GSM Company Picnic Home Movie
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@ UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Description
Funding: Access to this film is generously supported by funding from the National Film Preservation Foundation.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.
Video
Color ; 16mm Kodachrome
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