Ruth Storm

Item Data

  • Collection Title: Ruth Storm Collection
  • Item Title: Smokies
  • ID Number: RS-017
  • Date Range: c. 1950s
  • Description: Storm & a group of women friends visit tourist spots along the Blue Ridge Parkway.
  • Biographical/Historical Note: Storm would have been in her 60s when she shot this footage. She was still teaching, we think, so perhaps this was taken on a trip with fellow teachers. http://www.dcr.virginia.gov/state-parks/natural-bridge#general_information https://www.nps.gov/grsm/planyourvisit/nfg.htm https://www.blueridgeparkway.org/
  • Genres: Amateur Films, Travel documentary,
  • Places: Newfound Gap, Tennessee; Natural Bridge, Viirginia; Great Smoky Mountains
  • Access & Use: Contact Lesbian Home Movie Project (LHMP) info@lesbianhomemovieproject.org. No re-use without permission.
  • Color or B&W: Color
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  • Running Time: 15:19
  • Rights: Lesbian Home Movie Project (LHMP) holds all rights.
  • Sound: Silent
  • Subjects: Lesbians, Auto travel
  • Creators: Ruth Huntington Storm (1888-1981)
  • Collaborators & Participants:
  • Source Format: 16mm
  • Format: 16mm
  • Viewing Log: Aerial landscape views, mountains, river valley. Scenes around Natural Bridge, Virginia. In town. At chasm. On viewing platform. Natural Bridge, Virginia. People at an overlook. At a waterfall. Mountain road. People in a car. 10:16 Newfound Gap Elevation 5,048. 4 women on the trail. Small waterfall, pink flowers. "We Make Anything in Wood Except Wooden Nickels & Blockheads." Cabin. Stream. Pigs in farmyard. Sagging barn. Cabin.