<I>Maurice Sorrell Home Movie #4</I>
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1955
name: label: Created by
content: Maurice Sorrell, American, 1914 - 1998
notes: label: Caption
content: This 16mm film is from a collection of home movies shot by Maurice Sorrell between 1945 and 1975. The collection features travel footage, family outings, and gatherings with family and friends.
label: Description
content: Consists of: 16mm Film (a).
label: Description
content: 2016.95.7.1a: 16mm film. This home movie begins inside a home, where friends and/or family are socializing and drinking. Everyone is wearing a tiny sombrero on their head. A man holds a white card, reading “48”, over the head of a woman in a green dress. Another woman can be seen placing cooked hot dogs on the serving table. A man hands a drink to the woman in the green dress, and she turns her head to get away from the camera light. She, and others, can be seen dancing and bobbing their heads throughout the rest of the film.
title: label: Title
content: 16mm motion picture film of Maurice Sorrell Home Movie #4
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Families
label: Topic
content: Film
label: Topic
content: Social life and customs
label: Topic
content: Travel
setName: label: See more items in
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Collection title
content: Maurice Sorrell 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, Gift of Bonita F. Bing & The Late Blanche Beatrice Sorrell
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2016.95.7.1a
objectType: label: Type
content: motion pictures (information artifacts)
label: Type
content: 16mm (photographic film size)
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Unknown - Restrictions Possible
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Rights assessment and proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: 16mm Film (a): acetate film;
label: Dimensions
content: Duration: 1.5 Minutes
label: Dimensions
content: Film Length: 50 Feet