Home Movie: Coy Collection: 005086 (silent)

Description: Intimate shots of a loving couple exchanging a long kiss; unsupervised children playing with broomsticks and yard scraps; elder women in floral dresses hanging laundry and performing yard work; and many more scenes filmed at home in South Central Los Angeles (South Vermont Avenue between 79th and 82nd Streets) and around Torrance, California. There is detailed documentation of life in the neighborhood and shots of both residential and business streets.

Notes with film state: "Fiesta / #1 / #2 / Black Family / Vernon and [Florence] / Barbara and [John]"

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Subjects: 1960s, People of African origin or descent, Leisure and recreation, Families, Housing, Cities

Tags: image extends between perforations; backyards; roses; garages; laundry; clotheslines; palm trees; patios; man with camera; Polaroid camera; folding chairs; garden hoses; smelling the roses; kissing; women smoking; cigarettes; playing conga drums; kitchens; cooking; birthday cakes; sewing machines; city buses; walking by record shop; Lee Wissler Volkswagen, 8301 South Vermont, Los Angeles; J.B. Finney Used Cars; 8200 block South Vermont Avenue; Pepperdine College, Los Angeles campus, 81st and Vermont; sidewalks; filmed upside down; fire trucks; fish tanks; alarm clocks reading 8:36; filmed through screen window; berets; dogs; kittens; puppies; front yards; dusk; animation; filmed off tv; parakeets; airplanes heading to Los Angeles International Airport, LAX; Los Angeles-style two-story apartment buildings; apartment balconies and parking areas; rooftops; toiletries; birdcages; self filming; sunglasses; shelves of liquor; paint project; man with swisher cigar; multigenerational families; Volkswagen Beetles; Black Volkswagen owners; tropical fish tanks; man reading Information Please Almanac, 1965 edition; Los Angeles street sign 75th St 400W; daily life

Film Sponsor:

Creator: Coy Family

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Distributor:

Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Coy Collection PC-0191, Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection

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

Production Date: circa 1965

Release Date:

Geographical Location: USA; California; Torrance, California; Los Angeles, California; South Central Los Angeles, California

Genre/Form: home movie

Language: eng

Rights:

Film Format: 8mm film

Element: reversal, original

Color: color

Color Process: Kodachrome

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: square circle, triangle circle, triangle triangle

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 489