Home Movie: Charles Edward Smith Collection: 000463 - color (silent)

Description: Historically significant documentation of internal migration within the U.S., showing the Okies, among other migrant communities, people who had fled dust bowl conditions in Oklahoma. In this reel that group and migrants from cities and from Mexico and elsewhere arrive in California's Central Valley in the 1930s. With documentation of U.S. federal New Deal infrastructure including the Farm Security Administration responding to the conditions generated by the mass migration and the Shafter's Farm Worker's Camp. Documents the development of schools, health clinics, labor camps, sanitation infrastructure, and housing security projects. Includes health clinic interiors and women being educated about reproductive health. Black and white sequences scanned separately in addition to this reel: 204916_Smith_Collection_000463_BW

The content of this film is in multiple files due to scanning issue.

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Subjects: 1930s, Migration, New Deal, Housing, Agriculture, Education, Labor

Tags: passenger train; Kern County landscapes; 1930s cars; New Deal; Great Depression; dust bowl; Okies; migration; environmental refugees; camps; camping; tent cabin; Greeley School sign; Richland School sign; school children leaving school; boarding school buses; students; Farm Security Administration sign; school buses; transportation; infrastructure; housing; families; outhouses; pit toilets; new construction; poverty; impoverished conditions; improvement; Sierra Nevada mountains in distance; Tehachapi mountains in distance; land use; agricultural conversion; irrigation; crops; sky photography; California's Central Valley; people gathered; jobs; food; Black worker at job market; man with fiddle; child with ukelele; health care; education; agriculture; sanitation; sewer system; farm workers; labor camp; pessary; reproductive health; women's health; health clinic; medical research; medical researcher; tent cities; Shafter's Farm Worker's Camp sign; migrant workers; farm worker camps; family at tent cabin; man splits firewood; Agricultural Workers Health And Medical Association sign; communal laundry; medical clinics;

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Creator: Charles Edward Smith

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Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Charles Edward Smith Collection PC-0020, Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection

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

Production Date: 1938; 1939

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Geographical Location: USA; California; Kern County, California; Central Valley, California; Shafter, California

Genre/Form: home movie, documentary, research

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Film Format: 8mm film

Element: reversal, original

Color: color, b&w

Color Process: Kodachrome

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: plus plus, square triangle, plus square

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 235