Home Movie: Leong Collection: 005407 (silent)

Description: The Chinese American Leong family of the San Francisco Bay Area at leisure and on vacation. This reel begins with a brief sequence at what is likely the San Francisco International Airport, followed by scenes of dancing and festivities in a schoolyard; a club picnic and cookout at a public park; an elder's birthday party; and summertime spent at swimming pools, camping, playing Mahjong, and visiting the historic mining town of Virginia City, Nevada.

notes on film can:
1963 - Julie H.K.
[--?] Club Picnic
Grandma's Birthday
Echo Lake - 1963

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Subjects: 1960s, Leisure and recreation, Celebrations and ceremonies, People of Asian and Pacific Islander origin or descent, Games and play, Vacations, Aviation and aerospace, Asian and Pacific Islander history and culture

Tags: airports; observation decks; watching planes take off; clouds; helicopters; schoolyards; schoolchildren; school pageants; square dancing; special hats; bouffant hairstyles; picnic blankets; barbecues; BBQs; cookouts; trash cans; swing sets; kerchiefs; jump rope; cigars; goofing for camera; matching outfits; inflatable rafts; public parks; gesturing to camera; elders; birthdays; sheet cakes; grandmother posing with birthday cake; camping; tent cabins; chain link fences; public swimming pools; swimming lessons; bathing caps; beach towels; summer camps; arts and crafts; Mahjong; horseback riding; waving at camera; Old West towns; Totem Trading Post; sno cones; tourism; cat eye sunglasses; inner tubes; summertime; Chinese American people; Asian 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: 1963

Release Date:

Geographical Location: USA; California; Echo Lake, California; Nevada; Virginia City, Nevada; San Francisco, California

Genre/Form: home movie

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Film Format: 8mm film

Element: original, reversal

Color: color

Color Process: Kodachrome II, Kodachrome A

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: triangle triangle, circle triangle

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 380