Home Movie: Philip W. Sanford Collection: 010012 (silent)

Description: Made by a student at the University of Southern California. Shows early cross-country air travel; a visit by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt to USC and the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on October 1, 1935; and sidewalk hijinks. A notable sequence shows two young boys of African American and Asian descent goofing for the camera.

Original reel says: "Across by Air 1935-36"

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Subjects: 1930s, Transportation, Aviation and aerospace, Youth, Latina/o/x/e and/or Hispanic people, Latina/o/x/e and/or Hispanic history and culture , Tourism

Tags: pointing to journey on map; propeller planes; sleeper cabins; airports; filmed from airplane window; aerials; clouds; person of color; smoking; male students smoking pipes; shaking hands; loading luggage; American Airlines sleeper aircraft; pen pointer on map; boarding aircraft; taxiing on runways; palm trees; female students; UCLA campus; University of California, Los Angeles; roughhousing on streets; crowd of students gathered around celebrity car; President Franklin Delano Roosevelt doffing hat; FDR; Eleanor Roosevelt; Los Angeles Coliseum; motorcycles; motorcade; procession; gridiron; Olvera Street; El Pueblo de Los Angeles; dancing; little girls; mariachis; ducks; coots; boats; Westlake Park; MacArthur Park; bowing to camera; person with camera; 16mm projector; cigarettes; projecting film; screen; titles; fountains; fuzzy sweaters; shoe shining; Black man shining shoes; person filming; newspapers; The Hub; Trojan Theater; Phelps-Terkel haberdasher; marquees; "Thanks A Million" film on marquee; "In Old Kentucky" film on marquee; Asian boy and African American boy playing together on sidewalk; University of Southern California; Currie's Ice Cream truck; man holding box motion picture camera; newspaper headlines; racetracks; horseback riding; jockeys; bleachers; stands; spectators; gambling; horses; filming; Santa Anita racetrack; trick shots; backwards filming; backwards smoking; apartment buildings; Exposition Park neighborhood

Film Sponsor:

Creator: Philip W. Sanford

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Distributor:

Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Philip W. Sanford Collection, Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection

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

Production Date: 1935-1936

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Geographical Location: USA; California; Los Angeles, California; Arcadia, California

Genre/Form: home movie

Language: eng

Rights:

Film Format: 16mm film

Element: positive

Color: color, b&w

Color Process: Agfa

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: plus square

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 382