Lott family film: reel 5. Spring and Easter, Little House, 1953

Creator

Lott Family

Identifier

mum00709_hm54_r05

Creation Date

1953

Disclaimer

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Description

Family together in yard, two African American women walking together; African American woman with two white children; Assorted family members outside house and in yard; White man on roof, black man on ladder, white woman on the ground; Children dressed up with Easter baskets; Leader; Family posing together on the steps; More family members leaving; Methodist Church getting out; Road and old bridge; Leader; Boarding airplane, plane taking off from small airport; Old man at site with automobile; Woman and children with bathing suits playing in the sand and in the water, shots of the river; Small wooden houses, two women walking toward camera; Memphis Zoo, brown bears, monkeys, and train ride, hippopotamus, jaguar, lion, peacock, giraffe; Family at the beach, playing in the water and in the sand, applying sunscreen; Leader; Scenes from the beach, children with floats; Children on mechanical pony ride in front of a diner; Family in yard pushing baby, walking toward camera; Shots of the sky; Children with toys and dogs; Family posing together outside; Children dressed with baskets; African American maid; Boy playing with bricks; Children, birthday cake and party, lots of kids playing games and swinging, boy crying; Blank Film; Young boys and girls in suits and dresses walking together, young children dressed in wedding clothes walking down an aisle, child minister at the altar, children leave together; Blank Film; Children together in the living room; Father and daughter in the living room by the fireplace and piano; Boy chanting and circling the room like a Native American warrior; Boy playing baseball, African American woman posing with the boy; Trucks carrying cotton bales, Shots of farm, automobiles, African American men on site; Dark Film; Men crowded in front of store, Swifts sign, and Coca-Cola vending machine; Bales of cotton loaded on trucks, African American men, Murray Gins sign; Children in front of fireplace with stockings hung for Christmas, Christmas tree and presents; Children finding presents on Christmas morning

Subject Headings (Library of Congress)

Amateur films; Families; Cotton growing; Zoo animals; Christmas -- Mississippi

Relational Format

video recording

Extent

0:22:26

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. Possible 1949 Kodak date code.

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