Home Movie: 098167 (silent)

Description: Music and dance in rural life animate this engaging portrait of a multigenerational family with friends who laugh together and play fiddles, banjo and guitar. Children and elders dance. A very elderly man performs a variety of softshoe shuffle or step dance in the street of a small town.

Can notes: "Robinson relatives etc."

Unclear where this film is shot: contains New Jersey and California license plates, and there is some possibility it might be Cleburne, Texas.

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Subjects: 1940s, Families, Music, Dance, Rural life

Tags: multigenerational families; women; men; youth; overexposed footage; suburban neighborhoods; power lines; roads; cars; home interiors; children; furniture; shaking hands; paintings; flowers; plants; robes; close-ups of faces; older woman standing out front of home; cowboy hats; stores; rural America; small towns; Coca-Cola signs; Earl Williams Grocery and Market; Jones Burger Bar; bicycles; African American children on street; Black youth; Black children; Black teenagers; portraits; community portaiture; integrated community; horses; stables; farms; rural life; houses; trees; fields; chickens in sunlight; music; fiddles; violins; guitars; fiddling; square dancing; tapping feet; children dancing on the porch; older man dancing on road; country music; folk music; folk dance; folk life; softshoe; shuffle; step dance; posing for camera; bow ties; boy chewing gum; drinking fountains; downtown; markets; Don C. Hill Varieties and Groceries sign; "Come inside for Recreation" sign; corsages; orange cats; kittens; close-up of older woman smiling; elders; picket fences; posing for camera; squinting at camera lights; bluegrass; family visits

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Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Unidentified Home Movie Collection PC-0140, Pea Hicks Collection, Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection

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

Production Date: circa 1942

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Geographical Location: USA; New Jersey

Genre/Form: home movie

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Film Format: 8mm film

Element: reversal, original

Color: color

Color Process: Kodachrome

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: circle square

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 124