Home Movie: 010956 (silent)

Description: Content warning: intertitle at 10:01 includes a patronizing and offensive term for an African American man.

Elders, owners of a hortcultural or nursery business in Pennsylvania, tour the southern United States in a trailer and meet other snowbirds along the way. Includes rich color images of wildflowers and cacti and ends with a sequence of an African American man plowing a field. Reel is faded first-state Kodachrome with some black and white scenes and titles.

can notes: "#3 - End of Brownsville and trip home"

Titles:

Cacti Gardens, near Edinburg, Texas. Over 1500 varieties from all over the world. *Faunce's, Gilson's & Mrs. Mc.

Mrs. W.I. Gilson

The Ben Faunce's East Lansing, Mich. Faked traffic violation at Mission, Texas.

The McLennen's Flint, Michigan. Mr. Kelley and Wind Bag Creger.

View from trailer first location. High school and old church in the background — second location.

Mexican Honey Bear

Wild Verbena

Cacti in bloom note different shades on one leaf

Blue bells

A tangled growth of cacti and mesquit

A crab — A bait thief —

Rather a nice string of Fish

Curtis H. Lowrey Camp Manager Brownsville, Texas.

Richard Dyer The able assistant

Old Mrs. Billingham on the rampage with — Curtis Lowrey Brownsville Texas

A small patch of Black Eyed Susans fragrant

Roadside verbenas

Newly planted rice fields La.

New sugar cane fields Franklin, La.

Street and beach scene Gulfport, Miss.

Stock at Large Warming — Just to bad if they change their mind at fifty miles per.

Black boy cultivating with a steer. S.C.

Flowers at home Tree peony, Azaleas, Wisteria, Tulips,

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Subjects: 1930s, Gardens, Road trips, Tourism, Nature, Rural life

Tags: intertitles; gardens; cacti; cactus; Keep Hands Off Plants Please sign; wildflowers; gardens; Mexican Honey Bear; captive wild animal; Blue Bells; Mesquite; string of fish; fisherman; Curtis H. Lowrey; Richard Dyer; Black-eyed Susans; Verbena; sugar cane fields; African American farm workers; micro-aggressions; Wisteria; "snowbirds"; trailer life; life on the road; camps; trailer parks; livestock; Caution Live Stock At Large sign; new friends; "Trailersville"; cutout between perforations; elders; 1937 Nebraska license plate 70-552; woman seated on automobile bumper; livestock on road; Black man plowing field with animal pulling plow

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Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection, Unidentified Home Movie Collection PC-0345

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

Production Date: circa 1939

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Geographical Location: USA; Louisiana; Franklin, Louisiana; Texas; Edinburg, Texas; Brownsville, Texas; Mississippi; Gulfport, Mississippi; South Carolina; Michigan; Flint, Michigan

Genre/Form: home movie

Language: eng

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Film Format: 16mm film

Element: reversal, print

Color: color, b&w

Color Process: Kodachrome

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: square circle, circle circle

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 271