Home Movie: Lloyd Royal Collection: 011063

About

A family in Mississippi celebrates their first Christmas in their new home in 1947 and documents it using a sound-on-film motion picture camera. Notable sequences include the grandmother receiving a clock radio, the mother a vacuum cleaner, and the two sons with a Whizzer motor bike and the controversial book, Little Black Sambo.

Lloyd Royal, maker of this film, operated a carnival in Meridian, Mississippi and several motion-picture theaters in the state. He also produced Mississippi-focused independent feature films.

Color film section has severe water damage.

Human-made No record of this work says a model made it. What this means.

Archive

Internet Archive, in Prelinger Archives

Licence or status

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Credit

Lloyd Royal

Language

English

Subtitles

English (automatic)

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