Home Movie: Gee Collection: 097828 (silent)

Genre: home movie

Description: Description: In the mid-20th century a Chinese American family in San Francisco welcomes new babies and celebrates its young children and the delights available to them in Golden Gate Park with scenes at the Conservatory of Flowers and at the Children's Play Area and its carousel, as well as life around their California Street neighborhood.

Tape on can states:
"1949"

Note taped to can states:
"(5) 1949-1951"

Can embossed: "EKC"

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Subjects: 1940s, 1950s, Children, People of Asian and Pacific Islander origin or descent, Latina/o/x/e and/or Hispanic people, Families, Cities

Tags: playgrounds; kids; 1950s San Francisco children; integrated communities; multiethnic communities; Asian-American kids; Chinese American kids; Latinx kids; carousels; merry-go-rounds; Golden Gate Park; Lost Landscapes; adults holding toddlers on rings; adults posing with babies; adults posing with toddlers; picnic tables; walking towards camera; Lost Landscapes; tossing balls; steep hills; first steps; fathers and children; toddlers; mothers and children; grandparents; beckoning; sticking out tongue at camera; playing ball; picnics; integrated friend groups; white families; possible Marie-Louise Ansak; Dr. William Gee; On Lok history; California Street; cable cars; zoos; sun bears; giraffes; mini-trains; Herbert Fleishhacker Playfield Miniature Railroad; children's rail; miniature railroads; mini trains; zoos; lawns; picnic blankets; Conservatory of Flowers; parks; image extends between perforations; flower beds; sliding down handrails; sliding down bannisters; holding hands; cowboy boots; western costume; filmed from a moving vehicle; mom shows baby to camera inside car; Golden Gate Bridge; aprons; looking out windows; Asian American people; Chinese American families;

Film Sponsor:

Creator: Gee Family

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Distributor:

Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Gee Collection PC-0255, Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection

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

Production Date: 1949-1951

Release Date:

Geographical Location: USA; California; San Francisco, California

Genre/Form: home movie

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Film Format: 8mm film

Element: reversal, original

Color: b&w, color

Color Process: Kodachrome

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: plus triangle, plus square

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 199

Online Copy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAfyNvvjprQ

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