V034: Home Movies
Non-commercial, silent.
VHS (NTSC), b/w & color, 12:11 (2 copies)
VHS (NTSC), b/w, positive footage of tennis scenes only (9:14-10:19 description)
U-Matic (NTSC), b/w & color, 12:11 (2 copies)
U-Matic (NTSC), b/w, scenes of Salzburg only (7:35-8:53 description). See below for biographies of persons shown.
| Time | Description |
| 0:00 | inside |
| 0:07 | flowers |
| 0:08 | kittens in teacups |
| 0:36 | Arnold Schoenberg at home (backyard of Rockingham house) with Connie (black hair) smoking cigarettes |
| 0:51 | unidentified boy |
| 0:52 | In Malibu at the home of Serge Hovey, c. 1938 |
| 0:52 | Unidentified man (curly blonde hair) |
| 1:01 | Unidentified man (smoking pipe) and woman (black hair with sunglasses) |
| 1:12 | Frank Waters (black hair, sunglasses) |
| 1:20 | the Heuttigs (man, black hair, smoking pipe; and wife, black hair, sunglasses) lounging |
| 1:25 | Mischa Seligman (young, curly black hair) |
| 1:41 | Ira Gershwin (smoking cigar) |
| 1:50 | Edwin Hubble (older man, receding hairline, with glasses and without) |
| 1:58 | AS, Caroline Fisher (older, glasses), Richard Buhlig (pith helmet) |
| 2:17 | AS |
| 2:38 | AS, Caroline Fisher, unidentified man (pouring drink) |
| 2:50 | AS |
| 3:00 | AS, Nuria Schoenberg (child) and maid passing in background |
| 3:08 | Unidentified woman (blonde) |
| 3:12 | Color footage in Malibu at the home of Serge Hovey |
| 3:12 | AS, Richard Buhlig (pith helmet) |
| 3:39 | AS, Ronald Schoenberg (child), dogs |
| 3:51 | Nuria, Ronald, AS |
| 3:57 | Nuria |
| 3:59 | Nuria with cat |
| 4:06 | Dorothy Brett (woman, dark hair) with cat |
| 4:17 | Robinson Jeffers (black hair) |
| 4:22 | Donnan Jeffers, Robinson Jeffers's son (young, black hair) |
| 4:24 | Jeffers (smoking pipe), with 2 sons Donnan and Garth (twins) |
| 4:38 | Unidentified man, woman |
| 4:48 | Unidentified woman |
| 4:54 | Unidentified man (young, black hair) |
| 4:56 | Bertrand Russell (white hair, smoking pipe), May Romm and maid in background |
| 5:58 | Thomas Mann (hat, sunglasses, suspenders, drinking), sitting at table with unidentified woman (black hair, sunglasses), unidentified man, maid in background |
| 6:24 | Mrs. Pare Lorentz (large woman, lounging) |
| 6:28 | Unidentified woman (young, black hair) [possibly Sonia Levine (Hovey's wife)] |
| 6:32 | Erika Mann (smoking cigarette) sitting |
| 6:34 | Gene Solow (bald, smoking cigar) |
| 6:39 | Thomas Mann (smoking cigar) sitting |
| 6:51 | Stream of water and cave with dogs running |
| 7:04 | Beach house |
| 7:09 | Mrs. McCormick (gray hair, older) |
| 7:16 | Color bars |
| 7:35 | European footage, filmed by Josef Gorner [?] (b/w) |
| 7:35 | AS, Kolisch Quartet (Rudolf Kolisch, Felix Khuner, Eugene Lehner, Benar Heifetz), Josie Kolisch (Rudolf's wife, née Rosanka), and unidentified man on the rooftop in Salzburg?, mid-1920s |
| 8:32 | Street scene in Salzburg, including Mozart's birth house |
| 8:53 | Color bars |
| 9:14 | Mixed doubles tennis, Arnold and Gertrud Schoenberg and Eugene? and Lucca Lehner, late-1930s (negative footage) |
| 10:19 | Color bars |
| 12:02 | End |
Biographies:
(The Honorable) Dorothy Brett: artist, author, friend of D.H. Lawrence
Richard Buhlig (1880-1952): American pianist
Caroline Fisher: UCLA psychology professor
Ira Gershwin (1896-1983): American lyricist
Edwin Hubble (1889-1953): American astronomer; director of Mt. Wilson Observatory, Pasadena
Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962): American poet and dramatist
Kolisch Quartet
- Benar Heifetz (1899-1974): cellist
- Felix Khuner (1906-1991): second violinist
- Rudolf Kolisch (1896-1978): American violinist of Austrian birth; founder of the Kolisch Quartet; AS's brother-in-law
- Eugene Lehner (b. 1906): from 1927-'39 violist of the Kolisch Quartet; later played with the Boston SO
Thomas Mann (1875-1955): German novelist and essayist; lived in the US 1938-'53
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970): British philosopher, mathematician and social reformer; taught at UCLA 1939?-1941
Mischa Seligmann (b. 1921): Son of Maria Seligmann (née Kolisch), Gertrud Schoenberg's sister