Guest family film: reel 1. Guest Farm

Creator

Guest Family

Identifier

mum00709_hm24_r01

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Description

Preparing farm to grow cotton, white man operating John Deere tractor on farm, white man posing next to John Deere tractor; African American man operating Farmwell tractor on farm, African American man on tractor smiling for camera; black and white men operating tractors on farm, overexposed light in camera, automobile, African American man operating Farmwell tractor, African American man laughing on tractor; panning shot of the farm; man posing on tractor for camera, white man operating tractor, automobile, man John Deere tractor; African American operating tractor, white man operating tractor while another sits on the back with buckets; young white boy filling buckets with cottonseed on the back of a pickup truck, bags of cottonseed, overexposed light, white man carrying buckets of cottonseed from pickup truck, boy and and white men dumping cottonseed into buckets loaded on back of tractor, boy sitting on tractor, shots of buckets filled with cottonseed; white man operating tractor with boy on the back; African American operating machine used for watering crops, shots of the wheel tracks in the field, man carrying cans from pickup truck and holds them up for the camera, African American man and white man prepare machine; shot of automobile driving; tractor parked next to large ammonia tank labeled Danger on farm; panning shot of African American filling tank with ammonia and body of Farmwell tractor, African American man starting up tractor, African American operating tractor; shot of plants in the dirt, shots of rows of plants in the dirt; panning shot of ammonia tank; man operating tractor with crops more grown; shot of two young white boys running; dozens of African American men and women working on farm, two African American women and young African American man working on farm; dark footage of panning shot showing young white boys sitting in the field, someone holding young white girl, tractor running in the background, and pickup truck is parked; three young white boys sitting in the field; dark footage of tractor being operated by African American man; cut to dark footage of house with two children waving at camera from the porch; panning shot of young white girl in kitchen next to oven and stove with young boy on the other side and a teenage boy standing next to him beside refrigerator; the start of the previous shot then cut to dark footage of farm at night, panning shot of two young children and teenager walking through field, shot of children teenager standing in field with dog; tractors with umbrellas overhead being operated in field, three young white boys driving John Deere tractor, teenage boy driving John Deere tractor pulling ammonia tank behind him with two young boys sitting on top of it while barefoot, three boys driving the John Deere tractor; overexposed light, bright footage of tractors, bright footage of man walking toward camera, bright footage of two men at tractor, bright footage of African American man on tractor; white man driving tractor

Subject Headings (Library of Congress)

Amateur films; Families; Cotton farmers; Cotton growing

Relational Format

video recording

Extent

0:15:17

Original Format

8mm (photographic film size)

Original Collection

Home Movie Collection (MUM00709), Archives and Special Collections, University of Mississippi Libraries.

Finding Aid

https://egrove.olemiss.edu/finding_aids/5

Rights

In Copyright; http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Comments

B-wind color reversal. Kodachrome stock with 1960 Kodak date code. Extensive perforation damage, especially in last approx 40 feet. Occasional jumpiness A few burnt frames. Heavy tramlines at right edge. 16 FPS.

A complete shot list is attached below as an additional file.