College of William & Mary Homecoming Film, November 18, 1939

This video recording was digitized from a film reel featuring College of William & Mary Homecoming activities including the football team playing Washington & Lee and the parade, campus scenes, and an airport (possibly the College Airport). Total running time: 3:46. 16mm. Color, no audio. The film was digitized by Safe Sound Archive in March 2011. The original film is accession 2010.148 from the University Archives Audiovisual Collection (UA 58), series 3, item 24: College of William & Mary Homecoming Film, November 18, 1939; Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William & Mary. For more information: https://swem.wm.edu/research/special-collections .

0:00 : Football game, Fans in stands, male & female cheerleaders, male students dressed as Indians and riding Wampo the horse, marching band;
1:58 : Men & women walking by camera, exiting a building, walking around including in Sunken Garden; women with sailors; women walking toward statue of Lord Botetourt & curtseying;
3:01 : Men at airport walking by and working on airplanes;
3:27 : Homecoming parade.

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• Homecoming
• football
• parade
• cheerleaders
• mascot
• airport
• airplanes
• 1930s
• The College of William & Mary
• Washington and Lee University