Home Movie: Phal Collection: 011833 (silent)

Description: American tourists visit Suyula and Monterrey, Mexico. Includes footage of religious processions (possibly Semana Santa celebrations), a Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) political demonstration, and the Cascada Cola de Caballo waterfall. Also includes footage of the Houston Astrodome; the town of Monroe, Louisiana; and more. The reel ends with children at home at Christmas, playing ring around the rosy and other group games.

Note on reel: Lupe's Children - Mexico - Louisiana."
Note in box: "Sayula, Monterey, Chavella ?, Houston Texas, Monroe, La., Lupe's family, [tic tac toe game, Jaerblim, Julissa]"

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Subjects: 1960s, Latina/o/x/e and/or Hispanic people, Parades and processions, Vacations, Tourism, Families, Children

Tags: trains; railroads; filmed from moving vehicle; filmed from train; markets; travel; produce; vendors; town squares; police; political banners; live music; bands; horns; CNOP signs; Confederación Nacional de Organizaciones Populares; Institutional Revolutionary Party; PRI; Partido Revolucionario Institucional; Luis Cuevas; religious processions; possibly Semana Santa; Cerro de la Silla mountain; waterfalls; Cascada Cola de Caballo; riding donkeys; swimming pools; driving POVs across flooded road; beehive hair; cat eye sunglasses; 60s fashion; Houston Astrodome; Texas State Highway 315; Texas Highway 287; main streets; Monroe Post Office; Ouachita River; airports; tarmacs; Delta airplanes; West Monroe sign; aerials; clouds; filmed from airplane window; Latina/o/x/e children dancing; Christmas trees; tinsel; marching bands; clarinets; bouffant hairstyles; Mexican people; possibly Mexican American / Chicana/o/x/e people

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Creator: Phal Family

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Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Phal Collection PC-0096, Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection

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

Production Date: circa 1967

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Geographical Location: Mexico; Jalisco; Sayula, Jalisco; Nuevo León; Monterrey, Nuevo León; USA; Texas; Houston, Texas; Louisiana; Monroe, Louisiana; Shreveport, Louisiana

Genre/Form: home movie

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Film Format: Super 8mm film

Element: reversal, original

Color: color

Color Process: Kodachrome

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: square triangle

Frame Rate: 18 fps

Length (feet): 282