The Beaumont Cherry Blossom Festival

Motion Picture

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Santa Fe Springs City Library

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Name/Title

The Beaumont Cherry Blossom Festival

Entry/Object ID

A-25

Description

This film showcases Beaumont's Cherry Blossom festival activities. In the film, Japanese children perform a cultural dance routine dressed in kimono. It also displays vast fields of cherry blossom trees in bloom.

Context

Film mailed to Afga Ansco Corporation in Los Angeles by Mrs. Chauncey D. Clarke. Chauncey D. Clarke and his wife, Marie Rankin Clarke enjoyed travel as a pasttime. Through their pictures, we can see the yearly Beaumont Cherry Blossom Fesitival in it's early years. The Clarkes owned two properties in the general Inland Empire. These pictures reflect the couple's inclination to participate in a community around them, the history of the festival, and what entertainment looked like in the early 1930s

Collection

Marie Rankin Clarke Film Reels

Acquisition

Accession

2025.2.4

Source or Donor

James Seimon

Acquisition Method

Purchase

Source (if not Accessioned)

The Clarke Estate

Motion Picture Details

Genre

Amateur

Film Gauge/Format

16mm Film reel

Runtime

0:03:44

Sound

Film Sound

Silent

Producer

Marie Rankin Clarke

Made/Created

Artist

Marie Rankin Clarke

Date made

Mar 26, 1933

Time Period

20th Century

Place

Region

Southern California

Continent

North America

Notes

Film developed in October 1933

Location

Box

Box A, SFSL Archive

Copyright

Type of License

None

Copyright Details

Public Domain.No restrictions on use.