Home Movie: Janet Dill Collection: 004045 (silent)

Complete Record: Description: Home movie documenting leisure activities of a wealthy white family in the northeastern United States through the seasons, including images of African American domestic service workers; extensive coverage of horse racing at Saratoga Springs, New York, as well as a horse auction. Can notes: "A6 / 1953 Spring, Trotters with Gerrity's 'Pop' Reynolds / 1957, P-W's New Year's Day. Seth and Josh's B'day P. / 1958, New Year's Eve. Seth shooting at Reynolds. Thunder and Lightning / 1959, Week-end starring Josh Bridge / 'Still Pond.'" Lab stamp: "PROCESSED BY KODAK AUG 59" Reuse Statement: For information on reusing Prelinger Archives footage and obtaining written usage agreements, please visit www.prelinger.com. Subjects: 1950s, Children, Leisure and recreation, Human-animal relationships, Sports, Hunting, Holidays, Celebrations and ceremonies Tags: homemade titles; boys; little boys playing in a stable yard; horse stables; sulkies; harness racing; stablehands; working class people; racetracks; trotters; horse-drawn carts; timing a horse pulling a sulky; duck ponds; grandparents and grandchildren; lawns; piers; diving boards; animated titles; "Convention Yet"; beaches; beach chairs; sunbathing; "1/1 '57 at the Plowden-Wardlaws"; New Year's Day; snow; "Happy Birthday Seth and Josh"; birthday parties; birthday cakes; cutting the cake; "Happy 1958"; New Year's Eve parties; dancing; Christmas trees; tuxedos; evening gowns; "Hunting 1-4 '58"; grouse hunting; dead grouse; winter; "Jan. 13 '58 Thunder and Lightning Arrived"; Weimaraner puppies; Weimaraner dogs; dogs; boy holding up "Bin low? beat the cold with blue coal heat" sign; Morris Cafeteria sign; Louden Variety and Hardware sign; main street; barber shops; Carmichaels Ltd. Select Imports sign; African American domestic workers in white families; African American maids; barns in winter; dogs playing in snow; card tables; women playing bridge; card games; swimming pools; tractors; man and boy holding hands; lawn mowers; dogwood blossoms; circular driveways; diving boards; children swimming; "Saratoga Summer '59"; racetracks; horse racing; scoreboards; binoculars; spectators; spectator sports; "The Sharper"; horses; jockeys; "All Shook Up; A Day in Saratoga"; grooms; Mereworth Farm Yearlings sign; Fasig-Tipton Company; horse auctions; horse lineage charts; pedigrees; yearlings; Scottish terriers; thoroughbred horses; Siro's Restaurant sign; crashed car; wrecked car; African American waiters; Black service workers; monograms; cookouts; cocktail sausages; Saratoga Race Course; female filmmakers; women behind the camera; woman smoking; couples dancing; people eating; race horses Film Sponsor: Creator: Janet Dill Credits: Distributor: Contributor: Prelinger Archives Source Collection: Janet Dill Collection PC-0060, Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive Production Date: 1953; 1957-1959 Release Date: Geographical Location: USA; Saratoga Springs, New York; New York Genre/Form: home movie Language: eng Rights: Copyright by Josh Morton. Film appears here by his permission. Film Format: 8mm film Element: original Color: color Color Process: Kodachrome Sound or Silent: silent Film Soundtrack Type: mos Edge Code: triangle plus, square, circle circle Frame Rate: 16 fps Length (feet): 458