Home Movie: 003790 (silent)

Description: A mid-century African American family from the Baldwin Hills/Crenshaw/Leimert Park area of Los Angeles, California, at home and on the road visiting friends and family.

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Subjects: Leisure and recreation; People of African origin or descent; 1950s; Families; Vacations; Road trips; Black history and culture; Multiracial people

Tags: Ford trucks; moving furniture; speedboat racing; backyard picnics; backyard barbecues; parties; backyards; freeway driving; corner stores; Pacific Ocean; high desert; oil derricks; airport; airplanes; LA baseball hat; waving at camera; Black family; kid in pirate hat; kids eating watermelons; statue of bearded man in red shirt; actual bearded man in red shirt; filmed from moving vehicle; 9th Ave Liquor; Jefferson Boulevard; grandparents; dogs; driving on a desert road; snow-capped mountains; deserts; Joshua trees; father and son matching outfits; rifles; streams; snowmelt; throwing snowballs; small airplanes; kids playing; goofing for camera; posing for camera; boxer dog; out of focus; multigenerational families; guns; driving POV

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Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Unidentified Home Movie Collection PA-0002,Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection

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

Production Date: circa 1955; circa 1957

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Geographical Location: California; USA; Los Angeles, California; Santa Barbara, California

Genre/Form: home movie

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Film Format: 16mm film

Element: reversal

Color: color

Color Process: Kodachrome

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: square

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 395