Home Movies: "Oklahoma Kin" and Southwest (1958)
1958 · Ephemeral film · 16 min
Synopsis
Driving POVs in Southwest US, a little shaky A newish (1957 or 1958) vehicle parked outside the house bears California plates; presuming this roll was shot by visitors from California elder females on porch of small house; white working-class family hangs out in front of small house; fades to white; older folks in poor togs (man in coveralls) in dirt yard. Rural home shots: pigs, kids, man working on engine; big work truck Kids; milk cans; hound dog; kids in school yard, man on tractor. Mothers and kids in dirt and green yards and on roads, posing with children. Interior shots: family and kids on couch, at dinner table; Mom smokes at table; kids at piano, dressed up, posing with toys and on couch Elderly people; old man with bent hands, old woman in early-20th-century-style dress; on couch, uncomfortable with camera, shielding eyes Young adults mugging in kitchen Driving POVs of dirt roads; stopping at big, open-earth project; looks like installation of tanks for chemical fertilizer. Brief shot of oil well. Back indoors (poorly lit): intergenerational mugging at camera. Tractor plows yard in front of house. Roadside attraction; metal Brontosaurus.
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- Running time
- 16 minutes
- Collection
- Prelinger Archives
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★ · The new styles of 1958! · Spuzz · 2014-05-04
Pretty fun home movie featuring Olkies and what have you doing normal family things. The old people here look SERIOUSLY old, like frail. The ladies also wear hideous dresses, like omg, what is that? Plenty of shaky car scenery shots here too.