Format: Moving Image / Collection: Bernadine Bailey Collection / Unit: IUL Moving Image Archive

Date:: 1957/1964
Main contributors:: Bernadine Bailey
Summary:: Home movie documenting multiple trips Bailey took to Europe between 1957 and 1964. Highlights include pastoral scenes and medieval architecture in Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany ; Bailey boarding the Auguste Piccard mesoscaphe in Lausanne, Switzerland ; public art in Geneva, including the Reformation Wall and Woodrow Wilson Memorial Sphere. In Paris, Bailey visits the Palace of Versailles, Notre Dame, Tuileries Garden, Chartres Cathedral, and the Sorbonne, which she once attended as a student.

Date:: 1955
Summary:: Home movie taken at Angkor Wat in Cambodia. Much of the footage is dark and difficult to see. Buddhist monks in bright robes can be seen around the temple.

Date:: unknown/unknown
Summary:: Footage documenting Bailey's travels to the Canary Islands circa 1971. Shows the seaside landscape and cliffs of Lanzarote. Bailey boards a plane leaving Lanzarote and films and view from the window, including shots of Mount Teide.

Date:: unknown/unknown
Summary:: Footage documenting Bailey's travels to the Canary Islands circa 1971. Features Castillo de San Gabriel and street scenes showcasing local inhabitants and buildings.

Date:: unknown/unknown
Summary:: Shows the Catholic tradition of the Blessing of the Fleet. Priests stand on a dock and bless a fleet of shrimp boats as they sail by while surrounded by a crowd of locals and parishoners. Unknown location, possibly Gulf Coast, South Carolina, or Georgia.

Date:: 1956
Summary:: Shows Bailey at the 1956 Braemar Gathering. She is seated near the pavilion where the Royal family is watching the games.

Date:: 1937
Summary:: Footage of a large group of children having a picnic before visiting the Brookfield Zoo. Followed by scenes of animals in their zoo habitats.

Date:: 1965
Summary:: Home movie taken circa 1965 in an unknown location, likely in Illinois. Shows corn fields next to a large silo. Close-ups of the corn show it is ready for harvest with brown silks. Shows a man working on a tractor in a nearby field.

Date:: 1968
Summary:: Home movie footage of a voyage from Cincinnati to New Orleans that Bailey took aboard the steamboat Delta Queen in early 1968. An article about her experience, "Last Call for the Delta Queen River Cruise," was published in the New York Times in May 1968. The film primarily shows the scenery as the boat cruises down the river and members of the crew working on the ship (including the captain manning the bridge). Features the Delta Queen's calliope as passengers gather to listen. Bailey herself takes a turn at the instrument. On shore, the film documents stops at historic antebellum homes, including McRaven and Oak Alley Plantation. The footage is not edited in chronological order.

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