Home Movie: 003158 (silent)

Description: Black teenagers working on electrical projects in a high school electronics club.

Can marked: "Electronics King Class."

This film was likely shot at Martin Luther King Jr. Senior High School, 3200 East Lafayette Boulevard, Detroit, which was until 1968 known as Eastern High School. Its athletic mascot name was the Crusaders. A student in one scene at 6:19 wears a Crusaders track jacket, and a sign at 0:10 reads "Eastern Electronics Club / E.E.C."

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr._Senior_High_School (accessed May 15, 2025).

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Subjects: 1980s, People of African origin or descent, Youth, Education, Electricity, Hobbies

Tags: Eastern Electronics Club EEC sign; Black teenagers; high schools; television receiver schematics; diagrams; Come Grow With Us sign; wiring; soldering; signal flow; television receivers; TV sets; TV repair; cathode ray tubes; monitors; pliers; labs; wrist watches; sharp dressers; smiling at camera; projects; lockers; mentorship; letterman sweater; leather jackets; teachers; high school interiors; highs school laboratories; classroom interiors; Black teachers; women in electronics; Black technological excellence

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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 1980s

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Geographical Location: USA; Michigan; Detroit, Michigan

Genre/Form: home movie

Language: eng

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Film Format: Super 8mm film

Element: positive

Color: color

Color Process: Kodachrome

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

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Frame Rate: 18 fps

Length (feet): 103