Maurice Sorrell Home Movie #1: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

2016.95.3.1a: 16mm film. This home movie begins with a group of men socializing and drinking inside an unknown establishment. The men are wearing white boating outfits and white sailing caps. The camera switches to an exterior shot of that same establishment, where there are more men socializing outside. There is a slow pan (left to right) of a boat yard. One man can be seen on the deck of his boat, folding a tarp. A long shot down showing the length of the dock shows a few men, some in white sailing outfits and hats, walking towards to the camera.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1961-1962
• Created by: Maurice Sorrell, American, 1914 - 1998
• Type: motion pictures (information artifacts)
• Type: 16mm (photographic film size)
• Medium: 16mm Film (a): acetate film;
• Dimensions: Duration: 3 Minutes
• Dimensions: Film Length: 100 Feet
• Place filmed: United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Film
• Topic: Recreation
• Topic: Transportation
• Topic: Travel
• Object number: 2016.95.3.1a
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Bonita F. Bing & The Late Blanche Beatrice Sorrell
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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