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Date Created
1929/1931
Reel Format
16mm Kodacolor
Reel Description
This film reel contains footage of people and events in and around Richmond including:
- Title card National Film Preservation Foundation
- A farmyard with chickens, a large turkey, and ducks
- Two horses pulling a plowing cart with an individual driving it
- Panning footage of a river, potentially the James River, with buildings visible on the other shore
- An infant with left arm limb difference playing with a dog and in a swing outdoors
- Two young individuals in bathing suits and swim caps standing in a field
- Closeups of plants – hostas and flowers, appears to be a backyard garden
- An adult holding the infant with left arm limb difference in a fenced yard. A streetcar passes in the background
Runtime
00:04:30
Note
This uses Kodacolor film.
Personal Name Subject
Stilson, Harris, 1868-1934
Topical Subject
Gardens; Farms; Livestock; Plowing
City/Location
Richmond (Va.)
Genre
color films (visual works)
Local Genre
moving image
Type
Moving Image
Digital Format
video/mp4
Language
eng
Rights Statement URL
Rights
This material is in the public domain in the United States and thus is free of any copyright restriction. Acknowledgment of Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries and the Harry Stilson Richmond Collection as a source is requested.
Collection
Harris H. Stilson Films Richmond film collection, circa 1929-1931
Source
Harris H. Stilson Films Richmond film collection, circa 1929-1931, M 575, Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University.
File Name
m575_stilson_012.mp4