Home Movies: Florida 1941 (HOFF 062 1941Florida)

This home movie from the 1940s features a variety of activities and scenes. It begins with engraving on stone and cars parked outside a building. People can be seen enjoying a day on the beach and around palm trees, as well as a landscape of open land with trees and a golf course. People can be seen diving into a swimming pool from a high height and a man is seen holding an alligator’s mouth open. A pageant is seen, with ladies modelling swimsuits, and men marching in uniform. A variety of landscapes are seen, including an ocean landscape, a bay landscape, and buildings around waters edge.

Other activities and scenes featured in the home movie include a jockey riding a walking horse on a race track, flamingoes trotting in a large flock along a fence, synchronized swimmers making a star formation in a pavilion pool, a diver flipping from a diving board, a woman in a swimsuit parading along a poolside, a woman in a suit handing a woman in a bathing suit a jacket, a speaker at a microphone, a diver performing a flip off a diving board into a large outdoor pool, a woman in a skirt bikini walking up to a platform, a woman awarding a swimmer a trophy.

We digitized and uploaded this film from the A/V Geeks 16mm Archive. Email us at footage@avgeeks.com if you have questions about the footage and are interested in using it in your project.