Home Movie: Calvin M. Kershner Collection: 010037

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Content advisory: Moving images may contain offensive, outdated and even harmful content. This 1928 film holds multiple instances including uninvited photography of Black labor, Black poverty, offensive terminology in intertitles, and carceral labor. Viewers are advised.

Calvin Kershner takes a road trip across the United States with friends, driving a Buick car in 1928. In this reel he visits the Atlantic City Boardwalk and Washington D.C. and Virginia area monuments before traveling through Southern states during the Jim Crow Era where he engages in uninvited photography of people engaged in everyday activities. This reel, one in a series, concludes at Lake Pontchartrain.

Title: One Beautiful Wandering - From the Atlantic to the Pacific and Mexico to Canada in a Buick

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

Calvin Myles Kershner

Language

English

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