This color promotional film “Camp Time, Any Time!” was made by the Girl Scouts of America in 1959. It was shot by Leonard Stark, produced by Carol Hale, and directed by Sidney Meyers. The film shows typical activities at a Girl Scout Camp including canoeing, hiking, art and more. The film emphasizes the importance of city kids, who are raised in the hustle and bustle, getting a chance to explore nature. The actual camp site shown in the film is not identified but it appears to be somewhere in the East. The GSA described the film this way in their catalog: “Girl Scouting, through the work of camping committees, helps make it possible for girls to satisfy the urge to enjoy the world of nature. Troop, day, and established camping are defined. Activities shown are appropriate to the kind of camping, age and readiness of girls, site resources. Among others, we see a nature mobile, rock collecting, clearing a stream, weather station, clay firing at night, canoeing, waterfront, trail signs, primitive unit, songs around the campfire. Girls’ voices, songs, and sounds of nature add reality. Camping is seen in summer amid colorful fall foliage, in sunny and rainy weather.””

Girl Scouts of the United States of America, is a youth organization for girls in the United States and American girls living abroad. Founded by Juliette Gordon Low in 1912, it was organized after Low met Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of Scouting, in 1911.

Opening titles: Camp Time, Any Time! (:15). Girl scouts walk through the woods (:48). Girls in a canoe (1:10). City life (1:45), windvane in the wind (2:21). Branches with leaves in the woods (2:26). A girl’s reflection in the water (2:45). Girls scouts camping (3:01). A Girl Scout rings a dinner triangle; a girl writes in her journal (3:18). Girls gathered outside of a cabin (3:36). Cards with names on them are looked through (3:56). Older people, the camp committee (4:13). Girls leave a bus (4:27). Trees in a forest (4:39). Girls, who are part of the Brownies (a younger Girl Scout group), and their scout leader in the woods play with a branch and leaves, they’re making a nature mobile (4:50). Girls sit and work with rocks (6:04). Clouds in the sky (6:58). Girls work on predicting the weather (7:03). Rain has started, the rain flag is raised (7:47). A counselor watches the girls work on rocks under a tarp during the rain (8:10). A girl sits in her bed (8:54). Girls swim (9:30). A girl learns how to use a new camera with her unit leader (9:48). Girls learn how to row using an oar (9:58). Girls make projects with clay (10:27). A Brownie plays with a rabbit in a cage (11:19). Older girls try and clear a stream of debris (11:37). Girls meet up and talk (12:16). Brownies sit in a circle and listen to their troop leader (12:32). A girl takes pictures with a Kodak Brownie still camera. Girls make makeshift directional signs as part of a game (13:01). A Chinese-American scout peeks out from a tree (13:30). One group finds the other (13:41). A homemade kiln where clay projects are being made (13:58). Girls sleep and are woken up at 4am (14:48). Girls relax and talk on the grass (15:10). Kiln is opened, the projects are looked at (15:36). A girl shows her Kodak pictures to the group (16:03). Fall foliage (16:54). Snow falls (17:13). Girls carry their gear through the woods during the fall season (17:23). Girls remove groceries inside; outside some collect sticks for a campfire (18:09). Girls sweep and clean outside on the steps (18:33). Girls review maps (18:52). Girls set up a tent and learn the proper way how (19:08). Supper on an autumn evening outside near a campfire (19:25). Girls sing around a large campfire (19:54). City life and neon signs in what appears to be Salem, Virginia — home of Elliot Buick pictured (20:24). A campfire burns during a cool evening in the woods as the girls sing around it (20:54). End credits (21:30).

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