Home Movie: 096043 (silent)

Description: Life and leisure in snowbird trailer communities in the southern United States with a charming sequence of a bicycle-riding milk delivery woman distributing bottles of milk from an ice-cooled trailer. Includes color sequences of sugar cane harvest and syrup production by African American agriculturists in South Carolina in 1949.

Titles:

Ma-Hot-Ma-Gandi. Mr. Edwards, The Thaxton's, Herman, John A.

An Early Morning catch, Hiawatha Court, Melbourne Fla. Oct, 18, 1942.

Lunch, North of West Palm Beach, Oct. 20, 1942.

The tree Surgeon of Silver Court, an Old Ladder Man.

The Milk Maid. Silver Court

Old Time Cane Mill at Canadays Cross Roads, S.C. Nov. 15th. 1949.

150 Gal. Kettle of Juice, Boiled down to 25 and then it is syrup. Cane Syrup

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Subjects: 1940s, Tourism, People of African origin or descent, Agriculture, Road trips, Labor, Leisure and recreation

Tags: homemade titles; fishing in the ocean surf; surfcasting; sand; ocean; beaches; fishing poles; dunes; chin strap; slow-motion; casting; sunny day; smiling at camera; Hiawatha Court; trailer court; string of fish; fresh catch; West Palm Beach; roadside picnic; Silver Court trailer park; trailer parks; ladders; milk delivery; bicycle with trailer delivers milk; mule driven sugar cane extractor; boiling sugar cane juice; sugar cane syrup production; dogs; outbuildings; African American workers; Black workers; agriculturists; farmers; shirtless; Black boys smiling at camera; man drinking can juice; chopping wood for stove; outdoor cooking; moke; mules

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Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Unidentified Home Movie Collection PC-0345, Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection

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

Production Date: 1942-10-18; 1942-10-20; 1949-11-15

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Geographical Location: USA; South Carolina; Florida; West Palm Beach, Florida; Melbourne, Florida; Colleton County, South Carolina

Genre/Form: home movie

Language: eng

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Film Format: 16mm film

Element: reversal

Color: color

Color Process: Kodachrome

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: square triangle

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 153