Home Movie: 098778 (silent)

Description: Labor, life, and landscapes in and around New Orleans, Louisiana in the 1930s. Includes images of African American people, often laboring and/or in rural settings, likely filmed from a white gaze and without consent.

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Subjects: 1930s,Labor,Industry,Commerce,Cities,People of African origin or descent,Rural life

Tags: dogs; trucks; African American people; workers; lumber mills; sawmills; women's labor; wells; drawing water from a well; cauldrons; cooking over an open fire; rough-hewn clapboard house; horse-drawn carts; lumber yards; main street; downtown; destruction of homes; boats; ships; harbors; woman carrying basket on head; man carrying box on head; markets; tenements; graves; seagulls; burned frames; forests; oxcarts; panning shots; mountain vistas; horses; racetracks; jockeys; horse racing; horse races; Louisiana Jockey Club; St. Louis Cathedral; Andrew Jackson Equestrian Statue; Patio Nite Club sign; loading freight onto ships; parades; snow; U.S. Willow; steamboats; political posters; Huey P. Long; O.K. Allen; "Carry on the work of Huey P. Long and O.K. Allen" flyer; African American children; mansions; car ferries; gardens; ports; sailboats; reading; porches; cooking over a fire; National Recovery Administration (NRA) flag; street scenes; signs; damaged houses; crypts; cemeteries; graveyards; docks; farms; rivers; orchards; woman reading on the porch; New York City 1939 World's Fair sign on wagon; Texaco sign; Spanish moss; sculling

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Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: "Unidentified Home Movie Collection PC-0125

",Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection

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

Production Date: circa 1933-1939

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Geographical Location: USA; Louisiana; New Orleans, Louisiana

Genre/Form: home movie

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Film Format: 8mm film

Element: reversal

Color: b&w

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Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: triangle, square circle

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 209