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Home Movie: 98954: Florida (1958)

1958 · Ephemeral film · 15 min

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Running time
15 minutes
Collection
Prelinger Archives

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★★★★ · Historically very interesing · Bud J · 2017-11-26

The first 2 and 1/2 minutes of this film is an historically interesting trip via a highway in the deep south, probably in South Georgia or Alabama, possibly even in North Florida. The film begins with several couples finishing dinner surveying what appears to be a map, planning a trip, cigarettes dangling. Next is highway footage showing homes along the way and then a stop showing a large concrete bridge over an unknown body of water. Some of the homes are shacks, others unpainted frame homes situated on concrete blocks. Some have severely rusting tin roofs. Women are walking along the…