Home Movie: 001504 (silent)

Description:

Description: An African American family travels from Michigan to Africa by jet in a multi-city trip. They visit family and friends, see the gravesite of a loved one, and stop at the residences of many family and friends and places of work in both Nigeria and Sierra Leone, culminating in a large formal wedding of a family member to a member of the Sierra Leone armed services.

An obituary of Christina Eyimofe Stallings, the widow of Herman D. Stallings: www.skylawnmemorialpark.com/obituaries/christina-estallings-32954/obituary (accessed April 22, 2025).

Can note: "Africa Part I"
Lab stamp: "EKco 1/71"

See item 202947 for Part II

Reuse Statement: For information on reusing Prelinger Archives footage and obtaining written usage agreements, please visit www.prelinger.com.

Subjects: 1970s, People of African origin or descent, Families, World War II, Labor, Electronics, Manufacturing, Cities, Geography, Clothing and fashion, Politics and government

Tags: view from airplane window; clouds; coastlines; jungles; landing strips; tarmacs; airports; Roberts International Airport; men with cameras; journalists; man with microphone; Union de Transportes Aeriens (UTA) airplane; Pan American Airways; Cotonou Cadjehun Airport; multi-stop flight; high angle POVs of villages and cities; industry; agriculture; extraction; geodesic dome; people posing for camera; man with film camera; family reunion at airport; driving on left side of highway; driving POV; Pepsi sign; Shell sign; traffic jams; people carrying loads on heads; YWCA; Volkswagen cars; cemetery; churches; memorials; laying flowers on grave; Herman D. Stallings (1920-1967); World War II; military gravestone; veterans; Michigan man buried in Africa; return to Africa; pan Africanism; grief; Black families; Black child with Black doll; pan-African fashions; Corona School; Maiden Electronics Works, Ltd.; Bronze Gallery and Co., Ltd.; Residence Sierra-Leone High Commissioner sign; Sierra Leone government buildings; Nigeria Airways aircraft; passengers boarding aircraft via stairway; children on seesaw; slideshows; projection; church service; marriage license projected; family wedding; military uniform; military weddings; folk music; African music; cake cutting; travel; African diaspora; large formal wedding; Sierra Leone armed services; African American people; Nigerian people; Sierra Leonean people

Film Sponsor:

Creator: Edsel B. Stallings

Credits:

Distributor:

Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Stallings Family Collection PC-0113, Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection

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

Production Date: 1970

Release Date:

Geographical Location: Nigeria; Lagos, Nigeria; Sierra Leone; Liberia; Harbel, Liberia; Dahomey; Benin; Cotonou, Benin; Ikeja, Lagos State, Nigeria

Genre/Form: home movie

Language:

Rights:

Film Format: Super 8mm film

Element: reversal, original

Color: color

Color Process: Kodachrome

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: triangle plus

Frame Rate: 18 fps

Length (feet): 447

Complete Record: Description: An African American family travels from Michigan to Africa by jet in a multi-city trip. They visit family and friends, see the gravesite of a loved one, and stop at the residences of many family and friends and places of work in both Nigeria and Sierra Leone, culminating in a large formal wedding of a family member to a member of the Sierra Leone armed services. An obituary of Christina Eyimofe Stallings, the widow of Herman D. Stallings: www.skylawnmemorialpark.com/obituaries/christina-estallings-32954/obituary (accessed April 22, 2025). Can note: "Africa Part I" Lab stamp: "EKco 1/71" See item 202947 for Part II Reuse Statement: For information on reusing Prelinger Archives footage and obtaining written usage agreements, please visit www.prelinger.com. Subjects: 1970s, People of African origin or descent, Families, World War II, Labor, Electronics, Manufacturing, Cities, Geography, Clothing and fashion, Politics and government Tags: view from airplane window; clouds; coastlines; jungles; landing strips; tarmacs; airports; Roberts International Airport; men with cameras; journalists; man with microphone; Union de Transportes Aeriens (UTA) airplane; Pan American Airways; Cotonou Cadjehun Airport; multi-stop flight; high angle POVs of villages and cities; industry; agriculture; extraction; geodesic dome; people posing for camera; man with film camera; family reunion at airport; driving on left side of highway; driving POV; Pepsi sign; Shell sign; traffic jams; people carrying loads on heads; YWCA; Volkswagen cars; cemetery; churches; memorials; laying flowers on grave; Herman D. Stallings (1920-1967); World War II; military gravestone; veterans; Michigan man buried in Africa; return to Africa; pan Africanism; grief; Black families; Black child with Black doll; pan-African fashions; Corona School; Maiden Electronics Works, Ltd.; Bronze Gallery and Co., Ltd.; Residence Sierra-Leone High Commissioner sign; Sierra Leone government buildings; Nigeria Airways aircraft; passengers boarding aircraft via stairway; children on seesaw; slideshows; projection; church service; marriage license projected; family wedding; military uniform; military weddings; folk music; African music; cake cutting; travel; African diaspora; large formal wedding; Sierra Leone armed services; African American people; Nigerian people; Sierra Leonean people Film Sponsor: Creator: Edsel B. Stallings Credits: Distributor: Contributor: Prelinger Archives Source Collection: Stallings Family Collection PC-0113, Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive Production Date: 1970 Release Date: Geographical Location: Nigeria; Lagos, Nigeria; Sierra Leone; Liberia; Harbel, Liberia; Dahomey; Benin; Cotonou, Benin; Ikeja, Lagos State, Nigeria Genre/Form: home movie Language: Rights: Film Format: Super 8mm film Element: reversal, original Color: color Color Process: Kodachrome Sound or Silent: silent Film Soundtrack Type: mos Edge Code: triangle plus Frame Rate: 18 fps Length (feet): 447