Home Movie: 097131 (silent)

Description: Pineapple packaging and shrimping near Palacios, Texas. Includes images of Latina/o/x/e workers offloading and processing pineapples, fishermen heading out on a shrimp fishing expedition, and more.

Can notes: "Palacios #1"
Reel note: "#4"

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Subjects: 1940s, Labor, Food, Shipping, People of African origin or descent, Latina/o/x/e and/or Hispanic people, Fishing and fisheries, Boats and boating, Extractive industries

Tags: approaching Palacios City Limit sign filmed from automobile; woman posing with Palacios City Limit sign; filmed from boat; boat rides; 1940s fashion; women boarding boat; fishing vessell "Success"; Benito Fernandez pineapple boat; offloading pineapples onto dock; women's labor; women processing pineapples in factory; workers of color; fishing boats in marina; possibly Mexican American people; shrimp fishing; fishing nets; The Colter Corporation sign; Port Lavaca Municipal Mkt. sign; sunsets; sea stars; crabs; sharks; fishing industry; shrimp fishery; shrimpers; shrimping; hats; headscarves; boat "Success"; ports; harbors; pineapples on conveyor belt; women slicing pineapples; high angle view of factory floor; waving at camera; SS George Gipp; ship docked at pier; "Texas No. 8" launch; industry; gulls following fishing boat; man mending fishing net; smoking cigarettes

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Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Unidentified Home Movie Collection PC-0297, Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection

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

Production Date: circa 1946

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Geographical Location: USA; Texas; Palacios, Texas; Port Lavaca, Texas; Gulf of Mexico

Genre/Form: home movie

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Film Format: 16mm film

Element: reversal, original

Color: color

Color Process: Kodachrome

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: triangle circle

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 347