Home Movie: Coy Collection: 005086 (silent)

Genre: home movie

Complete Record: Description: Intimate shots of a loving couple exchanging a long kiss; unsupervised children playing with broomsticks and yard scraps; elder women in floral dresses hanging laundry and performing yard work; and many more scenes filmed at home in South Central Los Angeles (South Vermont Avenue between 79th and 82nd Streets) and around Torrance, California. There is detailed documentation of life in the neighborhood and shots of both residential and business streets. Notes with film state: "Fiesta / #1 / #2 / Black Family / Vernon and [Florence] / Barbara and [John]" Reuse Statement: For information on reusing Prelinger Archives footage and obtaining written usage agreements, please visit www.prelinger.com. Subjects: 1960s, People of African origin or descent, Leisure and recreation, Families, Housing, Cities Tags: image extends between perforations; backyards; roses; garages; laundry; clotheslines; palm trees; patios; man with camera; Polaroid camera; folding chairs; garden hoses; smelling the roses; kissing; women smoking; cigarettes; playing conga drums; kitchens; cooking; birthday cakes; sewing machines; city buses; walking by record shop; Lee Wissler Volkswagen, 8301 South Vermont, Los Angeles; J.B. Finney Used Cars; 8200 block South Vermont Avenue; Pepperdine College, Los Angeles campus, 81st and Vermont; sidewalks; filmed upside down; fire trucks; fish tanks; alarm clocks reading 8:36; filmed through screen window; berets; dogs; kittens; puppies; front yards; dusk; animation; filmed off tv; parakeets; airplanes heading to Los Angeles International Airport, LAX; Los Angeles-style two-story apartment buildings; apartment balconies and parking areas; rooftops; toiletries; birdcages; self filming; sunglasses; shelves of liquor; paint project; man with swisher cigar; multigenerational families; Volkswagen Beetles; Black Volkswagen owners; tropical fish tanks; man reading Information Please Almanac, 1965 edition; Los Angeles street sign 75th St 400W; daily life Film Sponsor: Creator: Coy Family Credits: Distributor: Contributor: Prelinger Archives Source Collection: Coy Collection PC-0191, Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive Production Date: circa 1965 Release Date: Geographical Location: USA; California; Torrance, California; Los Angeles, California; South Central Los Angeles, California Genre/Form: home movie Language: eng Rights: Film Format: 8mm film Element: reversal, original Color: color Color Process: Kodachrome Sound or Silent: silent Film Soundtrack Type: mos Edge Code: square circle, triangle circle, triangle triangle Frame Rate: 16 fps Length (feet): 489