Home Movie: Calvin M. Kershner Collection: 010037 (silent)

Description: Content advisory: Moving images may contain offensive, outdated and even harmful content. This 1928 film holds multiple instances including uninvited photography of Black labor, Black poverty, offensive terminology in intertitles, and carceral labor. Viewers are advised.

Calvin Kershner takes a road trip across the United States with friends, driving a Buick car in 1928. In this reel he visits the Atlantic City Boardwalk and Washington D.C. and Virginia area monuments before traveling through Southern states during the Jim Crow Era where he engages in uninvited photography of people engaged in everyday activities. This reel, one in a series, concludes at Lake Pontchartrain.

Title: One Beautiful Wandering - From the Atlantic to the Pacific and Mexico to Canada in a Buick

Reuse Statement: For information on reusing Prelinger Archives footage and obtaining written usage agreements, please visit www.prelinger.com.

Subjects: 1920s, Road trips, Black history and culture , Racism , Tourism, Labor

Tags: intertitles; tinted titles; hand traces trip route on map; man filming with motion picture camera; cameraperson on screen; 1920s cars; 1920s clothing; homosocial activity; three men depart on a road trip; man editing 16mm film at inspection bench; main streets; Shamokin street scenes; Shamokin Volunteer Firemen statue; Kershner Buick Company sign; Atlantic City Boardwalk; rainy days; men filling bottle with Atlantic ocean water; Tome University; Susquehanna River; Conowingo Dam; high angle view of Washington D.C. from top of Washington Monument; spliced in stock footage of Washington, D.C.; Natural Bridge; Staunton, Virginia; cattle herd on dirt roads; cotton fields; Jim Crow South; Black people in cotton fields; white gaze; cotton plantations; cotton bales transported by horse-drawn cart; shanty houses; people filmed without permission; chain gang; carceral labor; Louisiana; Lake Pontchartrain; cypress swamps

Film Sponsor:

Creator: Calvin Myles Kershner

Credits:

Distributor:

Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Calvin M. Kershner Collection PC-0025, Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection

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

Production Date: 1928-09-29

Release Date:

Geographical Location: USA; Pennsylvania; Shamokin, Pennsylvania; New Jersey; Atlantic City, New Jersey; Washington, D.C.; Virginia; Tennessee; Mississippi; Louisiana; New Orleans, Louisiana; Staunton, Virginia

Genre/Form: home movie

Language: eng

Rights:

Film Format: 16mm film

Element: positive, reversal, print

Color: color, b&w

Color Process: tinted

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: circle circle circle

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 369