Home Movie: Dr. Samuel Massie Collection: 170242 (silent)

Description: At the home of a noted scientist, family members and friends gather for Christmas and New Year's holidays in a well-appointed living room, dressed up and enjoying cocktails and festive companionship, before a summer sequence shows extended family gathered on a front porch around a new baby and a pair of twins. This well-loved and oft-projected reel is marked throughout by projector burn points.

Biographical profile of Dr. Samuel Massie: ahf.nuclearmuseum.org/ahf/profile/samuel-p-massie-jr/
(accessed 6/5/2024)

Lab stamp: "PROCESSED BY KODAK JAN 59"

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Subjects: 1950s, 1960s, People of African origin or descent, Black history and culture , Science, Celebrations and ceremonies, Holidays

Tags: parties; fancy occasions; reflective wallpaper; well-dressed people; cocktails; underexposed; dark interiors; residential interiors; squinting at camera lights; living rooms; man with a cocktail and cigarette; living room dancing; children in pajamas; noted scientists; atomic scientists; nuclear scientists; Manhattan project scientists; Christmas trees; holiday parties; adults in party hats; fancy dress; ball gowns; New Year's Eve parties; dark frames; cocktail parties; posing for camera; pianos; Christmas songbook; mistletoe; florals; flower arrangements; spring; summer; extended family; new baby; twins; twin boys; porch time; front porches; 901 house number; family sitting together; home exteriors; wood frame homes; Dr. Samuel Massie; multigenerational families; Manhattan Project veteran; African American scientists; African American people; Black scientists; Black professionals; Black families;

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Creator: Dr. Samuel Massie

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Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Dr. Samuel Massie Collection PC-0523, Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection

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

Production Date: circa 1959; circa 1963

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Geographical Location: USA; Tennessee; Nashville, Tennessee

Genre/Form: home movie

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Film Format: 8mm film

Element: positive

Color: color

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Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: circle, square

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 232