Home Movie: Janet Dill Collection: 004062 (silent)

Description: Residential gardens and greenhouses, and the processes of excavation, construction, and completion of a backyard swimming pool featuring a montage with overlapped exposures of laborers at work. Brief view of Morton's Terminal auto parts emporium.

Can notes: "B11 / 1959, Loudonville Summer"

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Subjects: 1950s,Labor,Domestic life,Leisure and recreation,Social classes,Construction

Tags: homemade titles; Adirondacks; affluence; rose gardens; Weimaraner dogs; lawns; flower beds; flowers; roses; foxgloves; barbecues; greenhouses; "Morton's Terminal Grand Opening" sign; montages; multiple exposures; Latino (?) landscape and construction labor; summer; excavations; dump trucks; lily pads; water lilies; swimming pool construction; Black domestic labor; filmed through windshield; panoramic views; concrete mixer trucks; go-karts; Brae Burn Country Club; golfing; autumn; workers moving larger rocks; rain

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Creator: Janet Dill

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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: 1959-06-25; 1959-08-07; 1959-09

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Geographical Location: USA; Albany, New York; Loudonville, New York; Massachusetts; Newton, Massachusetts; Adirondack Park, New York; Purchase, 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, reversal

Color: color

Color Process: Kodachrome

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: triangle, circle circle

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 195