Summary

YOUR HERITAGE AT OL' MISS

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Title: YOUR HERITAGE AT OL' MISS
File Number: DN-SLB-017 Beta SP
Color: Color
Type: Documentary
Year: 01/01/1950
Description: Color 1950s Promotional film on the 1950s University of Mississippi The signposts of Southern Culture are in full effect on the grounds of this pre-James Meredith, all-white school Most of the footage can read either as college or high school Good 1950s lifestyles film - college life, work study, laboratory, sexism , racism etc - but strange scratch damage at various points 00:02:15:00 Color 1950s New college student Freshman man tries on school clothes with University emblems at the college store, looks in mirror proudly, etc VS 00:03:26:00 Color 1950s Students with lunch trays wait on line to be served at college cafeteria students eat at cafeteria tables [could also read as high school cafeteria] 00:03:49:00 Color 1950s Black cooks restaurant workers cooking and preparing food in cafeteria kitchen of college [or high school] 00:04:42:00 Color 1950s Doctor takes woman's blood pressure in examination room doctor takes X-ray photograph of woman lying on examination table 00:06:08:00 Color 1950s College student women in home economics classes: group of women friends sits on couch in living room cooking class in classroom designed to look like a kitchen, two students wearing white uniforms serve meal they've prepared to two tester students at table who eat it, smiles all around in hostess class, women serve tea, others drink tea and talk women sew in sewing class women weave with cumbersome loom and distaff women observe children in nursery school classroom through observation window, their faces reflected in the glass nursery school children playing in classroom 00:08:29:00 Color 1950s Secretary woman sits at desk typing while wearing dictaphone headphones CU hands typing on typewriter keys 00:08:44:00 Color 1950s CU hands typing on 1950s business machine adding machine 00:08:48:00 Color 1950s Woman turns lever of mimeograph machine 00:09:08:00 Color 1950s College students in study room write at desks, man in FG typing 00:09:24:00 Color 1950s Science professor biology professor handles anatomical model prop in front of his students in classroom 00:09:33:00 Color 1950s Teacher stands over student's desk, window in BG reveals another classroom on other side [high school or college] 00:09:50:00 Color 1950s Scientists wearing white lab coats in laboratory, one of them writes on blackboard in BG 00:10:21:00 Color 1950s Mock trial in law school class, poor shot 00:10:50:00 Color 1950s Men stand around and talk in lounge room 00:11:10:00 Color 1950s Science students perform experiments in laboratory, VS at 0:11:47, students wearing white lab coats in laboratory with many rows of bottles and vials, good shot [High school or college] 00:11:37:00 Color 1950s Astronomer looks through telescope in observatory Poor shot, especially since it's the daytime 00:12:08:00 Color 1950s Men in motorboat on lake take water samples, VS 00:12:43:00 Color 1950s Smiling woman admires her own jewelry CU her brooch CU her earring 00:13:10:00 Color 1950s CU shots of the faces of two Classical Greek sculptures, one male and one female 00:13:37:00 Color 1950s A white mouse runs through maze as man watches and takes notes [animal experiment] 00:14:03:00 Color 1950s ROTC men and color guard march on field 00:15:16:00 Color 1950s Woman model wearing a tutu poses for an art class, students paint her as teacher examines their work 00:15:37:00 Color 1950s Man and woman play pianos, right next to each other Good shot, musical duo 00:15:58:00 Color 1950s College women wearing formal party dresses talk and laugh outside their sorority house, VS 00:16:24:00 Color 1950s EXT of a fraternity house, poor shot 00:16:29:00 Color 1950s EXT men's college dormitories, men walking down sidewalk in FG INT dorm room, men sit around and talk two roommates studying men walk down hallway etc 00:17:07:00 Color 1950s INT women's college dormitory or sorority house: women sit around on floor and have meeting women sit on couch together and drink sodas women wearing their nightgowns sit around and talk about boys, (sync-sound southern accents) this is sexist one of them removes towel from her head, looks in mirror, and brushes her hair suddenly she is all made up and wearing evening gown, ready to go out, and winks at CAM 00:18:37:00 Color 1950s Row of swimmers, both men and women, stands on edge of swimming pool and one by one they dive in, like falling dominoes Good shot 00:18:43:00 Color 1950s Swimmers in swimming pool 00:18:56:00 Color 1950s College sports montage: baseball players warm-up basketball players jogging golfer takes a swing a Ping-Pong game 00:19:40:00 Color 1950s Black maid stands behind couch where two young white women listen to young white man talk Racist image 00:20:13:00 Color 1950s People run around big bonfire, brief shot 00:20:26:00 Color 1950s College football game: marching band on field kickoff plays from the football game including a handoff for a touchdown 00:21:46:00 Color 1950s Church minister reads service from the altar JMR
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