Rural Ohio & Niagara, 1941

This ca. 1941 home movie captures a rural Ashland County, Ohio, family in Kodachrome or black-and-white, likely showing kids on a farm—feeding chickens, hayrides—or picnicking by a barn. It shifts to a Niagara Falls jaunt, with shaky shots of the roaring cascades, mist rising, and family posing by railings, perhaps aboard the Maid of the Mist. A pre-WWII gem, it blends quiet Midwest life with the thrill of a natural wonder, all through an amateur’s nostalgic lens.