Home Movie: 010328 (silent)

Description: Iowa State Fair in the late 1940s, featuring carnival rides, stunt driving, and traveling circus performers.

Can notes: "State Fair"

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Subjects: 1940s, Fairs and festivals, Leisure and recreation, Performances

Tags: State Fair title; clown faces; crowds of people; women; men; children; people walking on the midway; fair grounds; amusement parks; rides; Looper; "Circus Side Show" sign; attractions; Ferris wheels; race tracks; cars; trapeze artists; circus performers; chimpanzees doing tricks; bicycles; stunt driving; fires; Harry Pollak And His Human Torpedo; motorcycles; beer cans; Iowa license plates; acrobats; tight rope walkers; human cannons; Hennies Bros. Shows; merry-go-rounds; Little Dipper ride; Rocket ride; airplane rides; Black performers; African American people; circus workers of color; Fun House sign; police; cops; go-carts; dirt tracks; carnivals; side show posters; "Percilla the monkey girl" sign; "Sword Swallower" sign; "World's Champion Lady Bag Puncher" sign; driving through fire; crashed cars; driving into wall of ice; "Pom Pom Hats" sign; balancing; woman standing on a man's head; automotive stunts

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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: 1947

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Geographical Location: USA; Iowa

Genre/Form: home movie

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Film Format: 8mm film

Element: reversal

Color: color

Color Process: Kodachrome

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: plus circle, square triangle

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 243