# \[Home Movies: Pietsch Collection: Santa Monica, California, 1941 - 1942\]

Mr. Pietsch holding camera Home exteriors, Santa Monica, California Mr. Pietsch in new car / Mrs. Pietsch, outside 1142 26th Street, Santa Monica Demonstration of pull-down convertible top, Mr. and Mrs. P. both posing in auto CU portraits of family members: Mr. and Mrs. Pietsch and Mrs. Pietsch's mother, long solo portraits Park and lagoon scenes Friends goofing on couch (Halloween party with Greenes, Hudsons and Webers, etc.) Hollywood at night: nighttime neon signs, including: Mocambo (dark), Ciro's, Robert's, CBS, Earl Carroll Theatre, NBC, News-View Newsreel Theatre with marquee indicating "War News," Earl Carroll's (detail), NBC, Fly TWA the Transcontinental Airline, Eastside "Harry" restaurant (drive-in?) Title: "Our New Home" two-story house in Santa Monica with balcony an apartment at 2011 California Street (note this is around the corner from Bertolt Brecht and Helene Weigel's house from the same period) Mr. Pietsch reading Christmas 1941: roaring fire in fireplace Long flower garden sequence Mrs. Pietsch drinking beer; Mr. Pietsch working on model fighter airplanes, seated on patio in his underwer Great shots of Mrs. Pietsch's hand holding model fighter plane in the air Social time with friends, drinking beer in the garden Flower garden portraits Friends: the Kempferts, drive up, park, exit automobile (Christmas, 1941) Supper at Kuhariches: backyard grilling Closeups of Mrs. Pietsch and her mother (F. Gosnell ?) "Paul J Howard's California Flowerland" (circular…

- Kind: Home movie
- Year: 1941
- By: Pietsch, John
- Genres: Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/6270HMPietschCollectionSantaMonicaCalifornia1941194201010018)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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