Home Movie: 098776 (silent)

Description: Content advisory: In the Jim Crow South, Black laborers living within legal segregation are photographed at work.

In this Florida landscape reel from the Jim Crow era, circa World War II years, Black workers are shown engaged in a range of types of work including picking, harvesting, and transporting cotton, and timber work. In other sequences, the landscape and natural beauty of Florida area is documented and engaged in a mode of carefree leisure by white tourists, with historic aircraft, orange groves, a visit to an oil field; rides in a glass-bottomed boat, views of the historic Miami waterfront, and hibiscus blossoms.

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Subjects: 1940s, People of African origin or descent, Black history and culture , Tourism, Labor, Extractive industries, Leisure and recreation, Aviation and aerospace, Racism

Tags: filmed from glass bottom boat; filmed from moving vehicle; underwater views; fish swimming; "Jungle Cruise"; diving platform; swimming; bathing suits; Bougainvillea; Florida landscapes; orange grove; oranges on trees; ripe oranges litter the ground; flower gardens; panoramic views; palm trees; breezy; wind in trees; lakes; lagoons; hanging moss; Plantation mansion; azaleas; beaches; sunbathing; bathing caps; Poinsettia growing; docks; seaplanes; sign Pan American Airways System; Boeing B 314; Clipper ships; history of aviation; airports; image extends between perforations; Singing Tower; Bok Tower Gardens; wood ducks swimming; picking oranges from trees; oil derrick pumping surrounded by corn fields; Jim Crow era; Black labor; Black man; African American man driving horse-drawn cart full of fresh picked cotton; cotton plantations; farm workers picking cotton; swimming pools; lawns; woman of color carrying basket load on head; dogs; boat ramps; Black man at boat launch; lumber floating in river; loaded canoe; swamp homesteads; Black community on waterfront; Vizcaya Museum; Miami waterfront; yachts; sailboats; open drawbridge; Atlantic Brown Pelicans; pilings; pelicans balancing on rope lines; young pelicans; hatching year pelicans; filmed from moving vehicle; brief racetrack view; women with hibiscus flowers; Damon Runyon sign; stucco homes; fancy homes;

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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 1943

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Geographical Location: USA; Florida; Palm Beach, Florida

Genre/Form: home movie

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Film Format: 8mm film

Element: reversal

Color: color

Color Process: Kodachrome

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: triangle square, triangle plus, square plus

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 182