Home Movie: 000627 (silent)

Genre: home movie

Description: Description: A Romani American family enjoys family time and community banquets with richly laden tables and dancing. The family also takes sightseeing trips to San Francisco, to Reno, and to The Geysers. With excitement around a new baby, and with scenes of barbecues and pig roasts in the family's Southern California home.

cyan lab printing:
PROCESSED BY KODAK HO NOV60
PROCESSED BY KODAK HO AUG58
PROCESSED BY KODAK HO MAR61
PROCESSED BY KODAK HO FEB59

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Subjects: 1950s, 1960s, Families, Road trips, Tourism, Celebrations and ceremonies, Food, Dance, Romani people , Romani history and culture

Tags: dry landscape; quarries; cocktails neon sign; desert watering holes; water truck; The Geysers geothermal field; roadside picnics; road trips; young girl runs toward camera; filmed from moving vehicle; 1950s cars; rocket fins on car; roses; home; white picket fence; pan garage; pan back yard; palm tree; hanging gourds; Fisherman's wharf; Fishermen's Grotto; Alioto's; parking lots; Chinatown; Grant Avenue; neon signs at dusk; boy wearing gag nose; filmed through windshield; driving POVs; The Embarcadero; smoking; neon signs; "Belfast Water" truck; Lost Landscapes; crab market interior; Bay Cruise sign; shaking hands; SFPD; San Francisco police speak with family; backyards; grilling; rotating grills; BBQ; barbecues; waving at camera; Horseshoe Club neon; Reno street scenes; double exposures; soft focus; signs for gaming; Nevada Club; casinos; sidewalks; pedestrians; preparing pig carcass; domestic meat processing; whole pig on spit; spit roasting pig over coals; back yard roasting pits; home exteriors; domestic interiors; covered patios; front yards; carports; dim interiors; poinsettias; clotheslines; tablecloth drying on the line; courtyards; courtyard apartments; storybook architecture; Kennedy bumper sticker; for rent signs; freshly painted apartment buildings; pink apartment building; aquamarine apartment building; decorated table full of food; banquets; banquet halls; bottles of ketchup; women dancing together; circle dances; fancy dress; garlands; parties; swing dances; boogie woogie dances; line dances; taffeta dresses; sparkly taffeta; school gymnasium; man and woman dance together; oversize champage flute; home exteriors; new baby; showing baby to camera; pig carcass in back of car; Fortune Teller sign; Palmistry sign; camera registration artifacts; baby in stroller; more feasting; back yard meals; lunch; patio furniture; braided hair; Romani American people;

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Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Unidentified Home Movie Collection PC-0707, Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection

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

Production Date: circa 1958-1961

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Geographical Location: USA; California; San Francisco, California; Nevada; Reno, Nevada; The Geysers, California; Lake County, California; Sonoma County, California; Southern California; Los Angeles County, California

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: square, triangle, square square

Frame Rate: 18 fps

Length (feet): 396

Online Copy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eaIntIhFwI

Metadata Source:YouTube