Home Movie: 004989 (sound)

Description: Unusual sound home movie created by an imaginative parent in the 1970s who filmed a birthday party, then apparently created the soundtrack by showing the film to the birthday girl, Alexandra, and inviting her to narrate the film in an interpretive, retrospective mode. The result evokes the classic children's films of the 1970s that express children's inner states and inner experiences.

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Subjects: 1970s, Children, Celebrations and ceremonies, Games and play

Tags: birthday parties; sheet cakes; birthday cakes; children's birthday parties; blowing out candles; party hats; punch bowls; coloring books; frowns; pouting; pin the tail on the donkey game; party games; streamers; party decorations; backyard parties; backyards; father taking photographs with SLR camera; Winnie The Pooh themed birthday; opening presents; adults drinking Coors beer in corner; Gen-X on film; childish commentary; post narration by young child; mom and dad laughing; parents talking; kids eating cake; kids coloring; child narrating film; "silly face on my head"; frowns; pouting; plaid skirts; cheating; terrier dog; dad taking photographs; "Happy Birthday Alexandra"; cutting cake; outdoor deck on wooded slope; 1970s clothing; wide lapels on adult and children's clothing; bell bottom pants;

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Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Adam Dziesinski Collection, Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection

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

Production Date: circa 1975

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Geographical Location: USA

Genre/Form: home movie

Language: eng

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Film Format: 16mm film

Element: reversal

Color: b&w

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Sound or Silent: sound

Film Soundtrack Type: magnetic stripe

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Frame Rate: 24 fps

Length (feet): 215