Home Movie: Leong Collection: 005400 (silent)

Description: The Chinese American Leong family of San Francisco in the late 1950s on outings to Disneyland and the zoo, as well as large community gatherings at the Cumberland Presbyterian Chinese Church on Jackson Street, the annual Hung On Tong picnic, and a birthday party for an elder.

notes on film can:

Amy's Place

Disneyland 1958

Easter 1958

Fleishacker [sic] Zoo

Mother's Day - May Day 1958

Hung On Tong Picnic 1958

Grandma Quan's Birthday 195[8/9? handwriting unclear]

lab stamp: PROCESSED BY KODAK P Apr 59

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Subjects: 1950s, People of Asian and Pacific Islander origin or descent, Families, Leisure and recreation, Children, Celebrations and ceremonies, Parks and monuments, Religion

Tags: Fleishhacker Playfield Zoological Gardens sign; San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in distance; walking down steps; elders; bobby socks; pedestrians on steep San Francisco streets; backyards; clotheslines; children posing on couch in backyard; Disneyland Magic Kingdom; amusement parks; chain link fences; bumper cars; rides; mascots; costumes; women leaving the house; sunglasses; 1950s cars; driving POVs; Chevrolets; crinoline skirts; Cumberland Presbyterian Chinese Church; Sunday best; church photographers; camera on tripod; San Francisco Chinatown; group photos; children walking towards camera; 890 Jackson Medical Dental Building sign; children running around backyard; domestic exteriors; zoos; San Francisco Fleishhacker Zoo; playgrounds; swing sets; graveyards; cemeteries; schoolyards; schoolchildren skipping and dancing in a circle; choreographed dances; pageants; folk dances; partner dancing; May Day; school lunches; tambourines; foggy days; station wagon pulling out of garage; toll booths; toll plazas; "Stop Pay Toll" sign; large picnics; public swimming pools; bathing caps; couple dancing; large family birthday parties; people eating together; chopsticks; lighting birthday candles; sheet cakes; women with cameras; women photographers; children eating on steps; two sisters in pajamas brushing teeth; bedtime; bathrooms; 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: 1958-1959

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Geographical Location: USA; California; San Francisco, California; Anaheim, 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: triangle

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 402