Home Movie: Tullio Pellegrini Collection: 003426 (silent)

Genre: home movie

Description:

Description: White vacationers visit the island of Jamaica, focusing a touristic and at times extractive gaze on interactions with local people. Includes a raft trip down a river and many scenes of rural and city life, especially depictions of young children outside of their school building and in public spaces.

Some footage on this shrunken roll is out of registration.

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

Subjects: 1940s, Settler colonialism, Tourism, Rural life, People of African origin or descent, Black history and culture

Tags: poverty tourism; rural communities; horses; carts; palm trees; oxen; rafts; rapids; rivers; tourists riding on wooden raft down rapids; boat tours; filmed from moving boat; camera shutter problems; lush hills; Tower Isle hotel pool; overexposed film; bathing suits; resorts; waterfalls; swimming; dogs; Dalmatians; filmed from a moving vehicle; filmed through windshield; driving POVs down main street; bicycles; piers; cranes; crane moving bundles of sticks; bougainvilleas; shacks; woman carrying load on head alongside of road; milk jugs; baskets; goats; playing cricket; fruit trees; laundry; clotheslines; man climbing tree; eating coconuts; machetes; drinking fresh coconut; schools; schoolchildren; chalk slates; smokestacks; gas stations; coastlines; oceans; waves; Jamaican people; Afro-Caribbean people; banana plants; oxen pulling cart filled with sticks; street scenes; person with camera; children writing on chalk slates; waving at camera

Film Sponsor:

Creator: Tullio Pellegrini

Credits:

Distributor:

Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Tullio Pellegrini Collection PC-0291, Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection

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

Production Date: circa 1949

Release Date:

Geographical Location: Jamaica; Tower Isle, Jamaica

Genre/Form: home movie

Language:

Rights:

Film Format: 16mm film

Element: original, reversal

Color: color

Color Process: Kodachrome

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type:

Edge Code: plus

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 550

Complete Record: Description: White vacationers visit the island of Jamaica, focusing a touristic and at times extractive gaze on interactions with local people. Includes a raft trip down a river and many scenes of rural and city life, especially depictions of young children outside of their school building and in public spaces. Some footage on this shrunken roll is out of registration. Reuse Statement: For information on reusing Prelinger Archives footage and obtaining written usage agreements, please visit www.prelinger.com. Subjects: 1940s, Settler colonialism, Tourism, Rural life, People of African origin or descent, Black history and culture Tags: poverty tourism; rural communities; horses; carts; palm trees; oxen; rafts; rapids; rivers; tourists riding on wooden raft down rapids; boat tours; filmed from moving boat; camera shutter problems; lush hills; Tower Isle hotel pool; overexposed film; bathing suits; resorts; waterfalls; swimming; dogs; Dalmatians; filmed from a moving vehicle; filmed through windshield; driving POVs down main street; bicycles; piers; cranes; crane moving bundles of sticks; bougainvilleas; shacks; woman carrying load on head alongside of road; milk jugs; baskets; goats; playing cricket; fruit trees; laundry; clotheslines; man climbing tree; eating coconuts; machetes; drinking fresh coconut; schools; schoolchildren; chalk slates; smokestacks; gas stations; coastlines; oceans; waves; Jamaican people; Afro-Caribbean people; banana plants; oxen pulling cart filled with sticks; street scenes; person with camera; children writing on chalk slates; waving at camera Film Sponsor: Creator: Tullio Pellegrini Credits: Distributor: Contributor: Prelinger Archives Source Collection: Tullio Pellegrini Collection PC-0291, Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive Production Date: circa 1949 Release Date: Geographical Location: Jamaica; Tower Isle, Jamaica Genre/Form: home movie Language: Rights: Film Format: 16mm film Element: original, reversal Color: color Color Process: Kodachrome Sound or Silent: silent Film Soundtrack Type: Edge Code: plus Frame Rate: 16 fps Length (feet): 550