Home Movie: McGinness Collection: 000432 (silent)

Description: Service station employees having fun and clowning with fire and ladder trucks. Features Texaco gas station workers and the Mattoon, Illinois fire department.

Can notes: "Title: Texaco / Produced by: C. McGinness

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Subjects: 1950s, Automobiles, Fires and firefighting, Extractive industries, Transportation

Tags: car pulling into service station; gasoline pumps; service stations; gasoline supply truck; cars; fire trucks; old-style red fire engine; Texaco oil truck backing into station; ice covered trees; ladder truck; posing for camera; gas stations; workers; mechanics; labor; oil change; burned frames; baseball; stacked oil cans; employees interacting with baseball-themed oil change advertisement; "It's Spring! Change Oil Now!"; smoking at gas station; Texaco employees posing with old fire truck; gas station attendant; car mechanics; auto mechanics; attendant cleaning cars; attendant washing cars; attendant pumping gas; Sky Chief gasoline sign; gasoline price 22.4 cents sign; 1950 Illinois license plate; man posing in service pit under car; goofing around for camera

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Creator: Charles McGinness

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Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Charles McGinness Collection PC-0022, Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection

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

Production Date: 1950

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Geographical Location: USA; Illinois; Mattoon, Illinois

Genre/Form: home movie

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Film Format: 16mm film

Element: original

Color: color, b&w

Color Process: Kodachrome

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: triangle plus, circle circle circle, plus square

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 105