Home Movie: Charles D. Mitchell Collection: 005318 (silent)

Description: Content advisory: Black men and boys are filmed at work in the Jim Crow era of legal segregation showing permissible child labor and enforced poverty. Also seen is a racist caricature in the form of a scarecrow-like figure [00:05:46] dressed to mimic a Black woman.

A white men's golfing trip to the Mid Pines Inn & Golf Club in North Carolina during the era of legal racial segregation in the United States South. Black men and boys are foregrounded in their roles as caddies and are shown engaging in a range of types of labor including carrying and retrieving golf balls from streams and ponds. Also with a trip to a horse racing event and camera tricks.

Can notes:
"Mid-pines '29"

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Subjects: 1920s, Sports, Racism , Social classes, Film and media art, People of African origin or descent, Black history and culture

Tags: Mid Pines Inn & Golf Club; men get out of car and shake hand of club worker; goofing; trick photography; camera tricks; golfing; knickers; knee socks; leapfrog; laying on lawn; napping in sun; white golfers; African American golf caddies; Black people; Black labor; child labor; Black men working in service; African American service workers; segregation; fishing golf balls out of water; deer; racist figure; scarecrow; raptor confined to aviary; Eagle; pine ecosystems; longleaf pine; wetlands; marsh; stream; Pinehurst Jockey Club; harness racing; cameraperson on screen; person filming with motion picture camera; horse racing; racetracks; closeup portraits of men; bow ties; cigarette holders; cigar smoking; mugging for camera; pince-nez; eyeglasses; reverse motion; clown cars;

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Creator: Charles D. Mitchell

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Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Charles D. Mitchell Collection PC-0488, Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection

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

Production Date: 1929

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Geographical Location: USA; Southern Pines, North Carolina; Pinehurst, North Carolina; North Carolina

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: circle circle circle

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 250