Maurice Sorrell Home Movie #2: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

2016.95.4.1a: 16mm film. This home movie begins with a medium wide shot of an amateur race track. Cars race by as one man can be seen holding a green flag. Out of the left hand corner, a man can be seen leaning over the fence to take a photo. Shots of two antique cars, that appear to date back to the early 1900s, slowly drive by. A man sits on a motocross bike and talks to a small group of onlookers who appear to be admiring his bike and asking questions. Shots of more races, with different types of race cars, follow.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1955-1975
• 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: Automobile racing
• Topic: Film
• Topic: Sports
• Topic: Transportation
• Object number: 2016.95.4.1a
• 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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