat race between the Steamer Cincinnati and Steamer America.
A journal kept by the filmmaker recording varying degrees of information (location, year, names) about the films is included in the collection.
Reels 1-10 have been digitized. Reel indexes have been created for each film showing a screenshot for each change of scene. They are kept on the X: drive and have been printed out and put in a binder for easy access.
Access Notes:
The digitized films can be viewed using Filson library computers or accessed through the links below. Film reel 11 must be digitized before it can be accessed.
For reels 1-5, click here for the digitized film.
For reels 6-10, click here for the digitized film.
Reel List:
Reel 1 [Click here to access reel index]
Reel 2 [Click here to access reel index]
Reel 3 [Click here to access reel index]
Reel 4 [Click here to access reel index]
Reel 5 [Click here to access reel index]
Reel 6 [Click here to access reel index]
Reel 7 [Click here to access reel index]
Reel 8 [Click here to access reel index]
Reel 9 [Click here to access reel index]
Reel 10 [Click here to access reel index]
Reel 11
Subject Headings:
Airplanes (1900-1940) reel 9, 10
America (Steamship) reel 1
American Legion. National Convention reel 7
Atlantic City (N.J.) reel 8
Bowman Field (Ky.) reel 2/reel 10
Cave Hill Cemetery (Ky.) reel 10
Charleston (Dance) reel 2, 5
Cherokee park (Louisville, Ky.) reel 5,6
City of Cincinnati (Steamship) reel 1;
Clifty Falls State Park (Ind.) reel 2
Dix River (Ky.) reel 9
Floods–Kentucky–Louisville-1927 reel 5
French Lick Springs Hotel
Lindbergh, Charles Augustus Reel 3
Lookout Mountain (Tenn.) reel 6
Louisville (Ky.) reel 1-10
Marietta (Ga.) reel 6
Napoleon Boulevard (Louisville, Ky.) reel 4, 5
New York (N.Y.) reel 3
Stone Mountain (Ga.) reel 6
Thousand Island Park (N.Y.) reel 7
Washington (D.C.) reel 8
West Baden Springs Hotel (West Baden, Ind.) reel 4