1960-1969AFRICAN AMERICAN HOME MOVIES
African American Family Home Movies - Christmas
Christmas house parties early 1960's
Christmas house parties early 1960's
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Reel opens - African American Family Home Movies - Christmastime.
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| 01:00:03 3.16 |
Older African American man and woman sitting in very nicely furnished formal living room. Man seated in traditional chair and woman on formal style couch covered in plastic - this was quite the norm in those days. They smile for camera.
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| 01:00:17 17.15 |
Pan around the room, folk enjoying themselves, talking, laughing, having drinks, dancing! Hamming it up for the camera.
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| 01:01:17 77.25 |
People in dining room having dinner (and conversation).
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| 01:01:37 97.43 |
Cutaway to pan of living room. Pillows on sofa, wrapped Christmas gifts on couch, a dining table set for holiday dinner with candles and Christmas plates.
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| 01:01:59 119.45 |
Continuing pan around the room, some ladies seated, housewife in kitchen wearing an apron, well dressed men and women, people helping themselves to snacks and hors d'oeuvres on coffee table.
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| 01:02:56 176.82 |
Var folk arriving, entering room, women wearing nice dresses, smiling, holding drinks.
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| 01:03:33 213.22 |
Bar cart with lots of liquor bottles, ice bucket, and stuffed Santa on bottom. Folk helping themselves to drinks.
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| 01:04:42 282.16 |
Lovely woman smiling, sitting at card table wrapping Christmas presents. Buffet table in corner with Christmas decorations.
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| 01:05:18 318.73 |
Housewives in the kitchen preparing the food.
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| 01:05:32 332.77 |
Two well dressed older women admiring decorated Christmas tree
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| 01:05:42 342.43 |
The men sitting around in the living room having drinks and snacks.
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| 01:06:01 361.3 |
Woman opening a bottle of champagne.
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| 01:06:17 377.07 |
Var shots around the room, wrapped Christmas gifts on the couch, folk mingling having snacks and drinks, Christmas decorations, buffet table full of food, people holding large plates of food, eating in var spots around the room.
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| 01:06:34 394.63 |
Group of quite healthy looking well dressed ladies sitting close to each other and having drinks, food and conversation.
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| 01:06:46 406.34 |
Gentleman wearing a suit and tie entering the room, smiling for camera and shaking hands with unseen person.
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| 01:06:51 411.15 |
Two ladies looking fine and admiring the Christmas decorations
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| 01:07:00 420.04 |
Food and snacks in crystal bowls on a table in the foreground, lady dancing "shaking her booty" and "gettin' down" in bkgd., her seated lady friends laughing and smiling.
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| 01:07:09 429.46 |
More nicely dressed lady guests entering the room drinks in hand. They say hello and shake hands with other folk.
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| 01:07:45 464.99 |
People at the party in the living room standing, smiling at the camera and waving envelopes their holding in their hands
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| 01:07:53 473.6 |
Table set with paper Christmas plates, napkins, utensils and big trays of food.
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| 01:08:10 490.77 |
Housewives in the kitchen wearing aprons, holding the same white envelopes and also getting the food out on the buffet table.
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| 01:08:19 499.22 |
Time to eat! Shots of happy people walking around the room holding big plates of food, and sitting at the dining table eating, helping themselves to food from the buffet table.
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| 01:11:02 662.04 |
Folk dancing in the living room, Christmas tree can be seen in the bkgd., woman sitting on the couch next to a toy Santa Claus, her arms stretched out
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| 01:11:32 692.72 |
Cutaway to housewife (different home than before) at the stove in the kitchen. Looks like she's putting dough in a cast iron frying pan and making the biscuits. She turns and spreads her arms smiling for the camera.
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| 01:11:48 708.33 |
Big fancy fish tank in living room, and pan into the nice white '60's style kitchen, woman pointing out things, pretty wallpaper and houseplants.
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| 01:11:50 710.35 |
Pan around rest of the mid-century, early '60's decorated home into the living room and dining room - big fancy mid-century style lamp, Santa face hanging in doorway, man standing near large china cabinet waving to camera, hanging houseplants (a trend in the early '60's), dining table with Christmas tablecloth and centerpiece, large crystal chandelier.
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| 01:13:00 780.64 |
More early 1960's furnishings and details in home - bar cart, another big fancy lamp, small decorated table top Christmas Tree. African American woman in fur coat waving and smiling for camera. Camera continues to pan around the room, large gold framed painting on the wall flanked by sconces, var Christmas decorations.
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| 01:15:02 902.54 |
Console style TV set
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| 01:15:07 907.97 |
White leather or vinyl barrel chair, more hanging plants and crazy large lamps, huge mural on the wall and Christmas decorations. Raggedy Annie stuffed toy on couch.
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| 01:15:51 951.07 |
Classic mid-centurty style starburst clock hanging on wood paneled wall. Shiny orange vinyl easy chair. A very ornate, gaudy, gold shell design headboard.
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| 01:16:58 1018.49 |
Very nicely dressed older African American folk seated in fancy living room, man smoking giant cigar. Some folk having dinner at the Christmas dining table.
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| 01:18:17 1097.31 |
Pan around the room and many folk having dinner seated at individual folding TV tray tables.
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| 01:19:03 1143.24 |
Housewives in the kitchen doing the dishes.
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| 01:19:21 1161.03 |
African American housewife showing off her fancy china cabinet.
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| 01:19:55 1195.34 |
Small fake white decorated Christmas tree on a stand draped in white cloth, with wrapped Christmas presents on the floor underneath.
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| 01:20:38 1237.99 |
In the kitchen, woman talking on yellow wall phone with long cord.
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| 01:21:35 1295.19 |
Cutaway to green Christmas tree, this one might be real, with tinsel and other decorations. Wrapped gifts under the tree. Pan up to top of tree revealing a giant silver star.
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| 01:21:54 1314.02 |
Dining room table set for Christmas dinner with candles and Christmas centerpiece.
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| 01:22:20 1340.29 |
People arriving, at front door, lots of kissing and hugging.
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| 01:23:27 1407.29 |
Housewife in the kitchen taking food out of oven. Other ladies helping out, carving the roast, showing off beautiful platter of food.
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| 01:24:06 1446.41 |
Folk helping themselves to plates of food, mostly ladies, where's the men?
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| 01:24:49 1489.59 |
Ext shots pan suburban ranch home with Christmas decorations. Santa Claus and his reindeer on the roof. Woman and man standing out front pointing out what looks like a mini manger (decoration).
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| 01:26:08 1568.09 |
CU on mini Christmas manger display with nativity scene inside, on porch of home.
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| 01:26:30 1590.84 |
Int folk standing near decorated Christmas tree in living room of home. Cosole TV set with family photos on top, lots of opened Christmas gifts on the floor, plates of food on coffee table.
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| 01:27:12 1632.1 |
Folks enjoying Christmas dinner at dining table, they smile and wave at camera..
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| 01:28:06 1686.67 |
End Reel - African American Family Home Movies - early 1960's Christmas
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