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Home movie documenting Ed Feil’s trip to California in 1956. Primarily shows Muscle Beach and people enjoying recreation. Shows people dancing in an outdoor bar, exercising on the beach, and sunbathing. Also features street scenes in Los Angeles and footage of models at a car show.
Edward R. Feil, Daniel Hellerstein, David Hellerstein, Susan Hellerstein, Jonathan Hellerstein, Nellie Feil, Ken Feil, Edward G. Feil, Mary Feil Hellerstein, Beth Rubin, Naomi Feil, Herman Hellerstein
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Home movie of Daniel Hellerstein's 16th birthday party. Daniel is presented with a birthday cake and blows out the candles. His siblings and cousins sit around the dining room table as slices of cake are passed around and the adults look on.
Begins with Ed shooting aerial footage of Cleveland in a small plane piloted by his friend, Charles Long. The film then shows Charles and Ed on their trip to Europe, with scenes from London and Capri, where Charles is joined by a girlfriend. Shares footage with other travelogues to Europe in 1959. Highlights include: people feeding pigeons at Trafalgar Square, passing Windsor Castle, views of Parliament, Big Ben, and crossing the Tower Bridge to see the Tower of London. In Capri, the group goes swimming in the ocean and sunbathes on the rocks.
Edward R. Feil, Vicki Rubin, Beth Rubin, Naomi Feil, Edward G. Feil, Ken Feil, Julius Weil, Helen Kahn Weil
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Home movie of casual birthday celebrations over breakfast for Vicki and Beth at their home. The family is gathered around the kitchen table, where Beth is given cinnamon rolls with birthday candles. Beth opens her presents and is ecstatic to receive a new watch and comedy records. The film then shows Beth at a more formal gathering with extended Weil family receiving a birthday cake (possibly in conjunction with Rosh Hashanah dinner). On another day, Vicki receives a birthday cake and opens presents during breakfast as the family watches. Ends with brief footage of a party with friends.
Edward R. Feil, Harold S. Feil, Mary Feil Hellerstein, George H. Feil, George Feil, Naomi Feil, Leslie Feil, Maren Mansberger Feil, Ellen Feil, Susan Hellerstein, Amy Feil, Daniel Hellerstein, Edward G. Feil, Ken Feil, Betsy Feil
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Home movie of a birthday party for Harold Feil, father of Ed Feil. Shows Harold blowing out the candles on a cake that reads "Happy Birthday Poppa" as the family gathers around the dining room table and the cake is served. The film then shows a bicycle race and cyclists passing by Eddie and Kenny watching. Ends with George Feil with all 5 of his children and Harold in a garden.
Helen Watkins, Samuel Golden, Leroy Kendis, Edward Feil Productions
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Describes the inner emotional world of an aged couple who are frightened by chronic illness and mental disease and suffer from feelings of rejection and helplessness. Tells about their ultimate admission to a home for the aged where rehabilitative therapies help to lead them into a life that is meaningful.
Begins in the Harold Feil home, where Nellie sits reading the paper in the living room. Follows with footage taken from a moving car driving through the town of Lakewood, Ohio.
Edward R. Feil, Naomi Feil, Beth Rubin, Vicki Rubin
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Shows a group of children (including Vicki and Beth) wearing costumes outside in the Feil's yard. Naomi directs them as they perform. The group then performs for a classroom of younger children.
Edward R. Feil, Nellie Feil, Mary Feil Hellerstein, George Feil
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Ed Feil and family attending the Maple Festival, an annual street festival in Chardon, Ohio. Shows Ed, his siblings, and Nellie enjoying food and activities at the festival. The film then shows Ed visiting the Cleveland Museum of Art and views of a frozen Lake Erie.
Sponsored film made for Dalton of America, a cashmere maker headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio. Describes the cashmere making process, beginning with cultivation of fleece from the cashmere goat to design, production, and sales. Emphasizes the luxury, quality, and glamour of Dalton cashmere garments.
Silent footage in and around The Montefiore Home in Cleveland, Ohio. Naomi Feil, who grew up at the Montefiore Home for the Aged, where her father was the administrator and her mother was head of the social services department, can be seen in the opening sequence.
Home movie taken during Ed Feil's military service in World War II. Begins in Allied-occupied Austria, where Ed visits the composer statues in the Stadtpark. Portaits of Lenin and Stalin hang on buildings near the Austrian Parliament. Shows lots of footage taken from a moving train as the men travel through Steyr and western Germany on their way to Le Havre. Extensive shots of rubble and the bombed out landscape across Austria and Germany as well as soldiers on the train.