Home Movie: 097150 (silent)

Description: A fishing expedition with the Kroger Shrimp Operation. Includes images of fishermen hoisting fishing nets and dumping fish onto the deck of the boat, as well as workers, many of whom are Black or Latina/o/x/e, processing and de-veining shrimp in a factory.

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Texas Cotton Field - color
Kilgore oil town - color
Swils ? - color
Sonis ? Sea Drive in color
Kroger Shrimp Operation - B&W
Palacios street scene - B&W
Kilgore Oil Field - B&W
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Subjects: 1940s, Fishing and fisheries, Labor, Food, Latina/o/x/e and/or Hispanic people, People of African origin or descent

Tags: fishing; fishermen; fishing boats; sea stars and crabs; possibly Gulf of Mexico; dumping fishing nets with shrimp onto deck of boat; Blue Crabs; shrimp; shrimping; shrimpers; gulls swarming boat; ice blocks; shaving ice; Colter buckets; workers processing fresh fish; women's labor; African American women; Black women; workers of color; packaging shrimp; seafood; Vein-Ex Shrimp box; Colter Corporation; main streets; possibly Mexican American people; man holding jellyfish?; blocks of ice; ice chips; shrimp processing; "The Port Lavaca News" sign on building; "City Bar" sign; "Mowen's Jewelry Watchmakers" sign; "W.P Regan Inc. Department Store"; "Capt. Charles Package Store"; men in ties looking at papers and shaking hands; waving at camera

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Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Unidentified Home Movie Collection PC-0297, Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection

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

Production Date: circa 1945; circa 1946

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Geographical Location: USA; Texas; Palacios, Texas; Gulf of Mexico; Port Lavaca, Texas; Kilgore, Texas

Genre/Form: home movie

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Film Format: 16mm film

Element: reversal, original

Color: color, b&w

Color Process: Kodachrome

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: triangle circle, square circle

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 195