Home Movie: 011083 (silent)

Description: Description: Content notice: A Black family on a cross-country road trip document evidence of Jim Crow era racial segregation they encounter in the form of signs and flags. A Chicago-based Black family with three young children embark on an epic road trip to the Jim Crow south and beyond, where they visit many family members and friends before turning west to Texas and California, with the last frame catching the California state border. Wide-ranging reel with many joyful scenes of children at play, and many happy visits to families living in both towns and farms expressing all kinds of lifestyles and ways of greeting and hosting the visitors. With meetings among groups of young children at the center of most of the sequences, and with street scenes, rural life, weather, and domestic landscapes shown across several different towns in Tennessee, Missouri, and Texas. With many driving perspectives, and views of locations important in Black history such as a school named for George Washington Carver. cyan lab stamp: PROCESSED BY KODAK JUL 58 Reuse Statement: For information on reusing Prelinger Archives footage and obtaining written usage agreements, please visit www.prelinger.com. Subjects: 1950s, Road trips, Black history and culture , People of African origin or descent, Families, Racism Tags: Standard stations; gas stations; POV driving; bridges; highways; road construction; Interstate Highway system under construction; billboards; Hawthorne racing sign; suburbs; tract housing; Black teenage boy enjoys a snack and laughs for camera; sign for Chicago; airport scenes; airplanes landing; African American families posing in front of homes; Black families; African American children; Black children; laughter; dressing up; 1950s dresses; affection; large families; children wave to camera; possible twin girls; carnivals; amusement rides; The Dip; boat amusement park ride; water rides; city streets; driving perspectives; street scenes; Chicago's Union Station; train stations; fleet of police officers on motorcycles; nuns in habits; row homes; trucks driving over bridges; Brick's Army Store sign; plaques and monuments; road trip; highway driving; Nashville, Tennessee; Confederate flag or Don't Tread on Me sign possible on Tennessee state capitol building; cemetery; sign Battle of Nashville; U.S. 31; theater marquees; Confederate flag hanging at city park; sign Columbia, Tennessee; slogan Old South Charm New South Progress; Polk theater; Ten North Frederick on marquee; backyard swing sets; play areas; children's play equipment in yard; sand area; swing set; jungle gym; young man works on roof repairs; children at play filmed from window; laundry hanging on line; families gathered on front porches; Victory Club sign; Carver - Smith building; schools named for George Washington Carver; happiness; laughter; smoking cigarettes; families in front porches; fatherhood; man poses with toddler for camera; Maury County Courthouse; visiting a farm; pan farm equipment; family with two toddlers waves to camera; 1950s fashions; dogs; gardens; rural family shows vegetable garden to visitors; public buildings; Colored Entrance sign; racial segregation; Jim Crow Era; suburban houses; Tennessee Knitting Mills water tower;elder man emerges from home; brick homes; new homes; porch swings; bird baths; sky photography; storm photography; rain; downpours; military personnel; farmland; church scenes; dressed for church; Beale Street sign; S. Second Street sign; Union Station; Welcome To Bolivar sign; Ellington sign; sunsets; waving at camera; visiting friends at work; man on the job; children playing on a slide; children eating at Weingarten's; sisters posing for camera; backyard chickens; mowing lawn; fences; well-maintained homes; gardens; outbuildings; sheds; traffic driving through small towns; garages; junction U.S. 290 and Texas 159 in Elgin, Texas; Texas license plate; stacked firewood; dim interiors; POV driving through industrial towns; roadside produce stands; mountain highways; high country; rocky country; road map reflected in windshield; tunnels; California State Line; junction U.S. 60 and U.S. 70; Great Migration; Film Sponsor: Creator: Credits: Distributor: Contributor: Prelinger Archives Source Collection: Unidentified Home Movie Collection PC-0504, Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive Production Date: 1957-1958 Release Date: Geographical Location: USA; Illinois; Chicago, Illinois; Tennessee; Columbia, Tennessee; Texas; California; Brenham, Texas; Missouri; Ellington, Missouri; Elgin, Texas Genre/Form: home movie Language: Rights: Film Format: 8mm film Element: positive Color: color Color Process: Kodachrome Sound or Silent: silent Film Soundtrack Type: mos Edge Code: triangle, square Frame Rate: 16 fps Length (feet): 308

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