Item consists of an Indian family’s home movie featuring the camera zooming in to people on the patio of a snowy house, a man operating a snow plow, snowy forested landscapes, people exiting cars, children throwing snowballs, people operating snowmobiles, snowy cityscape views from the top of Mont Royal, cars driving up Mont Royal, the Mont Royal cross with blue skies and the sun shinning in the background, people walking on snowy trails, a horse and sleighs on trails and pulling up to the Mont Royal chalet, people walking down stairs to a car park, people at a cottage and skiing, people walking across a frozen lake, a light house, the camera spanning across the frozen lake and the sun setting in the background, and ends with a flowing river.
Donor(s) and project contributed description follows: "The following clips are from 1969-71. The reels start in the winter of 1970/71 north of Montreal, at Laurentian Mountains, a known good skiing place. Bala Nundy lived in Montreal at the time just before he got married in 1971. When Bala moved to Montreal he didn’t have any family there and his close friends became his family. Here they rented a cottage for a weekend trip. Since they are all from hot countries without snow they got excited and took many pictures.
The next scenes overlook downtown Montreal; Mont Royal, Jack Cartier Bridge, horse driven buggies, etc. The 8mm footage is sped up like a Chaplin film.
In the next scene, his future wife’s family and their friends appear. This is also in the Laurentian Mountain area in the winter of 1971.
Then there is a clip of Bala downhill skiing for the first time, he hoped that this would make his grandkids laugh in the future. This was taken in 1968 in Chicopee hill near Kitchener, ON.
Then to frozen Lake Erie, and a park in Galt, Ontario (later became Cambridge, Ontario).
Now Bala’s daughter Smita says, ‘You’ll often find her dad sitting down and going through old photos.’ He is known for sharing pictures at family get-togethers and is inspired by his grandkids. He has thousands of pieces of materials and started filming in 1965."
