1970-1979AFRICAN AMERICAN HOME MOVIES
African American Home Movies, Trip to Aruba
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Reel opens - African American Home Movies
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Scratchy footage, black lines and fading film.
Pan a coastal area harbor. Boats and ships docked. Tilt down on two busses in large parking lot. |
| 01:00:10 10.77 |
Cutaway to downtown Aruba, cars parked, peds and traffic. Large banner going across the street "Aruba Salutes America", an American flag hanging from a building.
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| 01:00:29 29.01 |
Pan grounds of hotel or resort - alm trees, African American couple sitting on deck chairs, in-ground pool.
Camera moves quickly, blurry footage. |
| 01:00:38 38.68 |
Camera still moving very quickly - pan along beachfront area, outdoor bar and palm trees along the shore, people sunbathing and going in the crystal clear water
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| 01:01:16 76.6 |
WS hi-rise hotels along the beach, palm trees, people sunbathing
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| 01:04:39 279.6 |
Folk at a Tram station. POV moving tram ride. Shots of the hillside (most likely still in Aruba), some rundown shacks
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| 01:04:50 290.72 |
Var shots large red Tram with people on it moving along in the fog heading toward camera. POV from another tram. Blurry Shots of the city taken from the tram ride.
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| 01:05:33 333.95 |
Cutaway to scenes at the beach. People walking along the shore, beach chairs, sunbathers.
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| 01:06:43 403.75 |
Pan along busy harbor, var ships and boats docked, mountains in bkgd. Foggy
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| 01:06:58 418.88 |
Cutaway - vacationers on a small cruise ship, bumper to bumper beach chairs lined up, people sunbathing on the boat, man taking photos from the top deck.
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| 01:07:21 441.71 |
An exercise class on deck - large group of folk doing exercises twisting at the waist, touching their toes, following the instructor.
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| 01:07:43 463.65 |
People swimming in the on-deck built-in pool, diving right in. Var shots around the pool area.
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| 01:08:12 492.79 |
Shots of the shoreline POV cruise boat, skyline, harbor area, var buildings.
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| 01:09:50 590.3 |
Live band performing on the ship.
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| 01:10:16 616.9 |
Ext. Holiday Inn, sign on hotel and Restaurant sign.
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| 01:10:24 624.36 |
Blurry shots of the city (possible Curacao) and town POV moving vehicle or top of tall building.
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| 01:11:22 682.92 |
large white letters on the top of a red tile roof reading "Kroonval (Curacao N.V.)
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| 01:11:31 691.28 |
Shots of a large ship docked. Blurry or foggy shots of mountain landscape against large body of water.
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| 01:13:02 782.84 |
People disembarking cruise boat. then cutaway to shaky handheld camera shots of the village, "Continental Trading" building, cars parked, shoppers at market.
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| 01:13:26 806.46 |
Various shots of a Cathedral in the town. Beautiful architectural detail. Pan to top spires and down to parking lot, VW bus parked.
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| 01:13:58 838.94 |
Various shots, sightseeing around the village, cars parked head in, traffic, peds, palm trees. Woman carrying basket on her head, man
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| 01:14:39 879.03 |
Woman carrying basket on her head crossing street, large Coca Cola sign in bkgd., man walking down the streert with a donkey carrying goods on its back.
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| 01:15:10 910.74 |
Two women sitting on a curb looks like they're holding maybe feeding their babies.
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| 01:15:58 958.44 |
Boats docked in harbor, pan coast line from boat or harbor.
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| 01:16:56 1016.69 |
Shots of another old cathedral, blurry illegible close up of an inscription on stone
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| 01:17:56 1076.17 |
POV high point overlooking buildings dotting the landscape, walter in bkgd. Not sure where this is.
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End Reel.
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