Home Movie: 000625 (silent)

Description: In the 1930s a white group of adults visits the Philippines in coordination with local hosts, likely representing either a church or an educational organization. The group, with their local hosts, constructs homes, a school, and other buildings in the Santa Cruz region around Manila. Includes scenes of the group interacting closely with their hosts, swimming in a new swimming pool, enjoying a semiformal gathering and dinner with women dressed in Hollywood-style 1930s-era colorful evening gowns. Also with fun swimming, eating, and visiting beaches. With a joyful scene of a Hailili Transit bus serving the new school.

can marked:
"Family Pictures / Jack & Buddie - Rowlands / Swimming / Cavite Picnic / In gathering / Building house"

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Subjects: 1930s, People of Asian and Pacific Islander origin or descent, Education, Housing, Transportation, Nature

Tags: hibiscus; swimming pools; diving platforms; bathing suits; backwards dives; bathing caps; rolling an inner tube; fountains; gingham dress; pouring water from a pitcher; Philipino people and American visitors hanging out together; pastel chiffon dresses; formal dress; sheer dress shirts; semiformal events; group gatherings; group visits; international cooperation; benefit groups; benefit societies; palm trees; sandy beaches; ocean waves; straw hats; striped shirts; 1930s dresses; 1930s swimwear; tying shoelaces; dappled sunshine; concrete mixer; construction sites; beams; underexposed film; hard work; building; construction; hammering nails; ducklings; drying long natural fibers; water buffalo pulling a cart; flowers; drilling holes in wood; dogs; yellow school bus; Halili Transit bus; Grace Park (Manila) on bus; Santa Cruz (Manila) on bus; church groups; benefit groups; service groups; new school building; new homes; tea ceremonies; beach recreation; volunteer work; teenagers leaving new school;

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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: 1944; 1946

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Geographical Location: Philippines; Manila, Philippines

Genre/Form: home movie

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Film Format: 16mm film

Element: positive, reversal

Color: color

Color Process: Kodachrome

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: triangle square, triangle circle

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 428