Production number 10
Production title: [1951 Homecoming]
Black and white / no sound
Total running time: 22 minutes
There is no information regarding the production of the film.
Derived from 16 mm film.
Available in VHS, DVD, and Sony DV-cam.
The film documents homecoming activites and events in 1951. The HC slogan was "Renew Old Fun in '51". There is footage of the homecoming parade, the Florida Blue Key Banquet, Gator Growl, Swimcapades, and the football game. A shorter version of this film appears as production number 42.
Contents
0:00 Two female baton twirlers doing a routine with the special effect of fireworks around them.
0:47 A group of people leaving Tigert Hall. Among them is J. Hillis Miller, president of the University of Florida.
1:05 Homecoming parade
Cars with their occupants
Dean Marna Brady watching the cars
J. Hillis Miller and others in a car
Band
Man carrying a small live alligator
Spectators
Floats
Review stand with dignitaries
Floats
Men in uniforms
J.J. Finley students
Kirby Smith students
Floats
Phi Gamma Delta fraternity members do tricks on bicycles
Car with men dressed in officer uniforms
Float
Band
Honor Guard
A barrel with a young woman beside it - "a barrel of money to fight cancer"
Review stand with dignitaries
Announcer with microphone
Floats
Parade onlookers
Floats
Cars
People disperse from the review stand and sidewalk below the stand
6:35 Women on a float with a sign, "we hit a tree"
6:39 Women in front of a sorority house sawing and putting up large boards in front of the house
Men place a sign on a constructed decoration, "under Fuller Warren governor"
Views of house decorations
8:30 Florida Blue Key Banquet - Florida Gym
Guest speaker General Carl Raymond Gray, head of Veterans' Affairs
Views of people in audience as J. Hillis Miller and Fuller Warren
9:02 Gator Growl
Announcer
Skit - jungle theme
Male baton twirler
Skit - live piglet carried off
Skit - a sorority
Skit - fraternity (jungle theme)
Male acrobat
9:41 Interview segment. Men handed microphone to speak into it and then three women
10:30 Swimcapades
Clowns
Two women dance on pool deck then dive into pool and do a water ballet
Water ballet by large group of men and women in the pool
Audience applauding
Eight women in penguin outfits waddle on deck and then dive into pool and commence water ballet
12:36 Football game at Florida Field - UF versus Vanderbilt University
Game action
17:07 Ends with fireworks
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