Created by
Sorrell, Maurice, American, 1914 - 1998
Date
ca. 1955
Medium
16mm Film (a): acetate film;
Dimensions
Duration: 1.5 Minutes
Film Length: 50 Feet
Caption
This 16mm film is from a collection of home movies shot by Maurice Sorrell between 1945 and 1975. The collection features travel footage, family outings, and gatherings with family and friends.
Description
Consists of: 16mm Film (a).
2016.95.7.1a: 16mm film. This home movie begins inside a home, where friends and/or family are socializing and drinking. Everyone is wearing a tiny sombrero on their head. A man holds a white card, reading “48”, over the head of a woman in a green dress. Another woman can be seen placing cooked hot dogs on the serving table. A man hands a drink to the woman in the green dress, and she turns her head to get away from the camera light. She, and others, can be seen dancing and bobbing their heads throughout the rest of the film.
Collection title
Maurice Sorrell Film Collection
Classification
Time-based Media - Moving Images
Type
motion pictures (information artifacts)
16mm (photographic film size)
Topic
Families
Film
Social life and customs
Travel
Credit Line
Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Bonita F. Bing & The Late Blanche Beatrice Sorrell
Object number
2016.95.7.1a
Restrictions & Rights
Unknown - Restrictions Possible
Rights assessment and proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
GUID
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/fd5771053d6-0e00-4cbc-a572-11212d40194b

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