Home Movie: Slabaugh Collection: 010354 (silent)

Description: Members of a Mennonite community in Ohio document their education, farming, and religious activities as well as social and cultural activities including a quilting bee, a choir practice, and a trip by bus to a lakeshore summer camp. Photographed partly in black and white, with color sequences exhibiting the pastel chromatic values of wartime Kodachrome.

note on container states: "Bluffton College Chorus @ Nappanee Church
Church Camp. Church 1946 Spring Summer"


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Subjects: 1940s, Religion, Schools, Music, Children, Women, Women's history and culture, Leisure and recreation

Tags: image extends between perforations; children at school; children looking at camera; churches; dioramas; paintings; religion; Christianity; Anabaptist faiths; Mennonites; people sitting in church pews; "Jagdeeshpore - Where Our Books Are Going" sign; Jagdishpur; map of India; biography of George Washington Carver; kids in Sunday school; pews; congregants; farming; agriculture; cattle; cows; fields; horse and buggy; horses pulling carts; fatherhood; parenthood; man helps toddler walk; group of women posing for camera; women wearing headscarves; aprons; picnics; emerging from cellar with plates of food; bicycles; playing in the front yard; front porch; conductors; chorus practice; singing; sewing; group of women quilting; quilting bee; quilts; hand-sewing; luggage; choir robes; buses; bus drivers; people assembled by chartered bus; choir robes; wartime Kodachrome; Bluffton College Choir; striped shirts; breezy; loading luggage on top of school buses; 1940s bus transportation; 1940s luggage; 1940s clothing; 1940s cars; Nappanee Church; church camps; summer camp; lakeshore cabins; summer; religious communities;

Film Sponsor:

Creator: Slabaugh Family

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Distributor:

Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Dr. Lotus Mast Slabaugh Collection PC-0112, Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection

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

Production Date: 1947

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Geographical Location: USA; Ohio; Bluffton, Ohio; Nappanee, Indiana

Genre/Form: home movie

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Film Format: 16mm film

Element: positive, reversal

Color: b&w, color

Color Process: Kodachrome, Ansco Color

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: circle triangle, triangle circle

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 465