Home Movie: 005297 (silent)

Genre: home movie

Description:

Description: A group of elders take a road trip throughout the Southern, Midwest, and Southwest United States, with many views of state line markers along the way. Also includes a trip to Matamoros, Mexico featuring open-air market scenes, basket weaving, and more. This lengthy film is full of expansive geographical and cultural detail, and may have been produced by people with relatives in Mexico,

Film:
"Processed by Kodak W 60"

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

Subjects: 1950s, Road trips, Tourism, Agriculture, Latina/o/x/e and/or Hispanic people, Extractive industries, Animals, Energy

Tags: Mississippi river; Iowa State Highway Commission vehicle; panoramic views; frozen river; farmland; kissing goodbyes; steel bridges; red barns; image extends between perforations; posing for camera; photographer onscreen; shaking hands; J.D. Schwartz 1914 barn sign; Welcome To Lyons Shopping Center Clinton, Iowa sign; winter; grain elevators; Tabor College campus sign; Caldwell City Limit sign; posing at state line; "Welcome to Oklahoma" sign; "Welcome to Kansas" sign; sign listing speed limits; oil pumps; Powell Drilling Co. oil well; oil wells near Oklahoma State Capitol; prairie; cattle; horses; cactus; steer; overturned car; car accidents; tow truck flipping car back to wheels; cows; rhododendrons; Charro Courts motel; Art Deco motel; filmed through windshield; filmed from moving vehicle; market stalls; man running into market with pig over shoulder; Turner Falls View sign; Red River sign; waving at camera; main streets; Good Street Baptist Church; African American churches; Black churches; Sanger's sign; Texas Bank Building sign; hyenas; emus; zoos; Armour and Company brass plaque; Central Airlines hangar; Flamingo Motel sign; drive-in restaurant; drilling machinery; Ozarka Water Company truck; Gateway Bridge; Gateway International Bridge; bazaar in Matamoros; Red River sign; Red River bridge; Baptist church; Dallas street scenes; Wilcox Book Store; tower viewers; tractors; bald eagle; ranching; horseback riding; cowboys; corralling cattle; ranch hands; chaps; calves; Cotton Bowl Stadium; feeding the ducks; elephants; sailors; military personnel at zoo; Navy uniforms; smoking; cigarettes; peacocks; chickens; gulls; herons; pelicans; raccoons; badgers; monkeys; tigers; plowing; passenger train runs by camera; passenger railroads; trains; gravestones; Jose Pasmant gravestone; cemeteries; expansive floral tributes on graves; Calixtro Segovia gravestone; Elpidia P. Murillo gravestone; Welcome To Corpus Christi Seventh Day Adventist Churches sign; Corpus Christi street scene; Lone Star beer truck; North Beach Park; ferris wheel; Missouri River sign; ice in river; Missouri River bridge; Kansas City stockyards; pigeons; oil derricks; pump jacks; dusk; side driving POV through hilly prairie; windmill; silhouettes; under-exposed; religious paintings; framed Catholic paintings; Plaza De Toros Matamoros sign; bullring; bull fighting; arenas; bulls; bicycles; carts; palm trees; Brahmin cows; Cafe Rodriguez sign; street scenes and people in Matamoros; adobe bricks; stone buildings; oxen cart; burros; bundle of wood; laden mule; weaving baskets; bougainvillea; high angle views; white tablecloth restaurants; streams; filmed while riding burro; people riding burros; poverty tourism; Monterrey street scenes; palm trees lining highway; workers harvesting; Mexican family posing for camera; modern architecture; building construction; waterfalls; mountains; filmed while driving; Spur Motel sign;

Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection

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

Production Date: circa 1955-1959

Release Date:

Geographical Location: USA; Iowa; Clinton, Iowa; Caldwell, Kansas; Oklahoma; Texas; Dallas, Texas; Corpus Christi, Texas; Mexico; Florida; Sarasota, Florida; Louisiana; Mississippi; Mississippi River; Missouri; Virginia; Georgia; North Carolina; South Carolina; Port Arthur, Texas; Nuevo León; Monterrey, Nuevo León; Brownsville, Texas; Matamoros, Tamaulipas; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Genre/Form: home movie

Film Format: 16mm film

Element: reversal, original

Color: color

Color Process: Kodachrome, Ansco

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: plus square, circle circle

