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Home movie: 098700: A 1955 wedding (1955)

1955 · Ephemeral film · 8 min

Synopsis

1955 wedding in a working-class Italian-American community, with church scenes, a reception in the church basement, and backyard barbecue sequences.

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Running time
8 minutes

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★★★★ · My dress screams "WEDDING CRASHER" · Spuzz · 2022-12-20

Home movie mainly situated around a wedding. We first see people before the wedding, this is likely, you know, a pre-wedding get together for people out of town, catching up sort of thing. I've done it, we've all done it. The next shots are of the wedding, and it's pretty great, lovely matching bridesmaids dresses and tuxes. Bride looks lovely. Traditional rice throwing seen. Next, the reception! And it's funny and interesting how CRAMPED everyone is in there. I'm guessing there might have been some sort of miscommunication about how large the party is, because everyone is PACKED in there.…

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