Blanc family videos : Premiere Communion de Josiane : speech
Blanc family videos : Premiere Communion de Josiane : speech
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Item consists of a Haitian family's home movie starts with a child putting a communion veil on another child. It also features the child in a white dress speaking to an audience and ends with several children entering the frame wrapping arms around one another. The audio is out of sync and the footage contains a lot of noise. Donor(s) and project contributed description follows: "The year is 1985 and in Verdun, Quebec, eight or nine years old Josiane Blanc celebrates her Catholic communion. In this clip Josiane is speak and telling her family what she is grateful for. She goes on to play with her friends and cousins. Josiane recalls that growing up in Verdun she was one of the only Black kids at her school for a few years. When the second Black girl arrived, they would end up being friends and her friend appears in tail end of this video."
