- 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.




