This clip is a super 8 home movie showing a black mother and son and daughter enjoying a mostly-empty New Jersey beach on a sunny day during the 1970s.

It begins with the boy and girl holding hands and running around and performing for the camera. Both are wearing denim jackets and pants.

The boy runs around the beach, chasing seagulls, running towards the water, and running around with his sister.

An amusement park stands in the distance. We see rollercoasters, carousels, and other attractions. In the foreground, we see garbage strewn across the beach. Large swaths of the beach are discolored a brown-gray.

Small waves ripple near the shore. The mother and her kids walk toward the water.

In the clip’s final scene, we see the boy playing and digging in the sand. The mother kneels down and begins drawing letters in the sand. The boy looks at his mother's writing and crawls up to her side before crawling away, talking to himself, and continuing to play in the sand.