Home Movie: 004390 (silent)

Description: Footage of an African American family at home and visiting various locations in Southern California, often by car. Includes family members modeling their personal style, footage of airplanes, a Rose Parade, baseball game, and the Watts Towers.

Persistent scratch along left frameline (almost between perforations) sometimes interferes with image.

Can notes: "# 2 / Mar. 1960"

Film: "Processed Mar 60 / Processed Jan 61"

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Subjects: 1960s, People of African origin or descent, Families, Clothing and fashion, Sports, Parades and processions, Car culture

Tags: children; posing for camera on steps of apartment building; fancy dress; airports; planes landing; tarmacs; planes taxiing on tarmac; filmed from moving vehicle; Continental Air Lines aircraft; United Airlines aircraft; Western Airlines aircraft; steering wheel POV; driving POV; bicycles; Black child riding down Los Angeles sidewalk; harbors; boats; Mobil Oil; Pierpoint Landing; Southern California Marine Recreation Center; golden hour; mugging for camera; front lawns; middle-class Black family; walking toward camera; basketball courts; fashion and clothing; baseball; volleyball; children; schoolyards; churches; People's Independent Church of Christ bus; beaches; oil rigs; Pacific Ocean Park scenic open-air bus; Watts Towers of Simon Rodia; Watts Towers Art Center; panning shots; Harbor Freeway; California State Highway 11; freeway driving POV; infrastructure; professional baseball games; road trips; marching bands; Tournament of Roses Parade; majorettes; horses; beauty queens; nuclear missiles float; light leaks; Los Angeles residential neighborhoods; "for sale" sign; road trips; palm trees; driving POV, Southern California coastal road; Palos Verdes Peninsula; Palos Verdes Riviera sign; Wayfarers Chapel; surfers; Marineland of the Pacific sign

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Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Unidentified Home Movie Collection PC-0127, Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection

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

Production Date: circa 1960-1961

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Geographical Location: USA; California; Los Angeles, California; Rancho Palos Verdes, California; Long Beach, California; Pasadena, California; Watts, Los Angeles, California; Palos Verdes Peninsula, California

Genre/Form: home movie

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Film Format: 8mm film

Element: reversal, original

Color: color

Color Process: Kodachrome

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: circle circle

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 245