<I>The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash</I>
date: label: Date
content: 1991
name: label: Directed by
content: Michael Sporn, American, 1946 - 2014
label: Written by
content: Trinka Hakes Noble, American, born 1944
label: Owned by
content: D.C. Public Library, American, founded 1896
notes: label: Caption
content: This film was a part of the Washington D.C. Public Library's circulating 16mm film collection housed at the Martin Luther King Jr. Central Library. The collection is particularly noted for the wide variety of African American and African diaspora content.
label: Description
content: An animated film with the title The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash. It consists of a single reel of color 16mm polyester film with optical sound.
label: Description
content: The film is an adaptation of Trinka Hankes Noble's book with the same name and features a child telling their parent about a class trip to a farm. The film begins with a child reporting to their parent that the trip to the farm was "boring...kind of dull, until the cow started crying," to which the parent responds, " A cow, crying?" The rest of the film continues in this manner, where the child reports incidents that happened throughout the day and the parent responding until it’s revealed that Jimmy brought his pet boa constrictor to the farm.
place: label: Place used
content: Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Animated films
label: Topic
content: Film
setName: label: See more items in
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Collection title
content: DC Public Library Film Collection
label: Classification
content: Time-based Media - Moving Images
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Transferred from the DC Public Library
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2017.55.35.1a
objectType: label: Type
content: children's films
label: Type
content: sound films
label: Type
content: color films (visual works)
label: Type
content: short subjects
label: Type
content: 16mm (photographic film size)
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Restrictions likely apply. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: polyester film
label: Dimensions
content: Duration: 6 Minutes
label: Dimensions
content: Length (Film): 200 Feet