Stilson Film #3, Michigan, 1929
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Title on Reel (transcribed from original)

Homecoming Week 1929 - Nothing But Michigan Pictures

Date Created

1929

Reel Format

16mm

Reel Description

This film reel contains footage of people and events in and around Michigan including:

  • A river view
  • Street scenes with automobiles and buildings
  • An individual standing and walking outdoors
  • A train station
  • A large building surrounded by a park
  • Four individuals, including a child, standing in front of a house
  • A squirrel being fed by an individual and eating corn
  • Woods and buildings on either side of a river
  • Street scenes during an event, United States of America flags and banners hang on buildings and across the street. A sign on a building reads "Welcome Homecoming." Footage of individuals gathered on the sidewalks and sitting in automobiles, individuals performing on a trapeze in clown make up, musicians, children and adults playing in footraces, sack races, and bike races
  • Individuals standing outdoors on a farm with chickens, sheep and dogs, with a barn behind them
  • Individuals exiting a large tent
  • Children in colonial era costume performing dances in a field
  • Individuals exiting a large tent
  • Footage of a farm with a house, barns, automobiles
  • A gas station next to commercial buildings. One building has advertisements painted on the side for "King Edward Cigars" and "Red Top Malt Extract"
  • Footage of a building that appears to be a school
  • Footage of a church and residentials houses
  • Approximately 13 individuals, including children, standing and sitting in chairs outdoors with a residential house behind them. This appears to be a multigenerational family
  • Street scenes of commercial businesses and automobiles
  • A parade on a street filmed from above with individuals in uniform marching. Followed by a marching band, clown performer, automobile and flatbed truck floats (one labeled "Kroger," another with pigs on it has a banner which reads "We were born in KENTUCKY but only in [illegible] we live and grow fat," another with a sign "Roll Your Dollars Into Maynard & Allen State Bank", ), other marchers, animals, bicycles, strollers, covered wagons, fire engines with signs reading "PFD" and a year, and the crowds at the parade

Runtime

00:11:06

Personal Name Subject

Stilson, Harris, 1868-1934

Topical Subject

Parades; Children's costumes; Farms; Fire engines; Parade floats

City/Location

Michigan

Genre

black-and-white films (visual works)

Local Genre

moving image

Type

Moving Image

Digital Format

video/mov

Language

eng

Rights

This material is in the public domain in the United States and thus is free of any copyright restriction. Acknowledgement of Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries 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_003.mov

Stilson Film #3, Michigan, 1929

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