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HP Wells Family Films – Moss Lake, Poker, and Gainesville Community Circus

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This home movie from the 1940s captures scenes of a Wells family day at the lake, likely Moss Lake near Gainesville. The family spends time on the porch of their lake house, where Margie and Harris Peyton Wells play with a dog, then play a lively game of poker. Later, the couples travel to a […]

Too Frightening (Part II)

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This amateur film, made by a young Robert Frye, is titled