Home Movie: 098542 (silent)

Description: African American domestic workers feature prominently in scenes of a wealthy white family with children celebrating Christmas and Easter, sledding in the yard, and playing with rabbits.

Can marked: "Xmas, Easter, May, Maury"

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Subjects: 1920s,1930s,Families,Leisure and recreation,Holidays,Domestic life,Children,People of African origin or descent

Tags: snow; winter; sledding; African American people; Black domestic workers in white families; Christmas trees; bob cuts; wind-up toys; smoking; grandfathers and grandchildren; girls playing with dolls; bunny rabbits; Easter bunnies; chicks; bath time; Easter; siblings; toys; giant Christmas tree; grandparents and grandchildren; girls holding bunnies; close-ups; parasols; paper curlers; ringlets in hair; bedtime; lounge chairs; wicker furniture

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Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Unidentified Home Movie Collection PC-0139, Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection

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

Production Date: circa 1929

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Geographical Location: USA

Genre/Form: home movie

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Film Format: 16mm film

Element: reversal

Color: b&w

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Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: plus

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 221