Home Movie: 000739 (silent)

Description: Images of what appear to be towns along the Texas-Mexico border including agricultural landscapes, street scenes, and other images of rural life. Also includes images of coastal Texas and New Orleans.

Can marked "South."

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Subjects: 1940s, Rural life, Poverty, Agriculture, Tourism, Latina/o/x/e and/or Hispanic history and culture , Latina/o/x/e and/or Hispanic people

Tags: oil derricks; rural landscapes; grackles drinking from creek; palm trees bordering highway; railroad track bordering highway; rural Mexico; small town in Mexico; rural street scenes; bullring; cemetery; Escuela Fronteriza 104 sign (border school); borderlands; Rio Grande; poverty tourism; Texas Experiment Station Agricultural Research sign; woman posing with Mexican people in bull ring; ox-pulled carts; horses; crested caracaras; orange trees; woman picking orange in orange grove; Gulf of Mexico; cattle; pelicans; egrets; birds; Goodyear blimp Reliance (NC-14A); woman walking in garden; boats cruising in marina; backyards; birdbaths; flower gardens; bordertowns; Drive-Inn Bar & Cafe Summer Garden sign; SS Norge Willy; cows; cattle; Chicago Park District boat

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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: circa 1940

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Geographical Location: Mexico; USA; Louisiana; New Orleans, Louisiana; Texas

Genre/Form: home movie

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Film Format: 16mm film

Element: reversal

Color: color, b&w

Color Process: Kodachrome

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: circle circle, square square

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 284