Home Movie: 098538 (silent)

Description: Braving freezing temperatures, a large group of men gather at the Meadville, Pennsylvania train depot, apparently to unload Michigan limestone from train cars in the 1920s. Another group, possibly of different men, are shown waiting at the Falconer, New York train depot, perhaps for the same reasons. Later we see farmers picking cotton, an amateur baseball game, and a man measuring plot with a yard stick.


Can marked [describes a different film]:
"Murder / Zachary / Gose / Film Reel"
[in such a way that it is difficult to determine order]

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Subjects: 1920s, Transportation, Agriculture, Land use, Rural life

Tags: railroad workers posing in front of locomotive; train pulling into station; "New Improved Michigan Limestone 50 Car Train For Wyoming County Farmers" sign on train; pan group of well-dressed men posing for camera; crowds watching train pass by; Meadville train station; "Solid Trainload New Improved Michigan Limestone for Crawford County Farmers" sign on train; horsedrawn carts; horsedrawn sleighs; snow on the ground; Falconer train station sign; freight trains passing by camera and in field; two men in big grassy field; tall grasses; amateur baseball games; Byway Dairy Farm FE Bergman sign; farms; barns; man measuring plot with a yard stick; cows grazing in field; cotton fields; picking cotton; steam; cold weather; vertically scratched film; hair in gate; train in rural landscape

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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 1926; circa 1927

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Geographical Location: USA; Ohio; Falconer, New York; New York; Pennsylvania; Meadville, Pennsylvania; Wyoming County, Pennsylvania

Genre/Form: home movie

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Film Format: 16mm film

Element: reversal, original

Color: b&w

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Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: triangle circle, square triangle

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 435