Home Movie: 000236 (silent)

Description: Seemingly wealthy white Americans honeymooning in Mexico and the Bahamas; hunting in the Poconos at the Split Rock Lodge in Pennsylvania; celebrating Christmas with family and a new baby; and more. Includes repeated appearances of people of color in service roles.

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Subjects: 1950s,1960s,Vacations,Tourism,Hunting,Boats and boating,Holidays

Tags: honeymoons; Los Cardenas hotel; resorts; swimming pools; Mexican hotel worker serving breakfast; waiters; Mexican people; Latina/o/x/e and/or Hispanic people; Latinos; water skiing; UNAM; National Autonomous University of Mexico; street vendors; open air markets; convertibles; horse-drawn carriages; white tourists; Pan American Airways planes; airports; fishing; sport fishing; marlin; tourism; tourism industry; Black people; Bahamian people; lighthouses; workers; 1950s fashions; shorts; sandals; hunting rifles; fowl; pheasant hunting; boat rides; Pilot House Club hotel; domestic labor; workers of color; African American domestic workers; African American nannies; Christmas trees; babies; cakes; parties; Baby Boom; Christmas parties; Poconos; pushing strollers; traffic policemen; traffic cops; white gloves; British flag; Union Jack; Bimini Marina; life preservers; boat trips; poodles; wealth; travel; murals; reliefs; public art; waving at camera; holiday dinners; fancy cake; TV tables; dogs

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Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection

Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive

Production Date: 1956–1961

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Geographical Location: Mexico; USA; Bahamas; Florida; Pennsylvania; Pocono Mountains; Mexico City; Quintana Roo; Cancún, Quintana Roo; Florida Keys; Caribbean region

Genre/Form: home movie

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Film Format: 16mm film

Element: positive, original

Color: color

Color Process: Kodachrome

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

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Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 1400