Home Movie: Leong Collection: 005397 (silent)

Description: Asian American children and families boating and playing in the park at Lake Merritt in Oakland, California in the mid 1940s.

notes on original film box:
OAKLAND
JOE'S HOUSE
To: L.R. Leong Apt #1
801 Broadway St.
San Francisco, Cal.

lab stamp on box (likely processing date):
Gagosian-S Oct. 2 1947

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Subjects: 1940s, People of Asian and Pacific Islander origin or descent, Children, Leisure and recreation, Parks and monuments, Cities, Water

Tags: front steps; family leaving front door and walking down front steps towards camera; multigenerational families; public parks; sitting in grass; toddler licking popsicle; boat docks; row boats; sailing on Lake Merritt; swans; boathouses; Lake Merritt Boathouse; pleasure boats; pleasure cruises; boat tours; ducks; waterfowl; swans; elders and children; park benches; image extends between perforations; children running around at park; Around The Lake 10 cents sign on boat; sunglasses; mothers; parents; Asian American families; Asian American people; Chinese American people

Film Sponsor:

Creator: Leong Family

Credits:

Distributor:

Contributor: Center for Asian American Media

Source Collection: Leong Family Collection PC-0835, Center for Asian American Media Collection, Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection

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

Production Date: circa 1946-1947

Release Date:

Geographical Location: USA; California; Oakland, California; Lake Merritt, Oakland, California

Genre/Form: home movie

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Rights:

Film Format: 8mm film

Element: original, reversal

Color: color

Color Process: Kodachrome

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: triangle circle

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 59