Home Movie: 003475 (silent)

Description: Historically significant documentation of tribal fishing activity at Wy-am, or Celilo Falls, created in the mid-1940s by a tourist otherwise focused on geology, landforms, water, and plants. Additional locations photographed in this reel both before and after the Wy-am sequence include the Oregon Cascades, northern California, Mount Shasta, including newly filled Shasta Lake, Crater Lake, Mount Hood, and Oregon coast beaches.

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Subjects: 1940s, Leisure and recreation, Indigenous history and culture, Fishing and fisheries, Nature, Infrastructure, Plants, Water

Tags: lakeshore; Cascade mountains; Douglas fir trees; swimming; bathing caps; people with cameras; pair in red canoe; nonbinary; summer; lifeguard stands; wooden docks; diving; lawns; canoeing; playing; wading; cars parked on beach; Oregon coast; beaches; 1940s cars; 1940s clothing; people buried in sand; beach bonfires; dams; Shasta dam; Shasta reservoir; Lake Shasta newly completed; newly filled; empty roads; new bridge; Mount Shasta; mountain canyon; Modoc plateau; Crater Lake; Wizard Island; crater; caldera; Celilo Falls; Wy-am; Indigenous fishing rights; people fishing; fishing platforms; scaffold fishing; aerial platform; Northwest tribes; possible Yakama tribe members; possible Umatilla tribe members; possible Warm Springs tribe members; possible Nez Perce tribe members; salmon; sacred First Food; Columbia River gorge; exit signs; mountains; women gather wildflowers; rock formations; coastal cliffs; coast; wildflowers; rocky coastlines; Castle Crags State Park; woman wears 1940s wideleg pants; tall white flowers; magnolia blossoms; pin curls; Redwood trees; women posing for camera inside hollow of fallen Redwood tree; tree labeled "California," deer; fish hatcheries; waterfalls; Agave blossoms; cactus flowers; woman posing with Buckwheat flowers; woman posing with Buckeye tree; California Native Plants; ladies' hats; Rhododendrons; sunsets; The End title; LGBTQIA research interest;

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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 1946

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Geographical Location: Oregon; USA; Crater Lake, Oregon; Celilo Falls; Columbia River; The Dalles, Oregon; California; Mount Shasta; Shasta Lake, California; Castle Crags State Park

Genre/Form: home movie

Language: eng

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Film Format: 16mm film

Element: reversal

Color: color

Color Process: Kodachrome

Sound or Silent: silent

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Edge Code: square, triangle circle

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 342