1938 Christmas Original Color NOT AI 8mm film home Movie-Awesome shots of toys & tree/home VERY RARE
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What else can be said about this very early Color home movie of Christmas 1938, what a lost treasure just found!!! 8mm Color film was so expensive when it first came out in the 1930's that it's so hard to find any at all. All most all the 1930's films on TH-cam have been colored by AI but not this one...Enjoy seeing the real colors of things from almost 90 years ago
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That's a huge haul for a kid in 1938; miniature vanity table and accessories, miniature floor sweeper, toy piano, doll, tricycle, umbrella
She was very lucky
And a fur coat for grandma. Yeah, those people had money.
considering they had a 8mm color filmer, i imagine they had money out the wazoo.
yes they did for that time
And the most expensive thing must've been the camera that this was shot on
This family was very blessed for 1938. Coats and a tricycle. Nice!
And Color Film, that was expensive for the time
Not just Coats...A Fur and a Leather Jacket. You can tell they are of quality.
I'll bet that little girls toy floor sweeper (Bissel?) really did pick up dirt.
This was just before the war and things were starting to get pretty good for the average person. We didnt really have home movies for a while so this is still impressive but its more likely upper middle class than elites. People working hard 7 days a week to have these things, basically.
Looks more American than British. 😂
Oh and I bet the family had a few quid around especially with colour film 📽️ in 1938. 😂
@@UnpopularName I agree ! Their house seems rather ordinary, not at all a mansion of the elite! Things were getting better by then.
This precious child is probably someone’s great grandma now
yep
If she is still alive
Aye probably around 90 years old.🗝️
Something around that age. 😂
@@angelabrooke5059she’d be younger than my grandmother who only just died so she certainly could be alive.
I was just thinking, my Grama was almost 4 when this was taken. About ha girl's age :)
That girl would be around the same age as my grandparents but lived a very different life. My mother's mother grew up in Texas during the Depression and lived with her family in a fixed-up cow barn. They were very poor. But during Christmas, her family would make tamales and go door to door giving them out to everyone in the town who were worse off than them.
Just a little act of Christmas kindness during a really tough time.
It was a tough time for most, thanks for sharing
That is so wonderful.
@@bobbyrobaina the best tamales are the home made ones in New Mexico. You still see people selling tamales here trying to make ends meet.
@@0159ralph Indeed. Lived in NM for many years, lovely there
Most Americans lived a very different life. My grandparents came here legally from Ireland, yet many prejudices. But they worked hard, payed taxes, and scraped together what they could for a few gifts.😊
Kodachrome Type A (for indoor use) was extremely slow (ASA 16). Notice the harsh shadows on the wall from the tungsten floodlights required to get exposures this clean. Whoever was behind the camera knew what they were doing. I suspect the outdoor scenes at the end were shot with a color-correction filter (Type A was not designed for sunlight).
Overall, this reel is a testament to Kodachrome's long-term stability.
Wow, Thanks for the info, you really know your stuff
@@FullFrame-tm9oy I shot a lot of Kodachrome in the 70s and 80s. Shooting Type A indoors was always tricky.
Thanks for the info I'm still trying to learn this hobby, I love History so that is how my film collecting started and then this channel to share it
@@FullFrame-tm9oy To clarify:
Back when this movie was made, 8mm Kodachrome came in 2 types: Kodachrome daylight (ASA 10), and Type A which was balanced for tungsten lights (ASA 16).
Kodak gradually increased the ASA over the decades, making the film "faster"; i.e., more light sensitive.
By the mid '70s, the daylight stock was ASA 25, and Type A was ASA 40, making each 2.5 times faster than the earliest stock from the '30s.
Also, home movies were generally silent films, with an average speed of 16 frames per second, as opposed to the standard sound speed of 24 fps.
Kodachrome--both film and transparencies (slides)--is the greatest photographic medium of the 20th Century. I have Kodachrome slides shot by relatives in the 1940s and '50s that are just as clear as they were when first developed 70-80 years ago. I am slowly scanning and digitizing them in order to preserve them for all time.
I was born the week before Christmas in 1938. We lived in a nice home then and my parents were to buy a home that year in a nice suburb. But this scene shows a family with it all. God Bless them for the memories.
Thanks for sharing and watching !!!
