Title card: “A Wedding in Kastoria.” A band walks towards the camera and down a set of stairs (not visible) for this Jewish wedding. Wedding guests follow behind in a procession, including Lena Elias and Allegra Confino. Everyone is nicely dressed. Brief shot of the synagogue with a sign in Hebrew above. Guests. Title card: “Picnic in honor of Mr. & Mrs. Bocko Mayo tendered by Mr. & Mrs. Calif H. Elias at Mavryotsas.” Adults dance the hora. Others relax on the grass. People sitting at a table toast, celebrate, and smile for the camera. Large group poses for the camera. Title card: “Visiting Relatives in Kastoria**” Family members pose for the camera in front of a stone wall, including Lena and Calev with a baby. Title card: “The main street (Charshee) Kastoria.” Large group of people and children, pose for the camera in and in front of a doorway. A group of men pose on the street. More groups of men pose in chairs and in front of storefronts. Some of them are merchants in aprons, others in suits and hats. Title card: “Bazaar in Kastoria.” Street scenes of a crowded marketplace in Kastoria, shop signs. Many people walk around and stop to pose for the camera. The shops have Greek signs. More scenes from the marketplace. The town crier, Benjamin Honen, walks down the street. More marketplace scenes, mostly a Jewish population. Mrs. Mayo. A man puts a horseshoe on a horse. Merchants. Title card: “Visiting cemetary in Kastoria (Izyara).” Many Kastorians walk on the hillside of a cemetery, posing and waving at the camera, parasols.
Wedding; picnic celebration with local Greek Jews; marketplace
Anna and Bocko Mayo were married in Kastoria, Greece on March 20, 1911. They sailed to New York on the SS Argentina from Patras on July 30, 1911. Anna and Bocko Mayo were married in Kastoria, Greece on March 20, 1911. They sailed to New York on the SS Argentina from Patras on July 30, 1911.
Footage from the Anna and Bocko Mayo Collection was featured in the 2016 documentary"Trezoro" directed by Larry Confino and Lawrence Russo. The film illustrates the Greek Sephardic community of Kastoria. Of the 1000 Jews who lived in Kastoria before the Holocaust, only 35 survived.