Home Movie: Metzler Collection: 005176 (silent)

Description: A Ford company picnic with employees grilling food, playing baseball, swimming, and more.

Camp Dearborn was opened under the racist former mayor of Dearborn, Orville Hubbard, and was racially segregated until 1965. See this article for context about its eventual integration: www.newspapers.com/article/the-windsor-star-camp-dearborn-injustice/93721922/ (accessed: 2024-02-27)

note on container: "FORD 1952 CAMP DEARBORN COMPANY PICNIC. 1952 FORD XMAS PARTY"

can engraving: "BELL & HOWELL CO CHICAGO"

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Subjects: 1950s, Corporations, Leisure and recreation, Games and play, Food

Tags: racially segregated spaces; picnics; picnic table; drinking soda; soft drinks; barbecues; grilling meat; beer bottles; children; 50s fashion; baseball; company picnics; playing catch; throwing football; University of Michigan shirts; horseshoes game; beaches; lake; summer; swimming; underwater handstands; well pumps; man blowing bubble gum; bubble popping on man's face; Camp Dearborn; Ford company picnic; Ford Motor Company; automobile industry; 1952 Michigan license plate

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Creator: Dick and Doris Metzler

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Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Metzler Collection PC-0249, Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection

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

Production Date: 1952

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Geographical Location: USA; Michigan; Dearborn, Michigan; Milford, Michigan

Genre/Form: home movie

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Film Format: 8mm film

Element: reversal

Color: color

Color Process: Kodachrome

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: plus

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 167