Home Movie: 001086 (silent)

Description: Content warning: This film includes repeated visual evidence of racial and class differences influenced by the legacy of colonialism, including people local to the places visited who are often acting in a service role to wealthy white tourists and likely being filmed without express consent.

A world cruise on the S.S. Franconia from New York to Portugal, Italy, and Egypt in January 1928. Features upper class white tourists interacting with local people, riding camels, and posing with the pyramids of Giza Necropolis. See item 203932 for the continuation of this cruise.

Title card: "World Cruise 1928"

Note on container:
"#1 of cruise fair to good/Egypt (Broken)/ India / wet 3/17/75 repaired 3/12/75 3/15/84"

More information on the S.S. Franconia: www.chriscunard.com/history-fleet/cunard-fleet/1900-1930/franconia/ (accessed 1/14/2025)

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Subjects: 1920s, Tourism, Colonialism, Geography, People of Middle Eastern or North African origin or descent

Tags: homemade titles; "World Cruise 1928" ornate title; "S.S. Franconia New York Jan 7" title; S.S. Franconia; Cunard Line; steam rising from funnel; ocean liner; cruises; ships; enormous cruise ship; pointer showing landing on world map; world cruises; Terreiro Da Luta sign; carriage sled; social class; man with pipe; smoking; cobblestone roads; "French Riviera" title; ruins; postcards for sale; Naples; street scenes; bubbling geothermal pools; geysers; Alexandria, Egypt; street performers; boy tucks head under legs walks on hands; bustling streets; children filmed without consent; poverty tourism; white touristic gaze; pyramids; riding camels; kneeling camel; human-animal relationships; goat herd; slow motion; Giza Necropolis

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Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Unidentified Home Movie Collection PC-0346, Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection

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

Production Date: 1928-01-07; 1928-01-21 through 1929-01-28

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Geographical Location: Italy; Naples, Italy; Egypt; Alexandria, Egypt; Cairo, Egypt; Madeira, Portugal; Terreiro da Luta, Madeira, Portugal; Portugal; Funchal, Portugal

Genre/Form: home movie

Language: eng

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Film Format: 16mm film

Element: print

Color: b&w

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Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: circle circle circle

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 447