Home Movie: 011111 (silent)

Description: Rural living in the early years of agriculture mechanization in Iowa, including lively scenes of children swimming in rivers and playing on farms, community gatherings held outdoors, picnics, music, and an extended sequence of a hay harvest using teams of horses and gasoline powered machinery. Near the beginning of the reel is a brief appearance of a person with Down Syndrome participating in a community gathering.

can notes:
"Bentons Port. Keokuk. Gilman. Cherry Lake."

note in can:
"[Bentonsport] Iowa 1931 reunion/Keokuk Dam; Leo Mussers farm/Cherry Lake dam/Threshing 1934/Reunion-Train car/Power plant/Home+garden/[The] dog/swimming/Hay harvest"

head leader notes:
"Homecoming"

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Subjects: 1920s, 1930s, Rural life, Transportation, Agriculture, Labor, Children, People with disabilities and those who are d/Deaf and/or hard of hearing

Tags: burned frames; crowds; reunions; grassy picnics; piano outside; crowds; people with Down syndrome; people with congenital disabilities; laughing; warped film; swimming; farm work; gatherings; bow ties; possible picnics; young men and women; cattle crossing bridge; cows; driving POVs; filmed from moving vehicle; cattle on dirt road; Rock Island Lines; self-propelled diesel car 9049; white butterflies; railroads; trains; train engineers; steam locomotive 1514; smiling fireman hanging on steps; railway depot; dams; locks; Keokuk Lock and Dam No. 19; Mississippi River; rivers; hydroelectric power; generators; children jumping off haystacks; woman playing with dog; child with kittens; generators; farms; lakes; corn fields; farmhouses; Leo Musser's farm; screen doors; children; children riding horses; sliding; harvesting; threshing; forking hay; farm machinery; machines; combines; jumping in the hay; dogs; boy pushing lawnmower; kittens; horses; overalls; baskets; diving in river; holding nose; bathing suits; sliding down wavy slides into the river; water slide; children riding a pony; group efforts; labor; farm machinery; silos; cartloads; team of horses; pitchforks; mountain of hay; boys on tractors; horseback riding

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Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection

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

Production Date: circa 1932 to 1934

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Geographical Location: USA; Iowa; Bentonsport, Iowa; Keokuk, Iowa

Genre/Form: home movie

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Film Format: 16mm film

Element: original, reversal

Color: b&w

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Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: plus circle, square plus

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 353