Home Movie: 012058 (silent)

Genre: home movie

Description: Description: Brought to New York by a special event, a Black family from Detroit takes in the Guggenheim and Central Park and the look and feel of the architecture and signage of the city in the early 1960s. They film themselves enjoying cafes and restaurants, then attend an award event and banquet where members of the Black community are honored before heading west back to Michigan.

from can:
"NY '64"
"NY 1964
Hotel Ent
Holland Smith
Washington Jackson
@ Lunch
Fire Engine Inter[rupt]
Banquet
Back on road
@ Det
Kid Show
Sign Pole
[?] + Sanders"

label on leader:
"1964 SEPT"

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Subjects: 1960s, People of African origin or descent, Cities, Black history and culture , Tourism, Road trips

Tags: Guggenheim Museum interiors and exteriors; Central Park; 1960s fashions; 1960s dresses; climbing over a fence; man dances small jig; New York Police Department officers on horseback; restaurant interiors; hot dog stands; cafeteria interiors; enjoying orange juice; Black families; African American families; Coffee Shop sign; smiling at camera; New York City street scenes; building under renovation; neon signs; illuminated signs at dusk; subway stations; people walking down into subway; woman talking with police officers; young girl with shoeshine box; shoeshiners; Manhattan traffic; Statler Hilton exterior; Paramount Theater marquee; The Animals on marquee; ticket lines for rock and roll show; ticket booths; Broadway; Times Square; Midtown Manhattan; hotel windows; members of The Animals wave from their hotel windows; rock stars; fans; performance costume hanging in window; firetrucks; fire engines; ice cream carts; street vendors; getting into taxi cab; banquets; formal events; award ceremonies; plaques; Black community; Black events; driving POVs through New Jersey; New Jersey Turnpike; children playing on broken street sign pole

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Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Unidentified Home Movie Collection PC-0438, Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection

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

Production Date: 1964-09; 1964

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Geographical Location: USA; New York; New York, New York; Manhattan, New York, New York

Genre/Form: home movie

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Film Format: 8mm film

Element: reversal, original

Color: b&w, color

Color Process: Kodachrome

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: triangle square, square

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 327

Online Copy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvTUO-cHVXE

Metadata Source:YouTube