Moving Image / Company Picnic Films, 22nd Anniversary Val Verde Park

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Title: Company Picnic Films, 22nd Anniversary Val Verde Park
Date Created and/or Issued: 1947
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company records
Rights Information: Copyrighted
Property rights to the physical object belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. Literary rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
Rights Holder and Contact: University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections
spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
Description: Scope/Content: One of only two surviving examples in the collection of an annual outdoor event held for staffers and their families, celebrating the 1925 founding of the Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company. The films are significant because they show local recreation sites frequented by African Americans during segregation. Over the years Golden State Mutual picnics were held at Val Verde (known as the “Black Palm Springs”), Santa Monica Beach between Bay and Bicknel streets (colloquially referred to as “The Ink Spot” or “Ink Well Beach”), Cabrillo Beach and Lake Elsinore. This footage was shot near Val Verde.
Funding: Access to this film is generously supported by funding from the National Film Preservation Foundation.
Type: moving image
Format: color and black and white ; 16mm Kodachrome
Form/Genre: Amateur films
Extent: Reel 1 of 1 (14 mins., 19 sec.) : mos
Identifier: yrlsc1434_104_02_H264
Language: English
eng
Relation: Audiovisual materials. 1947-1950, 1954, 1957-1958, 1961-1962, 1964, 1966, 1966-1969, 1971-1975, 1977-1978, 1981, 1987, 1999-2007, undated.
Location: Box 104, Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company records (Collection 1434). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

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