Home Movie: Arredondo Collection: 005084 (silent)

Description: Surface streets and highways around Long Beach, Redondo Beach, and other locations in Southern California filmed from a moving vehicle. Also scenes of Latinx/Mexican cultural gatherings and markets. This and other films in the Arredondo collection include historically significant driving point-of-view sequences of South Bay streetscapes.

An article on the restoration of Javier Moreno and Mario Falcon's mural on the outside of El Mercadito "Maravilla" market at L and Hyatt Streets in the Wilmington neighborhood of Los Angeles is here: swapmeetlives.blogspot.com/2013/06/united-wilmington-youth-foundation.html (accessed May 27, 2025).

can notes: "Arredondo- Super 8"
notecard:
"Arredondo Super 8 / C
1. Estar- Picnic
2. Disneyland
3. Downtown
4. crowd
5. 4/78
6. 4/78
7. 4/78
8. 4-14-78
9. 4-25-78"

Reuse Statement: For information on reusing Prelinger Archives footage and obtaining written usage agreements, please visit www.prelinger.com.

Subjects: 1970s, Latina/o/x/e and/or Hispanic people, Latina/o/x/e and/or Hispanic history and culture , Road trips, Leisure and recreation

Tags: city parks; palm trees; gatherings; Latinx families; picnics; wire trashcans; dogs; lawns; roses; Garden Room Steak House Door #1; fountains; covered wagons; filmed through windshield; filmed from moving vehicle; downtown Long Beach; colonial tourism; driving POVs; gulls in parking lot; bicycles; pigeons; parking lots; feeding the birds; monkey on a leash; animal stunts; monkey wearing clothes; booths; craft shows; handmade items; mariachis; guitars; Olvera Street; El Pueblo de Los Angeles; children dancing; busking; rain falling; windshield wipers; Von's; city buses; main streets; downtown Santa Monica; beaches; waves; coastlines; Palos Verdes Peninsula; cliffs; jetties; rocky shores; mural by Javier Moreno and Mario Falcon; La Maravilla Market; "Hyatt Av" Los Angeles street sign; doves; roses; schoolyards; Plush Horse Inn; Plush Pony; Little League; baseball; Brewers banner with beer logo for little league team; ducks in pond; Lost Landscapes

Film Sponsor:

Creator: Arredondo Family

Credits:

Distributor:

Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Arredondo Collection PC-0007, Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection

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

Production Date: 1978-04-14; 1978-04-25

Release Date:

Geographical Location: USA; California; Long Beach, California; Redondo Beach, California; Santa Monica, California; Palos Verdes Peninsula, California; Wilmington, Los Angeles, California

Genre/Form: home movie

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Rights:

Film Format: Super 8mm film

Element: reversal, original

Color: color

Color Process:

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code:

Frame Rate: 18 fps

Length (feet): 452