Frame Rate: 12 fps

Length (feet): 1622

Complete Record: Description: A group of elders take a road trip throughout the Southern, Midwest, and Southwest United States, with many views of state line markers along the way. Also includes a trip to Matamoros, Mexico featuring open-air market scenes, basket weaving, and more. This lengthy film is full of expansive geographical and cultural detail, and may have been produced by people with relatives in Mexico, Film: "Processed by Kodak W 60" Reuse Statement: For information on reusing Prelinger Archives footage and obtaining written usage agreements, please visit www.prelinger.com. Subjects: 1950s, Road trips, Tourism, Agriculture, Latina/o/x/e and/or Hispanic people, Extractive industries, Animals, Energy Tags: Mississippi river; Iowa State Highway Commission vehicle; panoramic views; frozen river; farmland; kissing goodbyes; steel bridges; red barns; image extends between perforations; posing for camera; photographer onscreen; shaking hands; J.D. Schwartz 1914 barn sign; Welcome To Lyons Shopping Center Clinton, Iowa sign; winter; grain elevators; Tabor College campus sign; Caldwell City Limit sign; posing at state line; "Welcome to Oklahoma" sign; "Welcome to Kansas" sign; sign listing speed limits; oil pumps; Powell Drilling Co. oil well; oil wells near Oklahoma State Capitol; prairie; cattle; horses; cactus; steer; overturned car; car accidents; tow truck flipping car back to wheels; cows; rhododendrons; Charro Courts motel; Art Deco motel; filmed through windshield; filmed from moving vehicle; market stalls; man running into market with pig over shoulder; Turner Falls View sign; Red River sign; waving at camera; main streets; Good Street Baptist Church; African American churches; Black churches; Sanger's sign; Texas Bank Building sign; hyenas; emus; zoos; Armour and Company brass plaque; Central Airlines hangar; Flamingo Motel sign; drive-in restaurant; drilling machinery; Ozarka Water Company truck; Gateway Bridge; Gateway International Bridge; bazaar in Matamoros; Red River sign; Red River bridge; Baptist church; Dallas street scenes; Wilcox Book Store; tower viewers; tractors; bald eagle; ranching; horseback riding; cowboys; corralling cattle; ranch hands; chaps; calves; Cotton Bowl Stadium; feeding the ducks; elephants; sailors; military personnel at zoo; Navy uniforms; smoking; cigarettes; peacocks; chickens; gulls; herons; pelicans; raccoons; badgers; monkeys; tigers; plowing; passenger train runs by camera; passenger railroads; trains; gravestones; Jose Pasmant gravestone; cemeteries; expansive floral tributes on graves; Calixtro Segovia gravestone; Elpidia P. Murillo gravestone; Welcome To Corpus Christi Seventh Day Adventist Churches sign; Corpus Christi street scene; Lone Star beer truck; North Beach Park; ferris wheel; Missouri River sign; ice in river; Missouri River bridge; Kansas City stockyards; pigeons; oil derricks; pump jacks; dusk; side driving POV through hilly prairie; windmill; silhouettes; under-exposed; religious paintings; framed Catholic paintings; Plaza De Toros Matamoros sign; bullring; bull fighting; arenas; bulls; bicycles; carts; palm trees; Brahmin cows; Cafe Rodriguez sign; street scenes and people in Matamoros; adobe bricks; stone buildings; oxen cart; burros; bundle of wood; laden mule; weaving baskets; bougainvillea; high angle views; white tablecloth restaurants; streams; filmed while riding burro; people riding burros; poverty tourism; Monterrey street scenes; palm trees lining highway; workers harvesting; Mexican family posing for camera; modern architecture; building construction; waterfalls; mountains; filmed while driving; Spur Motel sign; Contributor: Prelinger Archives Source Collection: Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive Production Date: circa 1955-1959 Release Date: Geographical Location: USA; Iowa; Clinton, Iowa; Caldwell, Kansas; Oklahoma; Texas; Dallas, Texas; Corpus Christi, Texas; Mexico; Florida; Sarasota, Florida; Louisiana; Mississippi; Mississippi River; Missouri; Virginia; Georgia; North Carolina; South Carolina; Port Arthur, Texas; Nuevo León; Monterrey, Nuevo León; Brownsville, Texas; Matamoros, Tamaulipas; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Genre/Form: home movie Film Format: 16mm film Element: reversal, original Color: color Color Process: Kodachrome, Ansco Sound or Silent: silent Film Soundtrack Type: mos Edge Code: plus square, circle circle Frame Rate: 12 fps Length (feet): 1622