Home Movie: Dr. M.R. Hermann Collection: 010482 (silent)

Description: Content warning: features a sequence of Dr. Hermann, an upper-class white man, giving food or money to an African American woman and her three children. The nature of their relationship is unknown, and the woman and children's consent cannot be inferred.

Documentation of a trip to Texas and Oklahoma, showing zoo and park animals, children, a polar bear-themed roadside ice cream stand, and more.

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Subjects: 1930s, Tourism, Children, Animals, People of African origin or descent

Tags: windmills; miniature railroads; small town store (J.W. Hundley Co.); roadside ice cream stand; polar bears; white man with cigar feeding African American children; triplets; white pelicans; swans; kangaroos; goats; zebras; pox; rash on legs; animals; zoos; posing in front of house; children eating; rabbits; dogs; posing for camera; lawns; African American domestic worker;

Film Sponsor:

Creator: Hermann Family

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Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Dr. M.R. Hermann Collection PC-0196, Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection

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

Production Date: 1930; 1931

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Geographical Location: USA; Texas; Oklahoma; Calvin, Oklahoma

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: triangle plus

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 103