Scenes from the daily life of a Texas farm family.
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Topics: Amateur films, Agriculture: Farms and farming, Rural America
Detailed documentation of the "World of Tomorrow" in beautiful Kodachrome.
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Topics: World's Fairs: New York, 1939-40, Amateur films
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Topics: prelinger, home movies
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Topics: prelinger, home movies
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Topics: Earthquakes: San Francisco, 1906, San Francisco: Disasters, Amateur Film
Amateur pictures, including aerials and color shot from ground level, of the San Francisco World's Fair on Treasure Island.
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Topics: World's Fairs: San Francisco, 1939-40, Amateur films
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Topics: home movies, prelinger
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Topics: prelinger, home movies
Kodachrome footage of the San Francisco World's Fair, held on Treasure Island.
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Topic: World's Fairs: San Francisco, 1939
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"My Alaska Cruise" (R1) California tourism, June 1938 - Santa Cruz, San Francisco and Redwood Empire, then Coastal Alaska in 1938 from a shipboard perspective, with stop at Ketchikan; everyday street scenes; totem pole shop. Faded color intercut with black-and-white sequences; many different film stocks. Part 1 of 2. See also Part 2 - Home Movie: 010174
Topics: Leisure, Tourism, 1930s
To come.
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Topics: prelinger, home movies
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04/23
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"My Alaska Cruise" (R2) Coastal Alaska in 1938 from a shipboard perspective, with stops at Wrangell, Juneau, Sitka, glacier tourism, iceberg POVs, Indigenous Alaskans; everyday street scenes. Faded color intercut with BW sequences; many different film stocks. Part 2 of 2. See also Part 1 - Home Movie: 010158
Topics: Leisure, Tourism, 1930s, Indigenous people
Detailed documentation of the "World of Tomorrow" in beautiful Kodachrome.
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Topics: World's Fairs: New York, 1939-40, Amateur films
Home movie: 010112_001: 1950s road trip Las Vegas and desert southwest
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Topics: 1950s, road trip, Mojave desert, driving, ghost town, Death Valley, Las Vegas, neon, Sahara hotel,...
Detailed documentation of the "World of Tomorrow" in beautiful Kodachrome.
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Topics: World's Fairs: New York, 1939-40, Amateur films
To come.
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Topics: home movies, prelinger
Detailed documentation of the "World of Tomorrow" in beautiful Kodachrome. (partially on 4156_HM_Medicus_collection_New_York_Worlds_Fair_1939-40_Reel_6)
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Topics: World's Fairs: New York, 1939-40, Amateur films
Detailed documentation of the "World of Tomorrow" in beautiful Kodachrome.
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Topics: World's Fairs: New York, 1939-40, Amateur films
Bohemian Club members relax and line up for a meal at the Bohemian Grove encampment.
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Topics: San Francisco: Bohemian Club, Recreation, Gender roles
to come
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Topics: prelinger, home movies
Daily life in a South Dakota town during the Great Depression, shot by Ivan Besse.
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Topics: Amateur films, Home movies, South Dakota: Everyday life
Home movie: 170002_001: 1940s California Bay Area family local life and trip to Puerto Rico
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Topics: 1940s, California, Oakland, Bay Area, family, home, car maintenance, children, beach, Alameda...
Detailed documentation of the "World of Tomorrow" in beautiful Kodachrome.
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Topics: World's Fairs: New York, 1939-40, Amateur films
Investigation of German industrial production capabilities after the devastation of World War II. With striking images of destroyed German cities and factories. Amateur film made by George T. Fonda, assistant to the president, Weirton Steel Company.
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Topics: World War II: Postwar issues, World War II: Germany, Germany
0629 PA8770 [Parade in New York] 16 Koda orig pix
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Topic: need meta
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Topic: need meta
Summary: Beach vacation with the wealthy. 1. Pier sequences with some people in rowboats and others on the pier. (black and white). 2. (color): Family with many children at the beach, swimming together. Everyone in white swim caps. 3. Picnic sequence with huge portions of huge watermelon. 4. dog chases gulls. 5. children sail model boats and row a canoe.
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Topics: home movies, vacation
Amateur film made in Manhattan, New York City during World War II, showing a Greenwich Village street art exhibition, springtime at Coney Island, and Greenwich Village stilled by a snowstorm.
