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I judge that we acquired the Bell & Howell Filmo-8 movie camera in the fall. I had Albert H. Richardson, head of the Works publicity and editor of the Works News, buy it for me, thereby getting a substantial discount. The justification for this was the fact that I planned to use the camera to some extent for taking pictures related to GE business. It was a little gem and perhaps the best small movie camera available. I remember the day Mr. Richardson brought it into our office and presented it to me. I was thrilled to the core at last to be a movie camera owner as well as the owner of such a little beauty, at that. We still have it and as far as I'm aware, it is still perfectly serviceable although the last time we took pictures with it was in 1964 on the South Pacific trip. At any rate, we got busy with it taking shots of the children mainly although there are a few of Willie which still make her cringe when she appears on the screen. The first few reels are in black-and-white. We still have the faithful Plymouth which took us on our memorable 1934 Québec trip. The children are warmly dressed and are leaf-raking, so it's probably in October. And in spite of the season, we go to the Peninsula where Rog in particular has a great time rolling down small sand dunes. Bab is very active, never being still for a moment. She is constantly jumping up and down, moving about. Rog is on the move also but he seems to make his moves in a more leisurely fashion. Willie wears a tweed topcoat and a dark, slouchy, felt hat in some of the shots and in my opinion she looks just great. But she does give an indication of having some gum in her mouth in one and that bothers her. And there is a sequence on the beach where she looks right at the camera up close and makes remarks, several of them, which she thinks is very unflattering for some obscure reason.  She smiles a few times and might have been the Colgate Toothpaste Girl. The final shots in 1936 are taken after the first snow, I should judge, because there are a few leaves still on the trees and shrubbery. But Bab and Rog are out in the yard having a great time making a snowman and getting generally involved in the snow. In fact, Bab is having one of her final swings of the year in the tiny "outdoor gym" we had set up in the backyard.

It must have been along about the year 1936 when we became devotees, along with our circle of close friends, of the somewhat surprising game called "Murder." I say "close friends" because this was a game you would play either with your very close friends or with people whom you scarcely knew at all. I doubt if you would undertake it with people falling in between these two categories. As far as both Willie and I can remember, this game was only played at the Scarboroughs because it was quite hard on the furniture, rugs and accessories of a house and Maybelle Scarborough seemed to be the only one among our friends who was seeming indifferent to this aspect of the game, perhaps because she enjoyed playing it so much.