[Home Movie: Dwight Core Collection, 1960s-1970s, Farm and nature scenes, Virginia and West Virginia]

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Synopsis

Home movie of farm scenes, cookout, swimming, train ride, nature and road trip scenes in West Virginia. Bird and kittens in Norfolk, Virginia.

Collection Description

This film (Core_2698) is part of the Dwight Core Collection.

The Dwight Core Collection consists of home movies and amateur films in color, black and white, and were shot by Dwight L. Core, Sr. There are some reels of his son Dwight Core, Jr. as a child, who was born in 1960 with Down Syndrome. Dwight Sr.’s film, ‘Think of Me First as a Person’, about his son, was added to the National Film Registry in 2006.

These home movies document the ‘ordinary’ life of a middle-class American family from the late 1940s through the early 1970s. The collection also includes various nature films (insects/ wildlife/ the life cycle of silkworms); the beachfront of Ocean View (Norfolk, Virginia) and Ocean View amusement park; graduations in the 1960s (high school, nursing school); family gatherings (1950s - 60s) in Norfolk - Christmas, Easter, birthday parties, cookouts; early years of grandparents and their children in Paxton, Illinois (1940s/50s); a road trip to West Virginia; a live performance (music, clowns, a poodle pushing a baby carriage) at a special needs camp that Dwight, Jr. attended; chickens being inoculated on the farm Core worked as a young man; a Naval Supply Center in Norfolk, Virginia where Core worked in a film lab. The films show relatives in Norfolk (Virginia), Paxton (Illinois), various parts of West Virginia and Lynchburg (Virginia), where there was a facility for special needs children where my Dwight, Jr. lived. The collection also includes four ‘murder mysteries’ (not included online) shot in the late 1940s/early 1950s, based on Sam Spade and Edgar Allan Poe stories.

This collection was conserved and digitally captured through the 2017 and 2020 Al Larvick Nation Grant awarded to George Ingmire by the Al Larvick Conservation Fund in partnership with its lab partner Pro8mm.

For more information about this collection, visit:

https://www.allarvickfund.org/dwight-core-collection

The mission of the Al Larvick Conservation Fund is to preserve historical and cultural heritage through conservation, education, and the public accessibility of American analog home movie, amateur cinema and community recording collections. For more information, visit allarvickfund.org.

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Specifications:

Archive

Internet Archive, in Home movies

Licence or status

CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, as the Internet Archive states it.

Credit

Dwight Core

Who can watch

The archive gives no rating. Invisible Network shows it to Tweens profiles and older, judged from its collection and subjects. How films are placed