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Topics: Amateur films, New York City: History, Weather: Blizzards
Daily life in a South Dakota town during the Great Depression, shot by Ivan Besse. This footage is on 0692_HM_Ivan_Besse_collection_Britton_South_Dakota_1938-39_Reel_1_12_01_09_00
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Topics: Amateur films, Home movies, South Dakota: Everyday life
Home movie: 010054_001: 1940s Great Lakes recreations and Ohio parade
Topics: 1940s, Great Lakes, family, lakeshore, summer recreation, boating, fishing, civic parade, Ohio,...
Investigation of German industrial production capabilities after the devastation of World War II. With striking images of destroyed German cities and factories. Amateur film made by George T. Fonda, assistant to the president, Weirton Steel Company.
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Topics: World War II: Postwar issues, World War II: Germany, Germany
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The 1936 New Year's Party
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Topic: Home movies
title: California 1941 title: Week-End Jaunts title: July 4, 1941 brief POV of Los Angeles streets through windshield VS Griffith Park and Griffith Observatory Griffith Observatory and Greek Theatre sign Sunset Boulevard seen in POV through windshield title: Homes of the Stars -- Jack Benny, 1148 Pickfair Way, Baby Snooks, Ralph Bellamy, Burns & Allen, Mary Boland, May Robson, Frank Morgan, "Humble Shack of Atwater Kent," "Here Lives Hormel, No Stockyard Smell,." Los...
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Topics: home movies, california, mt wilson
Investigation of German industrial production capabilities after the devastation of World War II. With striking images of destroyed German cities and factories. Amateur film made by George T. Fonda, assistant to the president, Weirton Steel Company.
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Topics: World War II: Postwar issues, World War II: Germany, Germany
Detailed documentation of the "World of Tomorrow" in beautiful Kodachrome. From 0165_HM_Medicus_collection_New_York_Worlds_Fair_1939-40_Reel_4_06_00_39_00
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Topics: World's Fairs: New York, 1939-40, Amateur films
Detailed documentation of the "World of Tomorrow" in beautiful Kodachrome.
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Topics: World's Fairs: New York, 1939-40, Amateur films
Home movie: 098161: 1950s Georgia family and neighbors
Topics: 1950s, working-class family, integrated neighborhood, Georgia, families, military family, army...
Pre-World War II San Francisco scenics.
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Topic: San Francisco: Scenics: Historical
Home movie: 098168: 1960s Canada family with two boys
Topics: 1960s, Canada, home, family, domestic, Mom, 1960s fashions, boys, cat
Home movie: 097823: 1920s, 1930s Havana Cuba with winter hiking
Topics: 1920s, 1930s, Havana, Cuba, city streets, ship lock, canal, forest fire, circus, circus tent...
To come.
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Topics: home movies, prelinger
Investigation of German industrial production capabilities after the devastation of World War II. With striking images of destroyed German cities and factories. Amateur film made by George T. Fonda, assistant to the president, Weirton Steel Company.
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Topics: World War II: Postwar issues, World War II: Germany, Germany
Detailed documentation of the "World of Tomorrow" in beautiful Kodachrome. (found on 0164_HM_Medicus_collection_New_York_Worlds_Fair_1939-40_Reel_2_04_00_47_00)
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Topics: World's Fairs: New York, 1939-40, Amateur films
Kodachrome home movie of a 1950s family's trailer travels to key U.S. tourist destinations.
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Topics: Amateur films, Tourism, Travelogues
Home movie: 010060: 1930s New York City labor strike
Topics: 1930s, New York City, I. J. Fox strike, strikers, picket line, protest signs, political protest,...
Home movie: 170004_003: 1940s California Alameda County family
Topics: 1940s, California, Alameda County, Oakland, family, home, WWII, gas station
Daily life in a South Dakota town during the Great Depression, shot by Ivan Besse. From towards the end of 0692_HM_Ivan_Besse_collection_Britton_South_Dakota_1938-39_Reel_1_12_01_09_00
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Topics: Amateur films, Home movies, South Dakota: Everyday life
Detailed documentation of the "World of Tomorrow" in beautiful Kodachrome.
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Topics: World's Fairs: New York, 1939-40, Amateur films
Daily life in a South Dakota town during the Great Depression, shot by Ivan Besse.
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Topics: Amateur films, Home movies, South Dakota: Everyday life
7 min., color and BW: Central Park (forward through first 53 seconds, then:) park festival scenes, hippies, excited kids, live music, rock and roll, a mime show, marionette show, "Save the Park" event, upper East side street scenes, gay men on a front stoop, a motorcycle
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Topics: Central Park, New York, hippies, marionettes, rock and roll, concert, families, counterculture,...
