Home Movie: Knowlton Collection: 004402 (silent)

Year Published: 1953

Description:

Description: Family life in the greater San Francisco Bay Area, including images of family gatherings, picnics, children playing in the yard, and more. Also includes images of roller skating rinks, a shipbuilding workshop, church gatherings, and more.

Note: rolls near the end of this film are unstable and out of focus due to camera malfunction. Some parts of film are solarized and may have been hand-processed, giving them an artistic quality.

Reuse Statement: For information on reusing Prelinger Archives footage and obtaining written usage agreements, please visit www.prelinger.com.

Subjects: 1950s, Domestic life, Families, Sports

Tags: boxing; child riding tricycle; image extends between perforations; filmed through windshield; filmed while driving; bridges; driving POV pulling up to farm; farms; three people walking on dirt road; women reading magazines; foothills; vineyards; boys with guns; two boys walking on train tracks and balancing on rails while holding hands; bungalows; children; home exteriors; girl on tricycle; women at dining room table; families; families on sidewalk in North Oakland or Berkeley residential street; truck in residential neighborhood; long driving POV from Oakland residential neighborhood to San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge; driving POVs along East Bay highway; San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge toll plaza; bridge driving POV past Treasure Island into San Francisco; San Francisco cityscapes; alarm clocks; man in bed; man shaving with electric razor; man making bed; Stony Brook Park sign; picnics; families on sidewalk; woman with car; birthday cakes; family birthday parties; man hanging laundry; clothes lines; people outside of church; Seal Rocks; Golden Gate Park Japanese Tea Garden; Port of Oakland; filmed from boat; family at cabin; boy with branch; older generation at dining room table; elders; boat building; shipbuilding; workshop building wooden boat; rollerskating rinks; baby sleeping in car; close-up of boy sucking thumb (solarized); family outdoors; Penny Saver Market and Donut Shop (solarized); driving POVs through mountain towns; Lost Landscapes; downtown San Francisco

Film Sponsor:

Creator: E. A. Knowlton

Credits:

Distributor:

Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: E.A. Knowlton Collection PC-0035, Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection

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

Production Date: circa 1950; circa 1951; circa 1953

Release Date:

Geographical Location: USA; California; San Francisco, California; Hayward, California; Oakland, California; Alameda County, California

Genre/Form: home movie

Language:

Rights:

Film Format: 16mm film

Element: reversal, original

Color: b&w

Color Process: Dupont, Eastman Reversal

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: circle plus, triangle plus, plus triangle

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 638

Complete Record: Description: Family life in the greater San Francisco Bay Area, including images of family gatherings, picnics, children playing in the yard, and more. Also includes images of roller skating rinks, a shipbuilding workshop, church gatherings, and more. Note: rolls near the end of this film are unstable and out of focus due to camera malfunction. Some parts of film are solarized and may have been hand-processed, giving them an artistic quality. Reuse Statement: For information on reusing Prelinger Archives footage and obtaining written usage agreements, please visit www.prelinger.com. Subjects: 1950s, Domestic life, Families, Sports Tags: boxing; child riding tricycle; image extends between perforations; filmed through windshield; filmed while driving; bridges; driving POV pulling up to farm; farms; three people walking on dirt road; women reading magazines; foothills; vineyards; boys with guns; two boys walking on train tracks and balancing on rails while holding hands; bungalows; children; home exteriors; girl on tricycle; women at dining room table; families; families on sidewalk in North Oakland or Berkeley residential street; truck in residential neighborhood; long driving POV from Oakland residential neighborhood to San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge; driving POVs along East Bay highway; San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge toll plaza; bridge driving POV past Treasure Island into San Francisco; San Francisco cityscapes; alarm clocks; man in bed; man shaving with electric razor; man making bed; Stony Brook Park sign; picnics; families on sidewalk; woman with car; birthday cakes; family birthday parties; man hanging laundry; clothes lines; people outside of church; Seal Rocks; Golden Gate Park Japanese Tea Garden; Port of Oakland; filmed from boat; family at cabin; boy with branch; older generation at dining room table; elders; boat building; shipbuilding; workshop building wooden boat; rollerskating rinks; baby sleeping in car; close-up of boy sucking thumb (solarized); family outdoors; Penny Saver Market and Donut Shop (solarized); driving POVs through mountain towns; Lost Landscapes; downtown San Francisco Film Sponsor: Creator: E. A. Knowlton Credits: Distributor: Contributor: Prelinger Archives Source Collection: E.A. Knowlton Collection PC-0035, Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive Production Date: circa 1950; circa 1951; circa 1953 Release Date: Geographical Location: USA; California; San Francisco, California; Hayward, California; Oakland, California; Alameda County, California Genre/Form: home movie Language: Rights: Film Format: 16mm film Element: reversal, original Color: b&w Color Process: Dupont, Eastman Reversal Sound or Silent: silent Film Soundtrack Type: mos Edge Code: circle plus, triangle plus, plus triangle Frame Rate: 16 fps Length (feet): 638