Home Movie: Walter A. Dewey Collection: 001298 (silent)

Description: Tourist journey through the American South, with special attention to sites of the Confederacy. Includes a visit to the First White House of the Confederacy, Confederate monuments, a state house with a Confederate flag, and surreptitious filming of an African American man farming,

Film: "Processed by Kodak P Jun 65"

From notebook: "Reel #30 May 10-June 10 1965; Florida; Houston; New Orleans; Tallahassee"

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Subjects: 1960s, Tourism, Parks and monuments, White supremacy

Tags: Pekingese; dog on woman's lap; pets; brushing dog; desert plants; ocotillos; zoom shots; LBJ Ranch sign; creeks; ranches; lawns; windy; lawn chairs; Houston Astrodome interior and exterior; San Jacinto Monument; United States Post Office / Avery Island, La. sign; Black man on horseback pulling carriage with white tourists; Lake Ponchartrain; river; USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park; Mobile Bay; people carrying grocery bags from car; Wakulla Springs; Wakulla River; Floridan Aquifer; creeks; fish; glass-bottomed boat; catfish; swamps; alligators; birds; Limpkins; Anhingas; State Department of Archives and History; Black workers; people of color; African American people; Black farmer plowing with mule; two women fishing off dock; mowing grass at waterside house; man holding puppy; Southern mansions; Black children playing in front of house; Cedar Grove Open to Tourists sign; plantations; Sheboygan County; sunken boat; parking lots; Sprague steamboat; riverfront marina; Memphis showboat; Mississippi River; river barge traffic; cobblestone roads; brick row houses; SLAY trading company; squirrels; hand feeding squirrel; cowboy hat; cemeteries; gravestones; putting flowers at a grave; elk; white supremacy in home movies; state house with Confederate flag; First White House of the Confederacy; CSA monuments; Confederate monuments; Confederacy tourism; image extends into perforations; Independence Missouri historical plaque; Harry S Truman home; Harry S Truman National Historic Site; storm clouds in prairie sky; clouds over highway; squirrel on sidewalk; unidentified state capitol building

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Creator: Walter A. Dewey

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Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Walter A. Dewey Collection PC-0032, Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection

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

Production Date: 1965-05 through 1965-06

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Geographical Location: USA; Alabama; Montgomery, Alabama; Wisconsin; Holland, Wisconsin; Missouri; Louisiana; New Iberia, Louisiana; New Orleans, Louisiana; Florida; Wakulla Springs, Florida; Texas; Stonewall, Texas; Houston, Texas; Harris County, Texas; Avery Island, Louisiana; Mobile, Alabama; Wakulla County, Florida; Tallahassee, Florida; Vicksburg, Mississippi; Mississippi; Mississippi River; Independence, Missouri

Genre/Form: home movie

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Film Format: 8mm film

Element: reversal, original

Color: color

Color Process: Kodachrome

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: triangle square

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 370