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The Nantucket shown above was originally a Navy gunboat but from 1909 to 1941 was a Massachusetts Maritime Academy training ship. My dad boarded her in September 1932 as a cadet.
One of the items he carried with him was a movie camera. He shot films of the ship he trained on with his future brother-in-law, my mother’s brother. Later, after he graduated, he took film of his children but also made a fun fictional film about hunting a rare bird in the jungle. My mother played an elephant with big floppy ears or perhaps she was the bird; I don’t remember much more than that. We all had great fun watching that and the Nantucket films.
Although my father did transfer those films to video tape or DVD before he died, unfortunately all copies seem to be lost. Yet another thing I wish I had thought about years ago.
