Home Movie: 097405 (silent)

Description: Content advisory: Felix the Cat animated squence within this reel is a racist piece of commercial animation.

An extremely lighthearted family and their friends and colleagues laugh their way through this reel across scenes of work at a service station in Detroit, and ranging to waterfront fun in the form of fishing, dancing, and clowning around at the Detroit River. Notably, Black employees at the service station appear to be having fun together with their colleagues and in parallel, goofing around for the camera and expressing peals of laughter. Also with the Detroit shoreline, golf and baseball, and a trip to the zoo. Contains commercially produced Felix the Cat animated sequence.

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Subjects: 1930s, Labor, Families, Leisure and recreation, Sports, Animals

Tags: smiling at camera; dogs; woman petting dog; man with pipe waving both hands at camera; Maryland Warren Super Service sign at gas station; gas stations; service stations; hamming it up for camera; performing; performance; man wearing coveralls; sticking tongue out at camera; jazz hands; gesturing with gasoline nozzle; Black labor; Black service station employees; "Blue Swan Beer Co." sign; main streets; many signs; filling up the tank; play fighting; Black worker and white workers goofing together; pretending to box; rainy day; littering; milk bottle on the porch; working-class people; 1930s working clothing; shaking hands; smokestacks; panoramic view; Detroit skyline; water towers; barges; Felix the cat cartoon; animation; baseball fields; Navin Field; spectators in the stands; pitchers; batter; tossing the bat; Lifebuoy billboard; running the bases; dancing for camera; lighthearted people; people being silly; women embrace and dance; waterfront park; child dancing a jig; women and child walking toward camera; handkerchiefs; missing front teeth; LGBTQI research interest; smoking; women mowing grass with push mowers; heavyset woman; woman plays with child; fishing; waterfront fun; displaying fish to camera; cigarette smoking; skipping towards camera; playing golf; golfing; swinging golf clubs; on the links; putting; golf course; sand trap; zoos; bears; promenade; seals; horses; horseback riding; police procession; marching; marching bands; tubas; drums; meadows; wildflowers; tall grasses; rural home; women pose for camera on fence; wooden walkway; catching tadpoles; marshland; fishing poles; acting surprised at fish; rain barrels; rowboats; oars; paddling; goofing for camera; pipes; Black elder walks waterfront smoking a pipe; houseboat; marshy shoreline; gas station scenes; playful scenes; Black men goofing around at service station; jumpsuits; coveralls; zoo scenes; monkeys; tigers; flamingos; hippopotamus; polar bears



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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: circa 1937

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Geographical Location: USA; Michigan; Detroit, Michigan

Genre/Form: home movie

Language: eng

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Film Format: 8mm film

Element: original, print

Color: b&w

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Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: triangle circle, triangle square

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 202