Wow I bet you've not seen much colour home filming from this exact time then 🎉
you are correct, the color film I bought in this collection is the earliest I own now
Definitely a well to do family. Fur for mom, leather for daddy, and a home movie camera with then fairly new and expensive color film.
I know, they were definitely well off, color film for 8mm was only 3 years old and cost a lot
Yep. I was just going to post that myself. The country was still mired in the Depression in '38, and most could not afford anything like what you see here.
@@6omega2The worst of the Depression was over by 1938 (for the US and England)... but Caution was still the word of the day!
You sound jealous.
@@6omega2 That's 100% not true.
Wow. It’s so nice to see a glimpse into 1938 that’s not a commercial. My family were Dust Bowl refugees in 1938 fleeing their farm in Oklahoma.
oh wow!!! that's crazy......check out the 1937 & 1939 Color Christmas with the same family on my channel...Merry Christmas
This brought tears,this little girl would have been my mothers' age around 1938,however this family were much more wealthy.My mothers' Daddy was a farmer in Georgia in 1938 and the great depression still lingered.I was born in 62 and had 2 older brothers.In the boxes my mother kept Christmas decorations was her first doll made from a corn cob.I'm humbled because I have never known hardship like her and my Dad.
I know it was rough during the great depression; it took WWII to pull us out of it
My mom was born in 1934 and I also thought of her when I saw this little girl.
My parents also came from poor hardworking families. She looks to be around 4 years old…my mom was 4 in 1938 and my dad was 6. They’re both in heaven now as is my older brother too. Oh how I miss them!
@@FullFrame-tm9oythere are much better ways to get out of poverty than to have a war.
Same here, born '61 and Mom born in '36. They had a tough time through the Depression and Mom still liked to hoard food even as a fairly wealthy adult. Grandpa did better later, so the fur coat probably came (if I remember in their photos) somewhere just after WWII. Grandpa worked as an exec. for the phone company in the midwest. Mom was a twin and they had twin dolls...but it's the powder puff and little dressing table that brought back memories for me. And I always wanted one of those little pianos!
@@stephaniegoddard9397 My Daddy born in '34 too. Same economically as yours. This film means so much.
Wow, this is incredible. Makes me feel like I'm travelling through time!
I know, right
We are always traveling through time.😊
@@Rikankub Ha! Indeed, we are. 😆
agreed
wish sometimes I could stop and get off...lol
This was a very unique look into a family's life in the 1930s. Yes, these folks had some income flowing as is obvious since this was still considered The Depression. Mom got a fur coat, for cryin' out loud ! I love the end with the town's homemade Christmas village. You know it was all done by hand, they used only quality materials and the craftsmanship was stellar.
they were well off for the time that's for sure, I would love to know if that Christmas village survived time
@@FullFrame-tm9oy That would be fantastic to find out just where this was filmed and the history/fate of that Christmas Village !
I know but no family info came with the films, best I can figure out is that they lived in RI
@@FullFrame-tm9oy I was going to say New England somewhere as the wood Christmas village had a horse drawn carriage and revered what looks to be a New England scene. Of course that could be anywhere, but that's my best guess based on what I know about the south and midwest (having lived in all three).
@@FullFrame-tm9oyNice!
Here we are in 2025 looking at people, whom I have no idea who they are, celebrating Christmas in their home nearly 90 years ago. They are long gone by now, but yet their smiles and the joy felt in their hearts will live forever in this film. I find it simply amazing, thank you for sharing.
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This is absolutely beautiful! Thank you so much for sharing it. ❤ Younger generations tend to think the "old folks" were just born old or something. Films like this make ppl realize that we ALL were young once. We really are.all the same, so to speak.
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Agreed
This was enjoyable to watch. My dad was born in 1938 and is still living. That girl would be around 90 now.
that's awesome, Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas to you as well!
Mine too!
Same for my Mom!!
My grandfather from 1932 is still with us living in his own house. But he never told me that the 30s was like this! He talked about dirty cities en poverty . Man had drinking problems and womans trying to survive with the children. Plus the war was coming
Wow. A moment in time caught on film. Lovely.
Yes, thanks
This film warms my heart. Life is serendipitous! This TH-cam randomly appeared in my video suggestions. Christmas day 1938 was my Mother's birthday. She has been gone for 30 years, but this film has made me think of her and all of the Christmas/Mom's Birthday celebrations we had.
