Home Movie: 098167 (silent)

Complete Record: 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. Reuse Statement: For information on reusing Prelinger Archives footage and obtaining written usage agreements, please visit www.prelinger.com. 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 Film Sponsor: Creator: Credits: Distributor: 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 Release Date: Geographical Location: USA; New Jersey Genre/Form: home movie Language: Rights: 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