- Title:
- H.C. Blankenship and John Scott home movie collection, circa 1936-1967<
- Creator:
- Wier, Joel A.
- Date of Original:
- 1936/1967
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, Bibb County, Macon, 32.84069, -83.6324
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
United States, Georgia, Wilkinson County, Gordon, 32.88209, -83.33238 - Type:
- Moving Image
- Description:
- The collection consists of footage of Gordon and Macon (including downtown scenes), Georgia, and families based in Gordon. There are also some early home movies of a kaolin mine's operation that were transferred from their original 16mm to VHS in the 1980s ; the Walter J. Brown Media Archive does not have the original 16mm film. Also included is footage of numerous beach vacation trips in Georgia and Florida, mountain trips, picnics, a trip to England and Scotland, scenes of Central of Georgia railroad trains and stations, a mobile x-ray clinic for tuberculosis, family pets (cat and dog), birthday parties, Zoo Atlanta, Willie B. II gorilla, petting zoos, parades (including centennial of the Civil War parade and a Halloween parade), the Gordon mines, Rock Eagle, Warner Robins, and miscellaneous family footage.
- Metadata URL:
- http://www.libs.uga.edu/media/collections/homemovies/blankenship.html
- Rights Holder:
- Dupree Blankenship home movie collection, 1937-1967. Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection, The University of Georgia Libraries.
- Holding Institution:
- Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection
