Loraine Sumner

Item Data

  • Collection Title: Loraine Sumner Collection
  • Item Title: Loraine Sumner, Reel 6
  • ID Number: LS-006
  • Date Range: c. 1969-1974
  • Description: Referee & coach Loraine Sumner's 8mm bird's eye view of life before & after Title IX. Fast pitches, shot puts, camping trips, life as a lesbian mother, family weddings, and lots of horsing around. Includes minor footage of Hall of Famer Joan Joyce. Drugstore-jumbled 8mm footage.
  • Biographical/Historical Note: See collection level, Biographical/Historical Notes.
  • Genres: Home Movies, Amateur Films
  • Places: Ausuble Chasm, Keeseville, New York; Orlando, Florida
  • 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: Color
  • Related Versions: Reel 6, Loraine Sumner Collection, Lesbian Home Movie Project (LHMP).
  • Running Time: 31:22
  • Rights: Lesbian Home Movie Project (LHMP) holds all rights. Donor must approve all uses.
  • Sound: Silent
  • Subjects: Fastpitch softball, Women's sports, Lesbian mothers
  • Creators: Loraine Sumner
  • Collaborators & Participants: Andi Lyons, Track & Field, Fontbonne Academy For further information or if you or friends took part in this event, 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: Super 8mm
  • Format: Super 8mm
  • Viewing Log: Reel 6 Huddle. Pitchers may include Jackie Pimentel and Joan Joyce. Tower Day Camp horseback riding. Women with dogs. More horses Disney Magic Kingdom, Orlando, FL. Car trip. Debbie ready for prom with date. Shack, water, trees, derris wheel, pontoon. Disneyland again Blackout. Aerial views. 9:31-10:25 Esquirettes game, Loraine Sumner is playing because another player, Jackie Pimentel, broke a finger. Young woman in snow in green jacket & black dog. Geese. (Ducks?) (Sumner's Abington home, which she bought after the mobile home.) Fontbonne Academy game. Loraine, "They were very prim & proper. They weren't really athletes. You crossed in front of them, they would say, 'Excuse me.'" 15:48 Track & Field, Fontbonne Academy, early 1970s. "Andi Lyons did the shot put. . . . In fact, she won that too." After her turn, Andi walks up a grassy hill and falls on the grass. Girls sitting on grass clapping, about to watch Native American dance. Bridge. Thousand Islands? Possibly a trip Loraine & Debbie made with Joan Hamblin to Montreal, Boldt Castle, and Fort Henry. Calliope, 1961 trip to St. Louis and the Ozarks. Debbie in red & white shirt. Zoo. Bears. Lawn chairs, unk dog. Horse, rider. Tractor. Cows in barn. Women on lawn. Child -- Debbie -- being pulled by calf. Cat with head in milk pail. Middle aged women jitterbugging. Older man and woman dancing. Ausuble Chasm. Softball. Women on tennis court. Women on dock. Four women paddling canoe. Sailboat. Duck. Woman pushing something. More ducks. Christmas tree lights in dark room. 27:53 spinning yellow pinwheel with birds on it. Cockatoos? Parrot on debbie's arm? Bear in pond. Moose. Covered wagons. Log cabin. Debbie in white in front of Budweiser wagon. (From St. Louis trip?) Pan of water -- river? -- from boat. Man gets up on water skis. Belly flops. Woman helps girl -- maybe Debbie? get up on water skis. Belly flops. More tries. A few successes. Marina. Dock. Waterfall under bridge.