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Home movie: 098670: Florida (1941)

1941 · Ephemeral film · 51 min

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A 51-minute reel of a wide-ranging road trip with extensive sequences of the built environment and the human cultural and social environments of 1941 Florida including rooftop views of Miami, poverty tourism, visiting an African-American school, a Pan Am air terminal, golf games, the Circus, home interiors, and several of the more typical tourist destinations.

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51 minutes

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★★★★★ · Lovely video, wish other reviewer would learn to spell · craftyrighty · 2026-04-27

Nice, love this when things were nice, clean and safe, you get me.......

★★★★ · HI WE'RE THE BLACK PEOPLE · Spuzz · 2022-12-23

So this is 51 minutes! Sure it's exhausting, and it just covers one state, but the film maker keeps the camera moving (smoothly, thank you), and the subjects change frequently, (but not rapid-fire to become distracting) that it maintains interest throughout, There's no real "highlights", everything is treated quite equally. Lots of golf though, some fun visits to tourist attractions (Disneyworld of course, wouldnt open for a number of years still) and some shots of interesting race relations. Why they went to a black school (I dont even know if it was that?) is beyond me... but they make…

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