[Miscellaneous Newsreel Clips] (silent)

Description: Content warning: includes images of African American stereotypes, harkening back to the minstrel show. Also includes a scene of a young African American boy being bullied by white students at 18:38.

A compilation of selects from newsreels, ordered during the production of the film Atomic Cafe but not used. This film reel was assembled by Petrified films for a stock footage order by ABC Life Magazine. The footage is probably sourced from Universal Newsreels. Includes footage of the General Motors House of Tomorrow with the Frigidaire Kitchen of Tomorrow (1954).

Can states: "PETRIFIED FILMS, Inc. / ABC - Life mag. for transfer / Roll 6 - 16mm Col Pos. - A-wind / DO NOT BREAK DOWN THIS ROLL - MATCHES PET 5036"; "ABC/LIFE MAG. Roll #6 - 16mm C POS. -- OR ROLL #1? / PET 5036 - DO NOT BREAK DOWN"

Note taped to can lid states: "Fallout shelter exhibition transferred to 1" for ABC 'Our World' 1961"

Head leader: "ABC Selects PET 5036 / Hula Hoops"

Tail leader: "FGM / Petrified Films, Inc. / ABC Time Life Order (FADS)"

Leader segments spliced into film, notes in order from beginning to end:

"fat boy hula hoop- pulled from AI / from Comedy Tonite roll- may not belong here / assorted shots from Comedy Tonite roll- includes car stuffing- pulled from ABC Life Mag. roll / Edsel (fads) Pet 5011- may not belong in this spot / A-1 [Rheen] Wheel / A1 paddle ball / A2 underwater beauty contest / A2 [Edgar] hair styles + goggles wiper / pulled from B1- [Educated...fashion...] / House of Tomorrow B1 / from B1 Army Brats Listen to Records / Flag Pole Dancing 4-52 / pulled yo yo's + water skiing from B-7 / Bongo Boards B-7 / 40's dancing from B-7 to here / C1 Hep Cats / C2 pillow fight / C-2 [radiation suit] / D-4 German hula hoop / Vancouver man in fallout shelter / Meridian Prods. Order / Shelter"

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Subjects: Games and play, Domestic life, Racism , 1960s, Human-animal relationships, 1950s, 1930s

Tags: newsreel stunts and oddities; hula hooping competitions; stand up bass; live music; audiences; motion picture cameras; hula hooping tricks; animal tricks; dancing; people of African origin or descent; butts wagging; beatniks; musical chairs; dogs; German Shepherds; rabbits; hula hooping dog; "Friday Legal Holiday No Business Transacted" sign in front of cashier's or teller's window; family driving in Edsel convertible; German Rhönrad play; wheel gymnastics; German wheel; horses; horse races; ping pong; blowing bubble gum underwater; montage of car crashes; automobile crashes; windshield wiper goggles; robot lawn mower; Frigidaire Kitchen of Tomorrow; futurism; roasting chicken; rotisserie chicken; fashion; evening gowns; hairstyling; dinner parties; dance; record hop; teenagers listening to records; American School in Germany students, 1953; yoyo contest; unibrows; group waterskiing; water skis; sports; water sports; waterskier flying off ramp; California; Bongo Board; balancing board; swing dancing; Harvest Moon Ball, New York; competitions; playing cards; sleeping; sleepovers; slumber parties; pillow fights; ballerinas; gas masks; inflatable radiation safety suits; radioactivity; hazmat suits; people of color; quirky; underwater beauty pageant; rollerskating atop flagpole; "Flagpole-skater"; fallout shelter demonstrations; backyard fallout shelter; bullies; minstrelsy; African American stereotypes; pie in face; telephone booth stuffing; car stuffing; stunts;

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Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: The Archives Project

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

Production Date: circa 1930s-1967

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Geographical Location: Germany; Canada; Vancouver, Canada; Poland; USA; Texas; Dallas, Texas; New York; New York, New York; California; Pacific Grove, California; Florida; Denmark; Australia; Washington

Genre/Form: newsreel

Language: eng

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Film Format: 16mm film

Element: positive

Color: b&w

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Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: circle circle, triangle square triangle, cross triangle cross

Frame Rate: 24 fps

Length (feet): 1065