Dr. Robert C. Johnson Collection

Date: circa August 1971

Description: People gather outside in an open grassy area with stone buildings at the Association of Black Collegians event. They talk, eat, and walk together.

Duration: 3 minutes, 22 seconds

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• (00:00- 00:21): Group of people outside standing around a smoking grill.  Two people start removing food from the grill while others wait behind them.
• (00:21- 00:32): Three people sit on benches outside with trees and a grassy lawn in the background. A child jumps out from behind a tree. Camera pans away from the people and down the length of a yellow school bus.
• (00:32- 00:35): Three people are outside, one standing beside another lying down in the grass, and the third walking in the background before sitting on a table.
• (00:35- 00:47): Two adults and a young child sit on a blanket outside on a grassy hill with a car parked beside them. The camera zooms in before another person walks up and tosses something onto their blanket.  Other people on the grass separately in the background.
• (00:47- 00:55): A person carrying a white shirt or blanket walks up to a 4-door car parked in the grass outside with both doors on the passenger side of the car open. There are other parked cars beside them. The camera zooms in to the two people sitting in the front seat of the car.
• (00:55- 01:13): Camera pans across a large, grassy lawn outside. The camera zooms across the area showing different people sitting on the grass and others walking around. The scene is blurry. 
• (01:13- 01:16): A person holding items in her left hand walks towards the camera outside before the camera pans to more people standing and lying in the grass in the background with a stone building behind all of them.
• (01:16- 01:22): People stand and sit outside with a stone building in the background. One person is holding a film camera and shoots film of the others then faces the camera.  Another person sits on a table in the background.
• (01:22- 01:32): People sit outside on benches with a grassy lawn, trees, and a yellow schoolbus in the background. The camera zooms in and the shots turns blurry.
• (01:32- 01:37): Group of people walking outside across a grassy lawn towards a schoolbus with buildings also in the background.
• (01:37- 01:41): Three people stand around an outdoor volleyball net. Two of the people are tying the net to the poles and the third is standing talking to one of them.
• (01:41- 01:47): Several people stand and move around parked cars in the grass outside. Some people are picking up items, others are getting in or out of the cars.
• (01:47- 01:51): A person is standing and packing things away into a bag resting on an outdoors bench with two people and a school bus in the background.
• (01:51- 02:01): Group of people stand outside in front of a stone building. One person carries two bags of ice while others walk around in the background and other peolple walk in and out of the shot.
• (02:01- 02:04): Group of people standing and walking outside on a grassy lawn between three cars parked.
• (02:04- 02:10): Three people stand outside on the side of a small grassy hill next to a tree with a school bus and trees in the background. One person raises their fist and walks towards a fourth person who walks into the shot.
• (02:10- 02:13): Group of people standing and sitting outside in front of a stone building.
• (02:13- 02:22): Group of people standing and walking outside on a grassy lawn between three parked cars.
• (02:22- 02:28): Fast scanning of scene (blurry).
• (02:29- 03:22): No footage.