Home Movie: 010787 (silent)

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.

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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;

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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

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Geographical Location: USA; Columbus, Ohio; Ohio

Genre/Form: home movie

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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