Home Movie: 011201 (silent)

Description: Home movie footage filmed in the Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and likely in surrounding countryside as well possibly in parts of Ohio in the late 1930s or early 1940s. Includes many scenes of working-class people spending leisure time in public urban space, sitting on stoops and gathering on sidewalks, as well as passing time outdoors at what appears to be a rural roadside cafe and on a farm. The second half of the film includes extensive documentation of large picnics or celebrations featuring eating, drinking, and dancing. Possibly Italian American or Roma community gatherings, but this identification is not certain.

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Subjects: 1930s,1940s,Cities,Rural life,Celebrations and ceremonies

Tags: street scenes; smoking cigars; brushing hair; Hill District, Pittsburgh; sitting on stoops; mothers and children; goats; stickball; suspenders; water pumps; farmhouses; rural life; cows; ladies' hats; weddings; bride and groom leaving church; zoos; monkeys; tapirs; leopards; polar bears; corsages; couples; double dates; Edgewater Steel Company sign; trestle bridges; African American people; Italian American people; shop windows; sidewalks; advertisements; streetcars; doorways; snakes; snake handling; cornfields; dogs; pigeon coops; dams; pigs; sheep; roadside cafes; Coca Cola signs; The White Front sign; scythes; picnics; two women holding hands; mugging for camera; dancing; line dancing; shish kabob; picnics; swing sets; sword fighting; religious processions; marching bands; sunglasses; drinking beer; Duquesne Pilsner Beer sign; hay wagons; horse-drawn wagons; farm ponds; man eating watermelon; women and girls socializing; steamboats; junkyards; wrecked cars; outdoor gatherings; parties; suspenders; family reunions; "Ann Street Radio, Homestead" van with many speakers; women smoking; children smoking; train or bus conductors; goofing for camera; close-ups; combing long hair; around the neighborhood; communities; posing with small goat; bocce; throwing rice at wedding; spitting; dam; water; shirtless scythe wielding; tinted film; fencing; Simoni's Grocery sign; 39 pont sign on smashed up car; posing for camera; eating corn on the cob; children; families; cats; popping out false teeth; working-class neighborhood; people unaware of camera; small shops; urban storefronts

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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 1939

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Geographical Location: USA; Pennsylvania; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Genre/Form: home movie

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Film Format: 16mm film

Element: reversal

Color: b&w

Color Process: tinted

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

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Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 1031