Home Movie: 098263 (silent)
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Genre: home movie
Description: Description: A significant span of North American places is collected in this road trip reel that ranges from locations in northern Mexico to a hurricane-damaged Gulf Coast, and into the Jim Crow deep South before turning north to Wisconsin. With street scenes of Ciudad Juarez, emergency response infrastructure and other evidence of Hurricane Audrey, flood footage, and shotgun shacks near the road in Louisiana. With lakeshore recreation at the end of the trip. Content notice for poverty tourism. Reuse Statement: For information on reusing Prelinger Archives footage and obtaining written usage agreements, please visit www.prelinger.com. Subjects: 1950s, Road trips, Natural disasters, Latina/o/x/e and/or Hispanic people, Black history and culture Tags: Mexico street scenes; 1950s cars; parasols; street vendors; variable frame rate; Spanish colonial architecture; park benches; palm trees; billboards; Del Fuerte; wide sidewalks; border towns; bicycles; Catholic churches; bell towers; United States-Mexico border; border crossing at El Paso / Ciudad Juarez; Latino Latina Latinx people; Mexican people; Mayo Bessan's Cadillac Bar; families crossing border; gravel alley; Ramos gin fizzes; swimming pools; hotels; cacti; cactus gardens; driving POVs along rural highway during sunset; driving POVs through Southern highways and landscapes; pump jacks; oil extraction; oil industry; Dr. Pepper billboard advertisement; oak trees; horses grazing near road; U.S. 90 near Beaumont, Texas; Welcome To Louisiana sign; hurricane damage along side of highway; sign Tiger Stadium; disaster-struck area; collapsed buildings; billboards flattened; broken tree trunks; downed tree limbs; Red Cross Disaster Headquarters Operation Hurricane Audrey sign; destroyed homes; damaged infrastructure; damaged barns; damaged water towers; uprooted trees; poverty tourism, shotgun shacks; Black pedestrians walking along highway; Jim Crow; farmers; cultivated fields; African American people; floods; flooding; flooded river, cattle in rivers; cattle swimming; cattle fording river; Palomino horses; You Are Entering Wisconsin sign; lakeshore; swimming; wading; sunbathing; recreation; travel and exploration; Film Sponsor: Creator: Credits: 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: 1957 Release Date: Geographical Location: Mexico; USA; Louisiana; Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Chihuahua; Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua; Tamaulipas; Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas Genre/Form: home movie Language: Rights: Film Format: 8mm film Element: reversal Color: color Color Process: Kodachrome Sound or Silent: silent Film Soundtrack Type: mos Edge Code: square Frame Rate: 16 fps Length (feet): 156
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