Home Movie: Meyer Collection: 001424 (silent)

Description: A fun-loving and affectionate Berkeley family with three children often color-coordinate their outfits for the camera over seasons of picnics, fishing, pony rides, birthdays, and holidays, celebrated at home and in East Bay Regional Parks including Tilden Park. Briefly seen is a Black woman helping to care for the children.

Note on can:
"#7 - Meyers 1951"

Note in can: "#7 Life with the Meyers - 1951
1) Valentine Day Feb 14, 1951
2) March 1951 - Easter 1951
Sharon, Sarg + Barbara
3) Fathers Day June 17, 1951
Conn Lake
4) July 1, 1951 - Trout Fishing
4A) Sept 4, 1951 Family Shot
5) Sept 9, 1951 - Visiting Uncle Mel - Aunt Shellie in Berkeley
6) Sept 9, 1951 - Tilden Park
7) Sept 10, 1951 - Sarg + Barbara playing
8) Oct 5, 1951 - Barbara's Birthday"


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Subjects: 1950s, Celebrations and ceremonies, Leisure and recreation, Holidays

Tags: children; suburbs; red outfits; children holding hands; sidewalks; toy cars; African American domestic worker; Easter; Easter egg hunt; Easter baskets; See's Candies; seasonal candies; chocolates; yards; chocolate bunnies; picnics; children with dad; fatherhood; dad swings children around; father cuddles children; children cuddle with father; intimate families; girl with baseball bat; softball; girl and father play softball in a gravel parking lot; trout fishing; hook and line fishing; 1950s clothing; coulottes; era of wicker accessories; leather accessories; wicker creel; dressy occasion; mom and daughter wear peach colored outfits; color coordination; coordinated outfits; kids drinking soda; soda pop; matching outfits; posing for camera; pony rides; possible Tilden Park; East Bay Regional Parks; swing sets; cartwheels; somersaults; home interiors; living rooms; fireplaces; dolls; pianos; siblings; taffeta dresses; brother kisses sisters; birthdays; opening presents; youngest girl receives doll; pink frosting; second birthday; baby turns 2; homemade birthday cakes; children wear bibs; people eating together; chocolate cakes; playing baseball; father carrying child over shoulder; circus motif wall decorations;

Film Sponsor:

Creator: Wesley and Ellie Meyer

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Distributor:

Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Wesley and Ellie Meyer Collection PC-0162, Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection

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

Production Date: 1951

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Geographical Location: USA; California; Berkeley, California

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 triangle, square plus

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 245