Maurice Sorrell Home Movie #4

Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

Consists of: 16mm Film (a). 2016.95.7.1a: 16mm film. This home movie begins inside a home, where friends and/or family are socializing and drinking. Everyone is wearing a tiny sombrero on their head. A man holds a white card, reading “48”, over the head of a woman in a green dress. Another woman can be seen placing cooked hot dogs on the serving table. A man hands a drink to the woman in the green dress, and she turns her head to get away from the camera light. She, and others, can be seen dancing and bobbing their heads throughout the rest of the film.

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