Home movie: 170003_apparent_alt: 1940s Northern California landscapes Pitt River to NASA Ames
Topics: 1940s, California, road trip, Pitt River, dirigible, blimp, Hangar One, NASA Ames Research Center,...
Home movie: 170004_004: 1940s California Alameda County family
Topics: 1940s, California, Alameda County, Oakland, family, home, WWII, gas station, dam, reservoir, Lake...
Kodachrome home movies from San Francisco's Golden Gate International Exposition (1939-40); views along the coast and highways of California and Oregon.
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Topics: World's Fairs: San Francisco, 1939-40, California: Scenics, Oregon: Scenics
Home movie: 170003_E: 1940s California landscapes with dam construction
Topics: 1940s, California, dams, dam construction, Shasta Dam, Sierra mountains, Hoover Dam, Lake Mead,...
Detailed documentation of the "World of Tomorrow" in beautiful Kodachrome.
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Topics: World's Fairs: New York, 1939-40, Amateur films
Mardi Gras: Parade of Nor.
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Topics: New Orleans, Mardi Gras, Celebrations
Home movie: 098165: 1960s California naval family at Marine World and Catalina Island
Topics: 1960s, California, family, home, naval family, Marine World, trained animals, Los Angeles, city...
Home movie: 010069: 1960s teenagers at a dance with Florida and home
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Topics: 1960s, Florida, tourism, alligator, swamp tour, beach, family, Christmas, girls, gifts, teenagers,...
Century of Progress exhibition; New York City scenes.
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Topics: World's Fairs: Chicago, 1933-34, New York City
Home movie: 170003: 1940s California road trip, landscapes, agriculture, blimps
Topics: 1940s, California, road trip, Pitt River, dirigible, blimp, Hangar One, NASA Ames Research Center,...
Home movie: 170004_001: 1940s Russian River trip and California agriculture
Topics: 1940s, California, Russian River, tourism, Guerneville, wildlife, hunting, road trip, play, humor,...
0697 PA8660 Amateur Film: Navy Initiation at Sea
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Viewing notes state: Boys fight Girl dances Girl with bike Grandparents 75th wedding anniversary Girl with baton and rides a tree trunk Girls put on a show Posing in a cemetery
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Topics: home movies, prelinger
Home movie: 098162: 1950s Naval air carrier in the Pacific
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Topics: 1950s, Naval air carrier, Pacific Ocean, Tokyo, city streets, brothel, UN helicopters, US naval...
Detailed documentation of the "World of Tomorrow" in beautiful Kodachrome.
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Topics: World's Fairs: New York, 1939-40, Amateur films
Home movie: 170006_001: 1930s Oregon tourism and Calexico
Topics: 1930s, Oregon, Crater Lake, chipmunk, Crooked River, dam construction, Calexico, schools, school...
Home movie: 010232_001: 1940s Illinois rural life and strike
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Topics: 1940s, Illinois, World War II, Caterpillar Tractor Protest, farm, rural life, parade, protest,...
Home movie: 170001_001: California agricultural life and landscapes with shipwreck
Topics: 1940s, California, delta, Bay Area, landscapes, farm family, rural life, agriculture, Sunol water...
Excellent amateur footage of Niagara Falls and scenes in Austin, Texas, including the Texas State Capitol building.
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Topics: Niagara Falls (Canada-U.S.), Water, Austin, Texas
Summary: Train trip through the Tehachapis, lots of train window POVs and rear-of-train receding track and tunnel POVs. Train travels through arid mountains, and saguaro and Joshua tree landscape, to Grand Canyon. Extensive footage of Grand Canyon itself. Last three minutes are Hopi Native Americans performing dances and ritual staged fights. All in full costume with full feathered headdresses and hawk wing costumes.
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Topics: home movies, grand canyon, trains, joshua tree
Home movie: 098169: 1960s Dominican Republic places, people and events
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Topics: 1960s, Dominican Republic, landscapes, city streets, civic parade, military parade, agricultural...
To come.
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Topics: home movies, prelinger
Detailed documentation of the "World of Tomorrow" in beautiful Kodachrome.
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Topics: World's Fairs: New York, 1939-40, Amateur films
Home movie: 170004_007: 1940s California family life and taxidermy room
Topics: 1940s, California, Alameda County family, babies, children, taxidermy room, taxidermy
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