The Florida Film
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Yellin, Samuel, 1885-1940
label: Collection Author
content: Davis, Myra Tolmach
label: Collection Photographer
content: Hofmeister, Richard
label: Collection Collector
content: National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Community Life
setName: label: See more items in
content: Samuel Yellin Collection
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content: Samuel Yellin Collection / Motion Picture Films
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (black-and-white, silent, print, 16mm; 175 feet; total run time: 00:04:46)
label: Extent
content: 1 Digital file
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1928
container: label: Container
content: Reel OF 254.2
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Moving Images [31983000023523]
label: Type
content: Film reels
label: Type
content: Digital files
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Shows examples of Yellin's first work as used in the Singing Tower, Mountain Lake, Florida.  Poor quality: grainy, overexposure and underexposure; no detail in white areas; poor contrast.  Intertitles as follows: 1. "Starting"; 2. "Finishing Up with a Wood Stick"; 3.  "The Result of Applied Craftsmanship"; 4.  "A Scroll in Iron"; 5.  "Examples of Samuel Yellin's Finest Work as Used in the Singing Tower [Bok Tower?], Mt. Lake, Florida".

OF 254.2 ("The Florida Film") was digitized in 2024. Digital reference copy in the Smithsonian Institution Digital Asset Management System (DAMS).