Home Movie: 011706 (silent)

Genre: home movie

Description:

Description: Content warning: This film includes visual evidence of racial and class differences influenced by the legacy of colonialism. Afro-Caribbean people are filmed by wealthy white tourists, likely without express consent.

A comfortable family based in New Hampshire's White Mountains travels to the colonial tropics, with sequences filmed on board cruise ships and at destinations in Nassau, Bahamas, and the Virgin Islands and their surrounding waters. At home in the White Mountains, the family celebrates two Christmases.

Note on Can:
1. Xmas [Christmas] 1964
2. Virgin Island Trip on Board Victoria Feb 27, 1965
3. Nassau + Harbor
4. St. Maarten 1/2 French 1/2 Dutch
5. Guadalupe - French
6. No Conway Cape Cod White Mts [Mountains] 1965
7. XMas 1965 [Christmas] m

Reuse Statement: For information on reusing Prelinger Archives footage and obtaining written usage agreements, please visit www.prelinger.com.

Subjects: 1960s, Families, Holidays, People of African origin or descent, Social classes, Colonialism

Tags: Christmas; dinners; turkeys; carving turkey; kitchens; drinking; wine; affection; kissing; elder man and woman cooking together; senior citizens; elderly adults; elders; cigarettes; smoking; lighting a match; Christmas tree; gifts; televisions; knotty pine; Christmas cards; Dachshund; cruise ships; overcoats; canes; woman with camera; Victoria Incres Line; lifesaving ring; posing with lifesaver; life preservers; cruise ship deck; swimming pools; banquets; ice sculptures; sculpture made of roast chickens; Thanksgiving feast; Customs; Virgin Islands; Sheraton British Colonial hotel; Afro-Caribbean people; colonial gaze; maple sugar; White Mountains; Franconia Notch; sunglasses; wealth; pearl necklaces; Saco River; fall color; autumn colors; New England

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Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Unidentified Home Movie Collection PC-0173, Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection

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

Production Date: 1964; 1965

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Geographical Location: USA; New Hampshire; U.S. Virgin Islands; Bahamas; Nassau, Bahamas; North Conway, New Hampshire

Genre/Form: home movie

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Film Format: 8mm film

Element: positive, reversal

Color: color

Color Process: Kodachrome

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: square circle, triangle square

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Length (feet): 400

Complete Record: Description: Content warning: This film includes visual evidence of racial and class differences influenced by the legacy of colonialism. Afro-Caribbean people are filmed by wealthy white tourists, likely without express consent. A comfortable family based in New Hampshire's White Mountains travels to the colonial tropics, with sequences filmed on board cruise ships and at destinations in Nassau, Bahamas, and the Virgin Islands and their surrounding waters. At home in the White Mountains, the family celebrates two Christmases. Note on Can: 1. Xmas [Christmas] 1964 2. Virgin Island Trip on Board Victoria Feb 27, 1965 3. Nassau + Harbor 4. St. Maarten 1/2 French 1/2 Dutch 5. Guadalupe - French 6. No Conway Cape Cod White Mts [Mountains] 1965 7. XMas 1965 [Christmas] m Reuse Statement: For information on reusing Prelinger Archives footage and obtaining written usage agreements, please visit www.prelinger.com. Subjects: 1960s, Families, Holidays, People of African origin or descent, Social classes, Colonialism Tags: Christmas; dinners; turkeys; carving turkey; kitchens; drinking; wine; affection; kissing; elder man and woman cooking together; senior citizens; elderly adults; elders; cigarettes; smoking; lighting a match; Christmas tree; gifts; televisions; knotty pine; Christmas cards; Dachshund; cruise ships; overcoats; canes; woman with camera; Victoria Incres Line; lifesaving ring; posing with lifesaver; life preservers; cruise ship deck; swimming pools; banquets; ice sculptures; sculpture made of roast chickens; Thanksgiving feast; Customs; Virgin Islands; Sheraton British Colonial hotel; Afro-Caribbean people; colonial gaze; maple sugar; White Mountains; Franconia Notch; sunglasses; wealth; pearl necklaces; Saco River; fall color; autumn colors; New England Film Sponsor: Creator: Credits: Distributor: Contributor: Prelinger Archives Source Collection: Unidentified Home Movie Collection PC-0173, Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive Production Date: 1964; 1965 Release Date: Geographical Location: USA; New Hampshire; U.S. Virgin Islands; Bahamas; Nassau, Bahamas; North Conway, New Hampshire Genre/Form: home movie Language: Rights: Film Format: 8mm film Element: positive, reversal Color: color Color Process: Kodachrome Sound or Silent: silent Film Soundtrack Type: mos Edge Code: square circle, triangle square Frame Rate: Length (feet): 400