Home Movie: Evan Barber Collection: 098882 (silent)

Description: A multigenerational family, including a child expressing Trisomy 21 or Down Syndrome, enjoy seasonal daily life in 1940s South Dakota. Centered on a Christmas morning with exciting gifts all around and with adults actively parenting the disabled child. With outdoor activities summer and winter, with cold winter days including a frozen marsh behind the house and a steamy train platform.

Notes from can: "#2 Christmas 1942, Barbers in So. Dak. 1943."



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Subjects: 1940s, Families, Holidays, Children, People with disabilities and those who are d/Deaf and/or hard of hearing

Tags: people with congenital disabilities; Trisomy 21; children with Down syndrome; homemade titles; 1942; Christmas; steam locomotives; trains; tire tracks in snow; train stations; Lanark sign; artificial Christmas trees; tinsel; Christmas morning; children opening presents; babies; toddlers; young children; antimacassars; robe and slippers; toys; baby dolls; wristwatches; Elgin watches; gift exchange; mothers; fathers; parenting; parenthood; close-ups; zip-up cardigans; Sticker Pictures book; sticker books; father engages with disabled child; front doors; snow; winter; cold weather; railroad tracks; passenger train with steam clouds; swing sets; railroad engineer hats; rompers; ribbon sandals; ladies' hats; 1940s fashion; walking toward camera; mittens; sunsets; child with disabilities included in family life;

Film Sponsor:

Creator: Robert J. Barber

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Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Evan Barber Collection PC-0205, Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection

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

Production Date: 1942; 1943

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Geographical Location: USA; South Dakota; Britton, South Dakota

Genre/Form: home movie

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Film Format: 8mm film

Element: positive, reversal, original

Color: color

Color Process: Kodachrome

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: circle, square plus

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 137