Home Movie: 098625 (silent)

Description: Within scenes created by a wealthy, white Philadelphia area family in the 1920s, documentation of Black people employed both as chauffeurs and as childcare professionals are noteworthy. The family otherwise plays tennis on their private court, celebrates a small wedding, and rides horseback around their estate.

Can note states:
"Rosie, Horseback/Tennis"; "Ray Jr. Field Dress"; "3C"; "From Phila. PA 2012/01"

reel notes:
"UNCAS - 1925 and 1926"

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Subjects: 1920s, Social classes, Leisure and recreation, Sports, Children, Celebrations and ceremonies

Tags: Black labor; white wealth; African American domestic worker holding white baby; walking towards camera; toddlers; horses; horseback riding; horse ranch; rolling hills; hair in gate; women smoking; cigarettes; cloche hats; thumbing one's nose; possible man in drag; shirtless men playing tennis; sandboxes; kid playing with garden hose; Sunday best; fancy dress; 1920s fashion; bouquets; boutonnieres; house weddings; small weddings; throwing rice; newlyweds; clay tennis courts; summer days; puppies; wicker baby buggy; bobbed hair; dogs; boys; playing dress-up; tails; top hats; top hat and tails; smiling at camera; giggling; sausage curls; tricycles; ladders; sisters; dancing; LGBTQI research interest;

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Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Unidentified Home Movie Collection PC-0526, Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection

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

Production Date: 1925; 1926

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Geographical Location: USA; Pennsylvania; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Genre/Form: home movie

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Film Format: 16mm film

Element: reversal

Color: b&w

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Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: plus, circle circle circle, square triangle

Frame Rate: 12 fps

Length (feet): 474