Home Movie: 000486 (silent)

Description: Home movie featuring a multi-ethnic community in Compton, California enjoying relaxed good times. Includes scenes of birthday parties, backyard leisure, and play.

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Subjects: Leisure and recreation, Suburbia, Children, 1950s, Families, People of Asian and Pacific Islander origin or descent, Games and play

Tags: hearing aids; backyards; laundry; clotheslines; tortie cats; tortoise-shell cats; calico cats; tetherball; sidewalk strut; family group walking down sidewalk; child playing accordion; dolls; gifts; family kisses; familial greetings; multigenerational family group posing for camera; fancy dress; palm trees; churches; fuchsias; birthday cakes; integrated birthday parties; Black, Asian and white children posing in group; multi-ethnic parties; kittens; bibles; "Happy Birthday David"; cake decoration; bike tricks; Hawaiian shirts; moving day; hibiscus; women entering Greyhound bus; saying goodbye; farewells; multi-ethnic families; multi-ethnic children; mixed Asian children; mixed families; Halloween; costumes; school costume parades; cultural appropriation; baby's first haircuts; electric clippers; white picket fences; tricycles; moving boxes of books into house; bicycles; people riding bicycles down sidewalk toward camera; newborn babies; redwood picnic tables; children carrying ladders; lawns; picket fences; smoking; hammering nails; roofing; corrugated metal; DIY projects; do-it-yourself construction; portraits; teachers; P.E.; physical education; human pyramids; gymnastics; tumbling; green lawns; station wagons; kiddie pools; fountains; doves; feeding the birds; white doves; fishing; multi-generational families; hula hoops; baseball diamonds; nose glasses disguises; people with disabilities and those who are who are d/Deaf and/or hard of hearing; Mission San Juan Capistrano

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Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Unidentified Home Movie Collection PC-0378, Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection

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

Production Date: circa 1956-1958

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Geographical Location: USA; California; San Juan Capistrano, California; Compton, California

Genre/Form: home movie

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Film Format: 16mm film

Element: reversal, original

Color: color

Color Process: Kodachrome

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: triangle, circle

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 410