Thanks for sharing this amazing film from 86 years ago!
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A very sentimental moment from TH-cam, seeing a girl about the same age as my mom, with the same hair. Thank you for sharing this with us!
That's a pretty well off family for 1938. That girl is very blessed with nice toys.
You got that right!...Happy New Year !!!
Thank you for sharing. You don't just watch this video, you feel it. Proves, when not messed with, people are people no matter the era they come from.
Absolutely!!
The quality of the images is amazing. My grandfather owned a Bell and Howell Super 8 camera and projector... I was named as custodian of all the cans of film. Around 25 years ago, I had the entire set of reels transferred to DVD. The quality of the film is nowhere near as good as what we see here. I venture that the original film stock must have been of superior quality and was stored with careful sequestration from environmental damage. Thank you for sharing this delightful gem.
this was transferred with each frame being scanned for superior quality, while the old way was to have them just filmed while projected
Hope you hung onto your film. You can have it scanned and put on a hard drive and DVD . The quality would probably be just as good as this.
@@xmiller7691 Thank you for that comment -- I found an online service "iMemories" that will convert all my Super 8 film reels to Digital... the cool bit -- with modern technology, they can clean and enhance the final product... so the tranfer will be even better than my Super 8 to DVD transfer 25 years ago. Cheers!
get it properly digitized again and get them to give you the raw files. DVD is low bitrate, highly compressed, 480i video- it really lowers the potential quality.
@@GremmPaltakinMPEG-2 is also a terrible codec. Leaving many artifacts behind.
That was wonderful. It looks like everyone got clothing for Christmas. The village at the end was great.
Thank you so much!
I wish there was more footage of that village display on the hill. It looks like they rigged up cut-out carolers and even cut-out horses with moving legs onto a track of some kind so they would move along from house to house! Never seen anything quite in that style as a temporary holiday display. This must have been a rather prosperous community. (I'm assuming that was something put together by the town or local "social committee", not an individual homeowner.)
It's crazy how the picture quality is so much better than my family videos from the 80's and 90's.
Film is amazing
That's the difference between film and tape. Standard tape is really quite limited, because it only needed to be good enough for an old fashioned CRT television, which was in turn limited by the amount of information that could be transmitted in an analog broadcast signal. On the other hand, the quality of film depends only on the fineness of the grains in the film itself. Theoretically there's no limit.
Thanks for explaining. I wondered about this myself. As a thirty-something, I wondered how so many old movies from the 1940s onward can look so sharp and vivid and in 4K, while newer movies from the 1980s and 90s look dull and are mostly available in HD.
Beautiful family! I feel like that may have been the dad's parents by the way he and Grandma hugged and kissed. That was her boy! It also looks like Grandpa took over the camera for a while so that Dad could be in the film. The Christmas scenery at the end was also wonderful. That's the feel of America I remember as a child in the late 1960s and early 1970s. My mom was 6 years old when this film was made. She sadly passed away in 2000. I loved watching this little slice of real life. Subscribed!
Thank you for watching and Subscribing, Merry Christmas
@@FullFrame-tm9oy Yes, Merry Christmas to you!
My parents were born in 1934 and 1935. Miss them so much! This is such a lovely video. Thank you! Merry Christmas ☃️❄️🎄🩵
Thanks, I'll be posting 1939 in color soon also, Merry Christmas
@ I’ll look forward to it!
Love this! That little girl would have been slightly younger than my grandmother. She’s adorable! I hope this family went on to have many more Christmases together.
I hope so too...Happy New Year !!!
Thank you for sharing this. It’s a peek into a past life. That alone blows my mind.
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When I grew up in foster care I used to believe all families were like this ❤ Everyone and everything in the video is so beautiful. You can feel there’s a lot of love this moment it’s very nice to be shared with the world.
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Very interesting! It was a family with prosperity. And the old christmas tree with lots of lametta or tinsel. An other hint that it was a family with good income.
Recognizable too by the number and type of gifts. I wondered if this little and cute girl maybe is still living. It was nice to see the happiness and how they have fun with each other. We can see that they are not different than us. Thanks for sharing! It is a real history-treasure.
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I suppose that one would not need to be rich to have a movie camera then but likely one wouldn't buy a movie camera (especially one that could take movies of this quality)
unless one was fairly comfortable financially and was not struggling financially due to the depression.
