Ray Morris films of Southern California
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Scope and Contents
The Ray Morris films of Southern California consist of seven digital video files digitized from six reels of film depicting Southern California scenes recorded by Ray Morris. Ray Morris was a photographer for the Los Angeles Police Department. The films focus on various scenes and events in Southern California during the 1950s and 1960s, including Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty's New Year's message to the city in December 1961, the San Pedro Fisherman's Fiesta in 1957, a trolley car junkyard, and commercial fishing crews pulling into the Los Angeles Harbor. It is likely that most, if not all, of these films were made informally by Morris, rather than in an official capacity as photographer for the Los Angeles Police Department.
Dates
- Creation: 1950 - 1969
Creator
- Morris, Ray (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
All of the digital files in this collection are publicly accessible via the USC Digital Library. Each folder- and file-level record in this finding aid includes a link to the corresponding USC Digital Library asset. The USC Libraries do not have custody of the original analog films.
Conditions Governing Use
The copyright and related rights status of the moving images in this collection have been reviewed by the USC Libraries, but we are unable to make a conclusive determination as to the copyright status of the films. Please refer to USC Special Collections for more information. USC does not own or control any copyright rights with respect to the items in this collection. However, responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use each item.
Rights Statement for Archival Description
Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
Extent
1 Gigabytes (9 digital files stored in 2 digital folders)
Language of Materials
English
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Denise and Michael Doyen, August 31, 2023.
Existence and Location of Originals
The donors of the collection, Denise and Michael Doyen, digitized the moving images from their original analog format before donating the collection to the USC Libraries. The USC Libraries do not have custody of the original analog films.
Subject
- Morris, Ray -- Archives (Person)
- Yorty, Sam, 1909-1998 -- In motion pictures (Person)
- Port of Los Angeles -- In motion pictures (Organization)
Genre / Form
Geographic
- California, Southern -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Archival resources
- California, Southern -- Transportation -- Archival resources
- Los Angeles Harbor (Calif.) -- Archival resources
- San Pedro (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- History -- Archival resources
Topical
- Amateur films -- California, Southern -- 20th century -- Archival resources
- Fishers -- California, Southern -- 20th century -- Archival resources
- Fishing boats -- California, Southern -- 20th century -- Archival resources
- Motion pictures -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources
- Speeches, addresses, etc., American -- 20th century -- Archival resources
- Trolley cars -- California, Southern -- 20th century -- Archival resources
- Title
- Finding aid for the Ray Morris films of Southern California
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Bo Doub
- Date
- 2023 September
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the USC Libraries Special Collections Repository
Doheny Memorial Library 206
3550 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles California 90089-0189 United States
specol@usc.edu