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Identifier	MSS0292-10pt1
Title	Orris D. Brown Film Collection, Reel 10, part 1
Alternate Title	Highway Scenes In Route to New Orleans
Creator	Brown, Orris D.
Description	Highway Scenes: View from a car windshield of a tree-lined two-lane highway with an occasional car visible. -- Lake Charles: Footage of metal bridge trusses, rural roads, and a view of the lake from the road. A hayfield and two men loading haycocks onto a truck. -- St. John’s Cathedral: Street-level view of St. John’s Cathedral in Lafayette, Louisiana. -- New Iberia: Footage taken from the street of other cars, old trees, plantation-style houses, and farmland. -- Sugar Cane Harvesting: Footage of a trailer slowly driving through a field while men pile sugarcane on the back; a pair of mules pulling a plow; a field hand hacking at some of the remaining cane. at the edge of a canebrake, men cut down stalks. -- Mississippi River at New Orleans: Rooftop view of the Mississippi River and surrounding buildings in New Orleans. -- French Quarter: Street-level footage of daily life, including a painting group gathered on a sidewalk, cars passing, shops, and buildings. -- Statue: Footage of the St. Louis Cathedral from across Jackson Square and the statue of Andrew Jackson. -- Scenes of Architecture: Footage of various buildings around the city from sidewalk and balcony views. -- Downtown New Orleans: Street level view of New Orleans skyscrapers and traffic, with shots looking down both Chartres and Royal Streets. -- Ferry to Algiers: Footage of people boarding the ferry to the neighborhood of Algiers with scenes of the city skyline as seen from the ferry.
Date Created	1938
Description of Original	For reel 10, parts 1 and 2, approximately 375 ft of black and white 16 mm. and 50 ft of color 16mm. ; reel-to-reel ; Kodak Safety Film on a 7" reel.
Subject Keywords	French Quarter (New Orleans, La.)
Subject Terms	Lake Charles (La.) ; Lafayette (La.) ; St. John's Cathedral (Lafayette, La.) ; New Iberia (La.) ; Sugarcane--Harvesting ; Mississippi River ; Vieux Carré (New Orleans, La.) ; St. Louis Cathedral (New Orleans, La.) ; Jackson Square (New Orleans, La.) ; Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845--Miscellanea ; Architecture--Louisiana--New Orleans ; Ferries ; New Orleans (La.)
Type	MovingImage
Language	English
Geographic Subject Terms	Lake Charles (La.) ; Lafayette (La.) ; New Iberia (La.) ; New Orleans (La.)
Coverage-Temporal	1930s
Publisher	Electronic version published by Houston Public Library, Houston, Texas
Collection	MSS0292 Orris D. Brown Film Collection
HPL Location	MSS0292 Orris D. Brown Film Collection, Houston Metropolitan Research Center Archives
Related Resources	Please see a continuation of this reel at MSS0292-10pt2
Contributing Institution	Texas Archive of the Moving Image available at: http://www.texasarchive.org/
Funding provided by	TexTreasures Grant
Duration	09:51
Date Digital	2012
Format	flv ; 21.8MB ; 29 frames/second ; sound and no sound ; black and white ; 4 : 3 aspect ratio
Rights	Please contact the Houston Metropolitan Research Center, Houston, Texas.
Digitization Specifications	avi ; 2.00GB ; 29 frames/second ; optical soundtracks, captured

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