Home Movie: 004715 - Part 1 (silent)

Description: A Midwestern family in the late 1940s plays and explores their family life, home, and region, with visits to elders, attendance at sporting events, visits to farms and orchards, and winter skies. On a road trip the family visits scenic high points of the American West including the Continental Divide, the LDS (Mormon)Temple in Salt Lake City, Mount Rushmore, and a visit to the Mitchell Corn Palace showing the famed 1948 Oscar Howe exterior art.

The content of this film is in two files due to scanning issue.

Further information about Indigenous artist Oscar Howe:

americanindian.si.edu/explore/exhibitions/item?id=985

Postcard image on researchgate:

www.researchgate.net/figure/Oscar-Howes-designs-for-the-1948-Mitchell-South-Dakota-Corn-Palace-Postcard-authors_fig3_322368710 (accessed 5/6/2024)

Note from can:

1.

Jane [---]

1949

THELMA & JESSIE

2.

Part No. 2 of 1949 Trip

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Subjects: 1940s, Families, Leisure and recreation, Tourism, Road trips

Tags: 1940s; wartime Kodachrome; 1940s clothing; children; families; sisters; siblings; packing up car; produce; apple boxes; umbrellas; rainy days; dogs; pets; baby learning to walk; front yards; mowing lawn; gardens; gardening; home maintenance; yard care; children playing; elders; intergenerational activity; boxing; punching bags; boy hitting punching bag; trains; railroads; Southern Pacific train; SP locomotive 671; jump ropes; parades; marching bands; color guards; football stadiums; cities; pigeons; riding on train on lower deck of San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge; Christmas trees; holidays; orchards; peaches; peach trees; twins; mountains; driving POV through Western landscape; Welcome to Utah sign; Great Salt Lake; Salt Lake Utah Temple; Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; Temple Square; LDS Church; "Continental Divide / Monarch Pass" sign; Continental Divide; filmed from moving vehicle; funiculars; bison; deer; Mount Rushmore National Memorial; climbing Mount Rushmore prohibited sign; Mitchell Corn Palace; Oscar Howe; Native American art; Indigenous art; Native American artists; Indigenous artists; home of General Ulysses S. Grant

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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: 1949

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Geographical Location: USA; Utah; Salt Lake City, Utah; Colorado; Iowa; Ohio; California; South Dakota; Mount Rushmore National Memorial; Mitchell, South Dakota; Illinois

Genre/Form: home movie

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Film Format: 8mm film

Element: original

Color: color

Color Process: Kodachrome

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: plus circle

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 596