Home Movie: 096556 (silent)

Description: Festive fall and winter family days in the 1950s filled with child-oriented activities including Halloween costumes and rituals, children playing in snow, and Christmas meals and many gifts for children on Christmas morning.

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Subjects: 1950s,Holidays,Families,Children,Games and play,Celebrations and ceremonies

Tags: Christmas decorations; crafts; painting; lettering; signs; Christmas trees; filmed off television; television sets; TV sets; wrapping gifts; Christmas morning; bowling pins; breakfasts; bunk beds; children sleeping; dinners; Christmas dinners; children's tables; model trains; train sets; railroad crossings; model submarines; painting model; crystal radio sets; stuffed bears; toy bears; toys; sledding; toboggans; sledding toward camera; Boy Scouts; churches; Boy Scout dinners; church basements; accordions; muddy roads; high angle view of lake; jumping jacks; warmups; athletics; football; touch football; youth football; Halloween; children in Halloween costumes; Halloween parties; princess costumes; angel costumes; tramp costumes; trick or treating; painting a Christmas sign for the window; grandparents and grandchildren; wrapping presents; eating at the kitchen table; living room interiors; kids table; squinting at camera lights; displaying gifts; cakes; Halloween parade down basement stairs; sack of potatoes; basements; Sylvester costume; posing for camera; hiding from camera; saddle shoes

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Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection

Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive

Production Date: circa 1954

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Geographical Location: USA

Genre/Form: home movie

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Film Format: 8mm film

Element: reversal

Color: color

Color Process: Kodachrome

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: triangle, circle circle

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 156