Home Movies: African American Family, Detroit (1960)
1960 · Ephemeral film · 10 min
Synopsis
Home movies of an African American family in Detroit, dressed for a formal occasion and posing on the steps of a brick house. Also shows the Statue of Liberty, the Belle Isle Conservatory, a snowy river view toward Windsor, Ontario, and boats passing under the Ambassador Bridge.
Synopsis, reviewed
Details
- Running time
- 10 minutes
- Collection
- Prelinger Archives
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · Much to see · smacdon2012 · 2014-12-05
I wonder sometimes about reviews on this site. For this "home movie" I even wonder about the label "African American Family." If you watch this film closely, you will notice this is an integrated family. There is an older caucasian woman at the beginning, and what might be her husband and maybe a daughter. In other words, this is an American family. The placement of "African" sets the family into a nice American racial category, but the people in these clips might just as well be tagged as "Americans in Detroit and New York." Also, although this is not a "professional" film, the filmmaker…