Synopsis
A visit (by an LA family) to family members in different southwest locations: Latinx, Mexican-American family members in Texas, other family in mountain west; Los Angeles beaches and swimsuit culture, 1950s.
Synopsis, reviewed
Details
- Running time
- 7 minutes
- Collection
- Prelinger Archives
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- 1950s
- road trip
- desert southwest
- Texas
- Mexican American
- Latino
- Latinx
- integrated family
- Los Angeles
- beach
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★ · People Need People · Spuzz · 2023-02-20
A series of shots with a whole bunch of people. Hard to guess who is the home family in this. The first few shots are of a lot of people congregating, and I was making a comment to myself, that these were a good looking bunch of people. Nice dress, good hair, etc. They seemed friendly enough. We get a bizarre technical snafu with the film as the next shot has a couple, only half of the couple is visible as the other is blocked. Weird. We're back to people shots after that though, The camera then goes inside, and we see people there too! A guy has a newspaper. A Dutch Village is annexed, so…
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