Home Movie: Medicus Collection: 003815: Florida 1939, Reel 1 (silent)

Description: Home movie filmed around Florida in 1939.

Film is extremely degraded from vinegar syndrome; cupped and twisted, with color degradation that lends it an overall surreal look.

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Subjects: Tourism; Leisure and recreation; 1930s; Road trips; Vacations; Animals

Tags: Southern living; orange trees; roadside fruit stands; oranges; orange groves; orchards; Japanese gardens; underwater scenes; gorgeous!!; peacocks; albino peacocks; horseshoe crabs; jellyfish; gulls; collecting seashells; sunhat; sundress; black swans; palm trees; Ringling Bros. winter home; zebras; fancy horse tricks; elephants; horses; warped film, intertitles; Jacksonville Terminal; scenic photo sub; beaches; reading on the beach; band performing on beach; clarinets; accordions; guitars; men playing cards at the beach; circus practice; circus rehearsals; man standing on galloping horse; hippos; hippopotamuses; circus wagons; monkeys; hippos; ducks in a frenzy; feeding ducks; grapefruit; street scenes; signs; retail stores; Kress; Rutland's; X-Ray Shoes; middle-aged white lady gives coin to young Black boy

Film Sponsor:

Creator: Philip Medicus

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Distributor:

Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Prelinger Archives

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

Production Date: 1939

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Geographical Location: Florida; Silver Springs, Florida; Pass-a-Grille, Florida; USA; Jacksonville, Florida; Sarasota, Florida

Genre/Form: home movie

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Film Format: 16mm film

Element: reversal

Color: color

Color Process: tinted, Kodachrome

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

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Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 1607