The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

An animated film with the title The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash. It consists of a single reel of color 16mm polyester film with optical sound. The film is an adaptation of Trinka Hankes Noble's book with the same name and features a child telling their parent about a class trip to a farm. The film begins with a child reporting to their parent that the trip to the farm was "boring...kind of dull, until the cow started crying," to which the parent responds, " A cow, crying?" The rest of the film continues in this manner, where the child reports incidents that happened throughout the day and the parent responding until it’s revealed that Jimmy brought his pet boa constrictor to the farm.

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