Home Movie: 010793 (silent)

Description: African American family documents their newly constructed home and suburban neighborhood in the Eastmoor district of Columbus, Ohio, circa 1953. Includes scenes of holiday celebrations with elders and gatherings at home. Date is inferred using other, earlier films in this family collection.

The house is located at the corner of S. Waverly and E. Livingston Ave., (approx. 3220 E. Livingston Ave.) Columbus, Ohio.

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Subjects: 1950s, People of African origin or descent, Families, Leisure and recreation, Holidays

Tags: elders hiding from camera; Christmas trees; tinsel; house plants; house exteriors; African American family posing with homes; birdhouses; exterior houses; front lawns; trees; garages; lawnmowers; new homes; African American men in suits; gardens; flowers; car driving; woman in the driver seat; suburban neighborhoods; dogs; 1158 address sign; modern house; people petting and playing with dogs; car ports; mid-century modern architecture; babies; African American mother holding very young child; young families; horseshoe game; backyards; parks; Ohio license plates; woman putting lens in camera bag; children playing; smoking cigarettes; tripods; multigenerational group of women walking with linked arms; sun dresses; hats; couples posing for camera; cameras; film cameras; shooting cameras at the camera; construction; dirt roads; Dead End sign; multiracial parties; drinking; smoking indoors; indoor sunglasses; elders; framed artworks; bust sculptures; living room furniture; Black suburbia

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Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Unidentified Home Movie Collection PC-0381, Stryker Indigo Collection, Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection

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

Production Date: 1953

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Geographical Location: USA; Ohio; Columbus, Ohio

Genre/Form: home movie

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Film Format: 16mm film

Element: reversal, original

Color: color

Color Process: Kodachrome

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: square plus, plus triangle

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 395