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. 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_003.mov

Stilson Film #3, Michigan, 1929

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