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Amateur films -- Archival resources

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Buckingham and Crawford family films

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 5219
Abstract

16mm films taken by John Crawford depicting a 1940 USC football game; Los Angeles Union Station and downtown; family outings to the South and San Francisco (including the 1940 Exposition); children and grandchildren iu Cheviot Hills, Los Angeles. The films have been digitized; DVD use copies are available in box 2.

Dates: 1930s-1950s

Russell M. Saunders film collection

 Collection
Identifier: 0323
Abstract The Russell M. Saunders film collection consists of slides, 16mm and 8mm films of performers at Muscle Beach in Santa Monica and other acrobatic, gymnastic and/or athletic acts in a variety of locations. Most of the films show men, women and children involved in acts such as adagio, acrobalance, acrobatics, teeterboard, ballet, trapeze, gymnastics, trampoline, uneven bars, rings, tightrope, ice skating, water skiing, tandem surfing, cannon jumping, Olympic diving and various other variety...
Dates: 1939 - 1980