The following scenes appear at THESE TIMES in the movie:
03:50 - Glimpse of an adult softball game on school ball field
04:58 - Brief view of the school on the hill
07:23 - A glimpse of Main Street in Hamilton, Ohio, looking east toward the Butler County court house.
14:52 - Train approaching, with scenes from the depot
25:35 - School, south entrance with students exiting building, plus school buses and ball diamond
19:56 - Crosley Field; Cincinnati Reds vs. St. Louis Cardinals, see players and fans
20:30 - Baseball game at Somerville
29:30 - Miami University football game / Case vs. Miami ... includes Oxford street views, campus buildings, fans entering stands, game program, football field, band, and scenes from the game.
32:41 - possibly Charles "Chick" Rumpler?
46:06 - some type of celebration, gun salute, women in some type of group attire, parade with horse-drawn floats - appears to have occurred in Oxford, Ohio
53:10 - Girl holding a calendar showing date as Monday, April 25 - that date occurred in 1949.
59:25 - Girl holding a calendar sheet showing date as Sunday, February 11, 1945
1:00:30 - Somerville corporation limit sign alongside roadway
1:10:30 -Scenes of the school ball field and the school building that stood on the hill above the ball field.
1:11:11 - Street scenes, including a St.Rt. 744 sign
1:11:40 - The Somerville Market building
1:11:52 - The Somerville National Bank building
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This "Somerville Community" page was added to the "Area School" section of the Darrtown website in late November 2020, after the discovery of a YouTube page that is devoted to a collection of movies filmed by Samuel Inman of Somerville, in the 1940's.
Mr. Inman owned and operated the Inman Funeral Home, which was located in Somerville. It is obvious that Mr. Inman possessed a keen eye for capturing scenes on his "motion picture" camera.
Seven decades later, Mr. Inman's grandson, Samuel Markey uploaded the movies to YouTube.
ABOVE: This view of Somerville's Main Street looks north from the intersection where St. Rt. 744 turns east toward Jacksonburg, Ohio. The Somerville Bank building stands at the left.
The movies begin with black and white film; partway through, color film appears.
There is background music, however, there is no narration.
The movies appear to have been shot in the 1940’s.
Footage includes street scenes, town folk, cars, clothing styles, activities, Inman funeral home, cemetery, church, holiday celebrations (including toys children received at Christmas), WW II servicemen in uniform, railroad depot scenes, trains passing in the background, and vacation road trips.
Here is the link to the Samuel Inman movies on YouTube
If you can identify any persons, places, or events in the Inman movies, please use the link in the footer of this page to inform the Webmaster.
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