1960-1965AFRICAN AMERICAN HOME MOVIES
African American Family Home Movies - 1960's
Note: alot of this footage has white tint or overexposed.
Note: alot of this footage has white tint or overexposed.
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Reel opens - African American Family Home Movies.
Black lines going through the film. |
| 01:00:01 1.52 |
Film clears up. WS of a strange looking pink stucco home with curved white trim around the garage door, front door and windows. Home has no lawn, just sidewalk separating it from the street. Some cars go by.
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| 01:00:04 4.01 |
cutaway. Shots from across street of a long three story building flanked by palm streets. Sign barely legible, may say "hotel de Anza".
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| 01:00:15 15.37 |
Signage for the 'Border Motel'. Pan across the one story motel, white vintage car parked in front of a room, in-ground swimming pool with a multi colored metal awning and a few scattered palm trees
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| 01:01:18 78.34 |
odd looking building with "Hotel Del Norte" and "Artificial Air conditioned" painted above the top floor right below the roof.. Below hotel sign in big letters, "Sans-Souci Nite Club" - this could be in Havana, Cuba(?)
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| 01:01:25 85.52 |
pan to the right of Sans Souci sign reveals large signs on top of neighboring building for the Green Cat Nite Club
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| 01:01:33 92.96 |
Pan across a one story retro motel and parking lot. only a few vintage cars are seen parked in front of the rooms.
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| 01:01:56 116.06 |
Footage has a white tint. Palm trees blowing in the wind lined up in a parking lot along a beachy area. Grey stone mountains in bkgd.
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| 01:01:59 118.86 |
Film has orange tint. Shots of a home with palm trees and mountains across the way from a beach. People walking along the shore, sunbathers and palm trees by the water, waves crashing to shore.
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| 01:02:31 151.59 |
footage has orange tint. Pan across a mountainous area, brown terrain, no trees.
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| 01:02:50 170.58 |
Cutaway to a Motel with large generic "motel" sign hanging vertically on a tall skinny frame structure. pan across the grounds, in-ground pool is seen and fan palms, mountains in bkgd.
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| 01:03:18 198.12 |
POV moving car along quite two lane desolate looking roadway cut through some mountains and brownish vegetation.
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| 01:03:53 232.74 |
Film gets very white. Footage is hardly visible. Film clears up a bit revealing a beach and beautiful ocean with people in the water and large boulders way out in the waters. A large white mansion sits on a cliff overlooking the water. a resort is seen in the distance.
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| 01:04:53 292.91 |
Pan from across the beach or bay reveals what looks like maybe a resort area along the coastline.
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| 01:05:11 311 |
Several minutes of overexposed unclear and jumpy footage.
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| 01:10:19 619.01 |
Footage a bit more clear. "Tequila Sauza" sign across building with arched entrances. Brightly colorful graffiti style painted walls beneath the arches. A So this could be Jalisco, Mexico where they tequila is made.
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| 01:10:54 654.47 |
White tinted footage again.
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| 01:11:37 697.58 |
Blank
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| 01:11:41 701.55 |
Footage has white tint and black lines, but appears to be a busy downtown with traffic, tall buildings, monuments, fountains, parks.
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| 01:13:33 813.64 |
White tint to footage.
Pan along the interior of an empty stadium, thousands of empty seats. This is most likely the Plaza de Toros, the world's larges bullring. Shots taken from afar, but barely seen is a couple of matadors practicing in the middle of the bullring. A bull in the middle of the stadium hardly seen. |
| 01:13:56 836.49 |
Exterior of most likely, the Plaza de Toros, front entrance with sculpture of a herd of bulls
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| 01:14:15 855.41 |
Footage has white tint and shaky.. POV moving vehicle - driving through downtown Mexico City most likely.
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| 01:14:31 870.83 |
Footage clears up. African American man and woman stand and pose for camera. Hard to tell where they are.
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| 01:15:22 922.39 |
More overexposed footage.
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| 01:17:13 1033.4 |
Pan across an oversized graffiti style painting above a building., most likely a theater. The writing across the building entrance and under the painting reads: Aurora Bautista La Zapatera Proogiosa - this is most likely a movie or production starring the Spanish film actress, Aurora Bautista.
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| 01:17:21 1040.9 |
Var shots of the iconic tower building, the Torre Insignia in Mexico City, built with a concrete frame.
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| 01:17:29 1048.98 |
POV moving car through downtown Mexico City. Shaky footage of some of the buildings old and new, traffic - vintage cars and busses through downtown, buildings built on hills and slopes, peds, historic buildings.
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| 01:18:37 1116.99 |
Var shots of an old historic building and people walking around on the plaza out front - this is most likely the Palicio de Bella Artes - Palace of Fine Arts.
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| 01:19:07 1146.85 |
A religious statue in a lush green garden setting, beautiful home on a hillside, other buildings on hills, lush green garden or park with some tropical plants. Folk walking up a long staircase and more shots around the grounds of the Palicio de Bella Artes
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| 01:19:25 1165.28 |
Blurry shaky wite tinted footage taken from fast moving vehicle. Looks like an area where there are ancient ruins or fort.
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| 01:21:11 1271 |
Ancient indian carvings on a rock hillside.
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| 01:21:17 1276.92 |
Cutaway. children playing and swimming around in the water. A fast moving speedboat headed toward camera., water skiiers can be seen.
Footage has black lines going through. |
| 01:21:54 1314.26 |
Clear footage, folk on a small cruise boat or ferry.
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| 01:22:07 1326.79 |
Var shots taken from a boat of the buildings along the coastline, many high rises that could be apartments or hotels.
Footage has green tint then white. |
| 01:23:14 1394.58 |
Blank
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| 01:23:16 1396.35 |
Shots of the mountainous landscape from a moving vehicle. Lush green mountains and valleys on a foggy day, drive by a farm with farm animals casually walking around.
Footage is shaky and black lines going through most of the shots. |
| 01:27:53 1673.67 |
Reel ends.
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