Home Movie: Leong Collection: 005399 (silent)

Description: An extended Chinese American family's leisure activities and celebrations through the seasons in the San Francisco Bay Area and other parts of California. Features a large party with a seemingly endless parade of guests arriving at a banquet or function hall, the arrival of a new baby, and large family meals at the holidays.

notes on film can:
Sept. 1959
Clear Lake
Christian Brother winery
Baby Jennifer 1st month - 1959
Grandpa's birthday 1959
Thanksgiving over [?] 1959
Xmas 1959 New Year 1959-60
Grandma's 1960
[Marine Land ?] 1960

The content of this film is in multiple files due to scanning issue.


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Subjects: 1950s, 1960s, Children, Celebrations and ceremonies, Families, Holidays, People of Asian and Pacific Islander origin or descent

Tags: walking up steep hill; 1950s cars; two-tone cars; driving POV on Marina District street approaching Golden Gate Bridge; Golden Gate Bridge; toll plazas; sightseeing; Marin Headlands; vista points; ice cream cones; sailor suits; summer; souvenir shops; shopping; storefronts; Now Playing 45s EPs LPs sign; phonograph records; children in sunglasses; swing sets; playgrounds; swimming; rafting; bathing suits; bathing caps; flotation belts; walking toward camera; Asian American families; lawn chairs; ping pong; children with cameras; fathers and children; domestic exteriors; motor boat in driveway; station wagons; shaky cam; newborn babies; infants; older sister holding newborn baby; changing tables; banquet halls; occasion halls; people arriving; party guests; fancy dress; squinting at camera lights; white gloves; family gatherings; birthday parties; white table clothes; large gatherings; people eating together; buns; chopsticks; bowl of rice; saying goodbye; people leaving hall; cigar boxes; shuffling deck of cards; framed family portraits on wall; holiday meals at home; Thanksgiving dinners; dinner tables; holiday dinners; watching television; ottomans; living rooms; domestic interiors; kitchens; women doing dishes in the kitchen; women's domestic labor; rotating Christmas trees; tinsel; champagne toasts; distributing Christmas presents; TV trays; TV sets; birthday cakes; sheet cakes; blowing out candles; children's armchairs; babies; couches; Marineland of the Pacific; penguins; orcas; dolphins; animal performances; spectators; children skipping; schoolyards; choreographed dances; folk dances; pageants; school performances; gender roles; cateye sunglasses; crinolines; babies crawling; high chairs; baby on swing; public swimming pools; picnic blankets; pool slides; Asian American people; Chinese American people

Film Sponsor:

Creator: Leong Family

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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: 1959-1960

Release Date:

Geographical Location: USA; California; San Francisco, California; Clearlake, California; Rancho Palos Verdes, California

Genre/Form: home movie

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Film Format: 8mm film

Element: original, reversal

Color: color

Color Process: Kodachrome

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: circle circle

Frame Rate: 12 fps,16 fps

Length (feet): 501