Home Movie: 000628 (silent)

Genre: home movie

Description: Description: Content notice: Pig slaughter.

A Romani American family enjoys recreation and the joys of home life and self employment in the Los Angeles basin with exuberant family celebrations including feasting, dancing, garden and lawn chores, exteriors of family fortune-telling businesses, and a wedding. Opens with a boat ride around the Los Angeles harbor area.

Taped label on can states:
"New Orleans / Boyo's Wedding / Odds & Ends"

cyan lab printing:
PROCESSED BY KODAK HO AUG61
PROCESSED BY KODAK HO MAR61
PROCESSED BY KODAK HO APR61

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Subjects: 1960s, Romani people , Romani history and culture, Families, Boats and boating, Celebrations and ceremonies, Food, Human-animal relationships

Tags: Los Angeles harbor; motorboats; motorboat ride; Terminal Island; oil fields; oil extraction; boat rides; view of oil derricks from small boat; boat POV; filmed from moving boat; going under drawbridge; men care for motorboat; motorboat parked on street; Los Angeles area neighborhood landscape; Roma families; Romani women hanging out in a yard or park with children; picnic tables; 1950s cars; shade from a tree; hiding from camera; dressy occasions; young woman wears wedding dress; pink taffeta; public park; women in fancy traditional dress; sitting on rugs on the grass in the park; backyards; garden hoses; rinsing garage doors; domestic interiors; newborn baby; satin baby bed; doting parents; young couples; feasts; dining room table laden with food; celebratory drinks; toasting camera; feasting; eating; playing with pig's head; waving to camera; rifles mounted on wall; women dancing; women smoking; cigarettes; folk dance; pop dance; dancing to pop or rock music; playing guitars in the living room; men play guitars; elder woman dances; young women dance; floral wallpaper; camera shutter issues; checkerboard linoleum kitchen floor; kitchen interiors; oversize stove for cooking for large groups; stove with three ovens; parrots in flight painted on kitchen walls; chandeliers; coffered ceiling; family businesses; M. Ana Maria Palmistry Readings; deserts; Great Basin or Mojave desert; inland empire; possible San Bernardino County; desert landscapes; folding chairs; fiberglass lampshades; image extends between perforations; celebrations; suburban home; boat name My-Kay; brides; wedding party; decorated cars; lens flares; bridal party poses with car on roadway; car wrapped as wedding gift; red ribbon on car hood; schoolhouse; Ford Fairlaine car; watering the lawn; pig sty; main streets; Los Angeles domestic scenes; homes; divination; ashes; divining in ashes; slaughtering a pig; slaughter; bloodletting; pig blood in ashes; shaking hands; Palmistry storefront; woman exits palmistry shop; children pose in front of palmistry shop; fire at night; very large group meal; pork banquets; pig's head on table; red boutonnieres; 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 1961

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Geographical Location: USA; California; Los Angeles, California; Nevada; Long Beach, 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 square, circle

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 408

Online Copy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJWlM3kzDzw

Metadata Source:YouTube