Home Movie: Kitselman Collection: 000538 (silent)

Description: An upper class white family with three children in the late 1920s partakes in recreation by a lake, with scenes of an African American domestic worker watching the children and assisting a woman across a stream.

The home movie likely pictures the Alva L. Kitselman family. Information on their house: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alva_Kitselman_House (accessed October 20, 2025)

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Subjects: 1920s, 1930s, Domestic life, Families, Labor

Tags: middle-aged man resting on porch swing; man napping on sofa; sleeping; baby crawling on lawn; sandboxes; Black caregiver playing with children in lake; African American labor; African American domestic workers; woman and child hold caught fish and walk down dock; Black domestic worker assists white woman across stream; beaches; Black man washing windows; Owl Drug Store; street scenes; cities; small structure; standing on city streets; man washing city store window with squeegee; Mandarin Inn Chop Suey restaurant; C. Cree Gable Furniture store

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Creator: Kitselman Family

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Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Kitselman Collection PC-0366, Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection

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

Production Date: circa 1929; circa 1931

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Geographical Location: USA; Indiana; Muncie, Indiana

Genre/Form: home movie

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Film Format: 16mm film

Element: reversal

Color: b&w

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Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: circle plus, plus

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 185