1. 1929
It's the Summer of 1929 - the first Summer in the life of Warren Gustave Martens. Unlike most of Gustave's movies, the image quality of this particular sequence is faded and excessively grainy. The culprit is "starch seperation." a type of film decay in which the fine starch granules used to hold the black dye have seperated from the acetate stock and clumped together or flaked off. This brief sequence was apparently shot on an inferior 8mm film stock, then later photographically enlarged to 16mm and edited into this reel. Gustave probably went through the trouble because these were, after all, the earliest movies of his son.

Fortunately, the rest of the reel is in excellent shape.