Home Movie: Tullio Pellegrini Collection: 003426 (silent)

Description: White vacationers visit the island of Jamaica, focusing a touristic and at times extractive gaze on interactions with local people. Includes a raft trip down a river and many scenes of rural and city life, especially depictions of young children outside of their school building and in public spaces.

Some footage on this shrunken roll is out of registration.

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Subjects: 1940s, Settler colonialism, Tourism, Rural life, People of African origin or descent, Black history and culture

Tags: poverty tourism; rural communities; horses; carts; palm trees; oxen; rafts; rapids; rivers; tourists riding on wooden raft down rapids; boat tours; filmed from moving boat; camera shutter problems; lush hills; Tower Isle hotel pool; overexposed film; bathing suits; resorts; waterfalls; swimming; dogs; Dalmatians; filmed from a moving vehicle; filmed through windshield; driving POVs down main street; bicycles; piers; cranes; crane moving bundles of sticks; bougainvilleas; shacks; woman carrying load on head alongside of road; milk jugs; baskets; goats; playing cricket; fruit trees; laundry; clotheslines; man climbing tree; eating coconuts; machetes; drinking fresh coconut; schools; schoolchildren; chalk slates; smokestacks; gas stations; coastlines; oceans; waves; Jamaican people; Afro-Caribbean people; banana plants; oxen pulling cart filled with sticks; street scenes; person with camera; children writing on chalk slates; waving at camera

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Creator: Tullio Pellegrini

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Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Tullio Pellegrini Collection PC-0291, Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection

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

Production Date: circa 1949

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Geographical Location: Jamaica; Tower Isle, Jamaica

Genre/Form: home movie

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Film Format: 16mm film

Element: original, reversal

Color: color

Color Process: Kodachrome

Sound or Silent: silent

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Edge Code: plus

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 550