Home Movie: 010787 (silent)

Genre: home movie

Year Published: 1953

Complete Record: Description: Domestic scenes of an early 1950s African American family during the holidays, with images of holiday dinners, people reading magazines on a sofa, a football game recorded off a television set, and more. Some of the roll is underexposed. Tape label on can states: "ends w/ 2 shots of wife at window / 60's technicolor home travelog" Geographical location of Columbus, Ohio inferred by slide on television showing WLWC channel 3, which was located in Columbus between 1949 and 1953. Another film from this family depicts a woman family member photographing their new house while under construction. Reuse Statement: For information on reusing Prelinger Archives footage and obtaining written usage agreements, please visit www.prelinger.com. Subjects: 1950s, People of African origin or descent, Black history and culture , Multiracial people, Domestic life, Holidays, Families Tags: African American people; man seated on couch reading magazine; man and woman playing piano; woman awakening man napping on couch; domestic interiors; football game filmed off television; filmed of TV; WLWC Channel 3 call letters; man reading movie camera instruction booklet; woman leafing through magazine; woman reading article in Holiday magazine with film projector advertisement; woman paging through family photograph album; family photographs; framed portraits; Christmas cards; man smoking cigarette on sofa; woman holding camera; mother and child on staircase; parties; drinking alcohol; cocktails; breakfast tables; dinner tables; dinner parties; multigenerational families; coffee pots; poinsettias; Chinese figurine lamp; nightgowns; robes; raising a glass; holiday dinners; bonsai; domestic interiors; Film Sponsor: Creator: Credits: Distributor: Contributor: Prelinger Archives Source Collection: Stryker Indigo Collection, Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection, Unidentified Home Movie Collection PC-0381 Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive Production Date: circa 1952 Release Date: Geographical Location: USA; Columbus, Ohio; Ohio Genre/Form: home movie Language: Rights: Film Format: 16mm film Element: reversal Color: color Color Process: Kodachrome Sound or Silent: silent Film Soundtrack Type: mos Edge Code: square plus Frame Rate: 16 fps Length (feet): 409