A Boat Ride on Webster Lake (Deb's birthday wish)
Dave's Journal / Aug2024
Stumbled upon this in Youtube. Love the vintage look and the bleeding colors. One of the earliest reels of Kodachrome color film (not hand painted or "colorized" B&W film - shot on color film in 1922)!
Note: video will not link you over to YouTube - it runs right here, despite the top banner.
Deciding which wide angle len(es) I should sell..... (the 18mm is not going anywhere!) .....
Took the "back roads" up to Ogunquit, ME. Avoided the horrible Interstate 495. Took longer but infinitely nicer drive.
We love that town. Lots of New England tourists, but the place has a great "vibe" and a fantastic cliff walk along the ocean shore. Small shops, cafes and restaurants. We get up there once or twice a Summer.
The huge maple tree out front just got too big a few years back, and , well, today .....
Back in my youth, this was one of the must see European art house films. I watched it decades ago and I have the DVD but never watched it again until yesterday.
First time (years back) I enjoyed the artsy film feelings, but in retrospect the drama and cruelty of the storyline did not get into my head until this second viewing.
Short version of the storyline: Naiive, innocent, mentally childlike 20YO girl (Guilietta Masina) gets sold (by her desparetly poor mother) to a drunken, worthless, cruel piece of sh## vagabond circus performer (Anthony Quinn). And the plot goes downhill from there.
Despite this storyline, the acting and directing are not dramatic, threatening or intense by modern movie standards, so the cruelty kind of slips by and it jumps into the next "everything's fine" scene.
On the porch today, watching the clouds roll in and scanning a book of Harley Davidson history. Deb, and 3 cats, are napping here and there.
You didn't ask, but ...... a hundred years back, HD offered a belt drive (!!) two-cylinder motorcycle, with a very civilized almost Art Deco design.
Note the seat springs, gear shifter and front shock absorbers. No front brake. Rear break was a pedal-chain-drum design and I believe you could also use pedal power to keep rolling (slowly !) if the engine failed or you ran out of gas.
