Reel opens Africa-American Home Movies

In the kitchen with happy well-dressed African American housewives showing off fancy aprons and cooking up a storm. Giant pots of food on the stove.

Happy family gathered in the living room by the Christmas tree. Young boy walking toward camera holding hands out. Sofa and easy chairs covered in plastic, a common denominator of 1960's family life.

Young African American boy hamming it up in front of the Christmas tree for the camera.

Woman dancing holding plate of food, lots of activity in the dining room. Men joining. Table full of prepared food dishes. Food keeps coming from kitchen, non stop. Lots of action in the dining room.

Back in the dining room. The women still setting out the food. Table full of fruit and bottles. Turkey setting up just right on dining room table. Woman showing off tray of food, girl in bright yellow dress dancing around. People hugging, kids posing for the camera. Everyone aware of camera.

Cutaway from African American Family Christmas dinner. Well dressed African American woman in bright orange suit at front door of home, looking through her handbag for keys. Giving up she walks over to a beautiful red vintage automobile parked in driveway.

Home movie of traffic on the old Las Vegas strip - Fremont Street (POV moving car), Frontier Hotel sign can be seen. vintage autos in traffic. Shaky home camera z'in on
the Stardust, Frontier Hotel with Jimmy Durante and Vic Damone on the billboard, peds walking about, Large S on top of hotel.

Car driving down highway in the desert. Black car parked on side of road. Home movies of THE desert terrain.

Same black car parked on side of road next to New Mexico sign.

Z'in large sign on desert roadway reads, "Odessa Texas / Dallas Texas. Mid-Continent, Inc. Truck Stops "

Sign - "Mississippi Welcomes You" and z'in (a bit blurry) on smaller green sign in the shape of Mississippi, "The Magnolia State"

Z'in (to blurry) Highway signs from moving car - "Entering Georgia", smaller sign next to it for Lake Eufaula

Z'in from car window on billboard - a big smiling orange on a Florida Turnpike sign.

Z'in on old Florida motel sign. "Palm Dale Motor Lodge" We Are Not Expensive Heat. Vacancy. Pool. Large unlit neon arrow pointing toward motel.

z'in on large coconut tree.

West Palm Beach Marina signage. Boats docked in marina. large hotel across the harbor.

Capri Motel sign, gas sign below it- .28 a gal regular. Pan Capri Motel, vacancy sig. Cool red and white vintage car parked outside motel room, African American lady on 2nd floor balcony looking out.

Very happy looking and well dressed African American women outdoors, posing, dancing, moving about for the camera.

Boy jumping into motel swimming pool. Women moving lounge chair. Kids diving in, girls swimming around pool wearing latex swim caps. Older folks on lounge chairs enjoying themselves poolside, practicing dance steps in their bathing suits