Home Movie: 004677 (silent)

Description: Assembled reel of home movie footage that appears to document one family at home and on vacations in the western United States in the 1930s and 1940s. The reels arrived spliced together with a one-reeler western entitled "The Fearless Ranger" from approximately 4-8 minutes.

Notable scenes include the St. Mary's Chinese School drum corps marching in a parade, and a pet cat leaping playfully through deep snow.

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Subjects: Parades and processions, Military, Tourism, Leisure and recreation, 1930s, 1940s, Vacations

Tags: marching bands; drum majors; drill teams; picnics; softball; little girls playing softball; matching outfits; redwoods; girls wading in a creek; mugging for camera; bathing caps; waving to camera; Bucket of Blood Saloon sign; steam locomotives; trains; railroads; rollerskating; teenagers; holding hands; American flags; girl scouts; scouting; beaches; lakes; costumes; posing for camera; families; penguins; palaces; fountains; people feeding bears in captivity; parades; swimming; sleighs; log cabins; group photos; group portraits; school pictures; group of children in cowboy costumes; stocking caps; playing in snow; snowmen; snow; sledding; snowball fights; family portrait with son in military uniform; tulips; flower gardens; rock formations; rock arches; Welcome to Prescott sign; baton twirlers; costume contests; swimming pools; zoos; elephants; monkeys; seagulls; giraffes; small-gauge railroads; zoo trains; throwing snowballs at camera; deep snow; shoveling snow; girls with doll carriages; straw hats; car washes; bicycles; Christmas trees; cats; cats in the snow; girls; group portrait of girls; drum majorettes; totem poles; westerns; St. Mary's Chinese School SF drum corp; Trees of Mystery; Babe the Blue Ox statue; sightseeing; bath in the sink; man in mining costume; hole for feeding bears; walking toward camera; KNBH Television Channel 4 building; sailors; kids posing for camera; military uniforms

Film Sponsor:

Creator:

Credits: Hollywood Film Enterprises, Inc. presents

"The Fearless Ranger"

Distributor:

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 1937-1948

Release Date:

Geographical Location: Virginia City, Nevada; Nevada; USA; Prescott, Arizona; Arizona; Klamath, California; California; Hollywood, Los Angeles, California; Los Angeles, California

Genre/Form: home movie, fiction

Language: eng

Rights:

Film Format: 8mm film

Element: original

Color: color, b&w

Color Process: Kodachrome, Dupont

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: square circle, plus plus, triangle, plus triangle

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 550