Item Data
- Collection Title: Loraine Sumner Collection
- Item Title: "Friends and Lovers"
- ID Number: LS-008
- Date Range: 1955-1975
- Description: Loraine Sumner's footage friends & lovers with a little family mixed in.
- Biographical/Historical Note: See collection level, Biographical/Historical Notes. And/or list other friends, the Esquirettes schedule, etc.
- Genres: Home Movies
- Places: Convent Station, New Jersey; Massachusetts
- Access & Use: Contact Lesbian Home Movie Project (LHMP) info@lesbianhomemovieproject.org. No re-use without permission. LHMP must contact film donor & participants with regard to any re-use.
- Color or B&W: Mix
- Related Versions: "Friends and Lovers," Loraine Sumner Collection, Lesbian Home Movie Project, LHMP)/
- Running Time: 11:39
- Rights: Lesbian Home Movie Project (LHMP) holds all rights. Donor must approve all uses.
- Sound: Silent
- Subjects: Lesbians, Lesbian mothers, Lesbian nuns
- Creators: Loraine Sumner
- Collaborators & Participants: For further information or if you or friends took part in these events, be great if you emailed us at info@lesbianhomemovieproject.org & let us know. We'll share your input if that's okay, or just preserve it.
- Source Format: 8mm, Super 8
- Format: 8mm, Super 8
- Viewing Log: Pilgrims -- Plimouth Plantation, Plymouth, Massachusetts. High school friend Muriel Hall in red coat. Pan. Woman in red coat. More pans. Ocean. Eyes. Nuns in parking lot. Postulants. Walking with congregants. Sister Winnie -- Winnie Kelly -- is among them. She played on Loraine's first Esquirettes team. Later joined the convent where she remained for the rest of her life. Nun closing car door. Loraine's first home of her own, a mobile home in Hingham, MA. Mantle or table with trophies, hung with Christmas cards. Debbie. Teammates. Faith Newcomb in blue parka. Gay male friends Louie & Charlie dressed up as Father Time and New Year. Postie , one of Loraine's players, in white pajama shirt shirt with red trim & red pajama bottoms. Play wrestling at camp. Debbie doing homework, under friend's supervision. Christmas tree. Woman lying on her stomach in doorway at camp. She puts her hands over her head. Women wrestling & horsing around indoors. Friend helps Debbie with homework. Christmas tree and cards. Brown & white dog walking around. Debbie playing toy pool with Loraine's friends. Debbie in pjs covering her eyes. Dog lying on carpet. Camping out. Big tent. Friends at a picnic table. Softball on road. Camp fire. Spilled corn. Debbie horsing around. Back of car filled with food. Faith Newcomb. Loraine in "Coach" sweat shirt, wresting one woman after another on her team to the ground as two dogs walk around nonplussed. Toy truck in front of tent. Loraine grabs for Loraine again. She gets away. Loraine takes on the next one. Then Linda Lundin. Faith & Linda on the ground laughing. And again. Picking up something from the ground and putting it into a pan.
4:54 Tippling young woman who then wrestles a little, Jean Kenney