Home Movie: Lloyd Royal Collection: 011062 (silent)

Description:

Description: Content warning: This film includes images of African American workers filmed from a white gaze, likely without their full consent.

A portrait of civic and commercial life the racially segregated small town of Hazlehurst, Mississippi, in the Jim Crow South of the United States. Features white youth in a schoolyard, white teenagers at a soda fountain; workers and patrons of a grocery store, a bank, a shoe hospital, a laundry, a funeral home, and more. The Black laundry workers are shown leaving the workplace separately from the white workers.

Filmed by Lloyd Royal, who owned and operated movie theaters in Mississippi.

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

Subjects: 1940s, People of African origin or descent, Commerce, Racism , Youth, Schools, Labor

Tags: Southern United States; racial segregation; Lloyd Royal presents title; Hazlehurst, Center of Copiah, Mississippi's Most Diversified County sign; churches; schoolyards; students; books; notebooks; papers; bicycles; Copiah County School Bus; school buses; Carr’s Grocery; grocery stores; customers; cars; families; African American people; banks; Drink Coca-Cola sign; Kaywood Plantations bus; Ford Cleaners interiors; shop clerks; consumers; stores; shops; file folders; secretaries; Bardwell's Shoe Hospital sign; cobblers; shoe repair; teenagers; diners; malt shops; soda fountains; ice cream; milkshakes; Pitt's Fountain; Kaywood Plantations truck; groceries; canned foods; Ford Cleaners van; workers; labor; steam press; cleaners; laundry; McLemore the Florist storefront; plants; flowers; wreaths; power lines; trains; train tracks; deliveryman; calendars; file cabinets; offices; telephones; clocks; dogs; Francis Funeral Home; undertakers; funeral parlors; caskets; Wise Tractor Co.; refrigerators; workshops; farming equipment; tractors; Ford Ferguson System; gender roles; small town life; main street; daily life; everyday life

Film Sponsor:

Creator: Lloyd Royal

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Distributor:

Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Lloyd Royal Collection PC-0410, Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection

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

Production Date: 1947-02

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Geographical Location: USA; Mississippi; Hazlehurst, Mississippi; Copiah County, Mississippi; Southern United States

Genre/Form: home movie

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Film Format: 16mm film

Element: duplicate reversal

Color: b&w

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Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: circle triangle

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 368

Complete Record: Description: Content warning: This film includes images of African American workers filmed from a white gaze, likely without their full consent. A portrait of civic and commercial life the racially segregated small town of Hazlehurst, Mississippi, in the Jim Crow South of the United States. Features white youth in a schoolyard, white teenagers at a soda fountain; workers and patrons of a grocery store, a bank, a shoe hospital, a laundry, a funeral home, and more. The Black laundry workers are shown leaving the workplace separately from the white workers. Filmed by Lloyd Royal, who owned and operated movie theaters in Mississippi. Reuse Statement: For information on reusing Prelinger Archives footage and obtaining written usage agreements, please visit www.prelinger.com. Subjects: 1940s, People of African origin or descent, Commerce, Racism , Youth, Schools, Labor Tags: Southern United States; racial segregation; Lloyd Royal presents title; Hazlehurst, Center of Copiah, Mississippi's Most Diversified County sign; churches; schoolyards; students; books; notebooks; papers; bicycles; Copiah County School Bus; school buses; Carr’s Grocery; grocery stores; customers; cars; families; African American people; banks; Drink Coca-Cola sign; Kaywood Plantations bus; Ford Cleaners interiors; shop clerks; consumers; stores; shops; file folders; secretaries; Bardwell's Shoe Hospital sign; cobblers; shoe repair; teenagers; diners; malt shops; soda fountains; ice cream; milkshakes; Pitt's Fountain; Kaywood Plantations truck; groceries; canned foods; Ford Cleaners van; workers; labor; steam press; cleaners; laundry; McLemore the Florist storefront; plants; flowers; wreaths; power lines; trains; train tracks; deliveryman; calendars; file cabinets; offices; telephones; clocks; dogs; Francis Funeral Home; undertakers; funeral parlors; caskets; Wise Tractor Co.; refrigerators; workshops; farming equipment; tractors; Ford Ferguson System; gender roles; small town life; main street; daily life; everyday life Film Sponsor: Creator: Lloyd Royal Credits: Distributor: Contributor: Prelinger Archives Source Collection: Lloyd Royal Collection PC-0410, Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive Production Date: 1947-02 Release Date: Geographical Location: USA; Mississippi; Hazlehurst, Mississippi; Copiah County, Mississippi; Southern United States Genre/Form: home movie Language: Rights: Film Format: 16mm film Element: duplicate reversal Color: b&w Color Process: Sound or Silent: silent Film Soundtrack Type: mos Edge Code: circle triangle Frame Rate: 16 fps Length (feet): 368