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Home Movie: 003786

Ephemeral film · 34 min

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Home movie footage of visits to New Orleans, Hawai'i, and other sites including a brief scene in Quartzsite, Arizona. notes on can: "Home Movies // Frank, O." // 16mm KC // 1954-1955 // 12-30-06 //

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34 minutes
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Prelinger Archives

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Louisiana sites · LBurris · 2026-01-02

Begins in the New Orleans French Quarter. Shots of an attractive woman walking by Dixie's Bar of Music. The streets are strangely deserted. Well-dressed man, then couple enters Jean Lafitte Blacksmith Shop Bar. More shots of French Quarter streets. Woman walks past the famous cornstalk fence. Shots of a Mardi Gras exhibit, then a courtyard meal featuring shrimp cocktail and colorful drinks. A tourist riverboat on the river. Shots of Arizona at a site associated with Jefferson Davis and his failed "Camel Regiment" experiment, begun in 1857. Back to New Orleans shots. More courtyard dining (a…

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