Wow! How awesome! This was the year my mother was born (she passed away in the late 90's). I kept imagining my grandparents and my aunts (her parents & siblings) back then on Christmas morning as I watched this movie. Thanks so much for making me smile today!
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My dad would have been 15 years old, and my mom would have been 10 years old when this film was made. (They passed in 2007.) It was like looking at their lives so long ago. I loved seeing the Christmas village at the end of the film.
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My mother would have been 15 also. She passed in 2018, age 94. Miss those old timers, tough generation, they saw a lot of changes.
My mom was 14 and Dad was 17 in 1938. I wish l had some home movies of them when they were that young. Christmas wasn't much different in the 1960s. Our Christmas tree looked much the same thirty years later.
@@FullFrame-tm9oyDid you know this family? Do you know if they're still with us?
@@bryanspindle4455 I still have some glass ornaments that my mom bought at Woolworth's before I was born. They still shine! Mom decorated our tree the way grandma did in the late 1930's - Lots of tinsel, glass bead garlands, and glass ornaments from Woolworth's. Merry Christmas!
What a sweet and loving family. I bet they were fun to be around. They certainly embodied the Christmas spirit. I hope they all went on to have many good years together. 🥺
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It’s wild that we don’t even know who this family is, the OP doesn’t know who they are, and it is most glorious to watch them. I hope they all lived a long and healthy life.
the new video I just launched today has the little girl's name, Secord is the family name
This is beautiful, my mother was born in 1936 and is still alive and healthy today, my dad was born in 1937, passed in 2018, beautiful man he was, my mother lives with me and my wife now and is doing well and blessed as ever, this film made my year, so much emotion involved in something like this, I'm 61 now and will always have my mom right down the hall from me...I hope some day the younger generations can see and appreciate how great life really is with family in the days before all the electronics, I do enjoy all my devices, but at one time , non of it existed...thanks for posting this and hello to all the people that enjoyed this with me...God Bless!❤️😊
Thanks for Sharing, Well Said. God Bless you and your family too
@@StreetGlideJeff
So true about us not having all the electronics we have today. I’m 64 and I must say I enjoy today’s perks but don’t quite understand how to use most of it!
In our day we didn’t know any different. We might not have had as many things as today’s kids but boy did we still have fun with what we had! 🤩🙏🏼💕
@@stephaniegoddard9397 😀👍🏼
Wow! Absolutely beautiful!. To see, see the 1930s in color, real color. This family must have been well off since this was doing the Great depression. Such a treat to watch
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This was SWEET!!!! Oh, those Shirley Temple hair-dos for little girls. Geez.
This was so nice to watch! Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it
Warm fuzzy feelings. I love the piano music as well.
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This is wonderful to see. I can't make out what kind of lights are on the tree, but they may have reflectors that make them look larger. The lead foil icicles are beautiful. The little girl is so cute. My mom is 95 and says it definitely was NOT a simpler time in the 1930s for her. She much prefers today to then.
95, wow the changes your mom must have seen is simply amazing
@@FullFrame-tm9oy Some examples she gives--her bedroom was over the store their family ran and it wasn't heated and she slept with her younger sister. Snow would come inside the closed windows and not melt. They were luckier than many people and had electricity and a telephone, but they didn't get an indoor toilet until about 1939. Going to the toilet outside when it's below freezing--that was not simple.
I think they were bubble lights - we had bubble lights in the 1950's.
@@georgeclarke9344 We did too. I recall them in the 1960s and early 1970s. I am guessing they had been in our family a while since I had 8 older siblings.
@@georgeclarke9344Bubble lights were not introduced until 1946
That little girl, if still alive, would be 89-90 years old. I wonder what became of her.
There was no name or address on this lot of film, sometimes i google the name and 9 times out of 10 they are deceased
Yes, I was thinking of that as well... she would be 7 years older than my father today.
My mother was born in 1934 and still lives alone on 30 acres. This made me think of her during her childhood in Alexandria VA. There are color photos but no color films.
@dentalnovember Fascinating. We have a few dozen black and white family photos from the 1890-1920 era. It was expensive but if that was a family's one big hobby, I could see it happening with color photos in the late 30s, just like we have ours. I hope your mother has been able to share a lot of other family history too.
Sadly, I have no idea as I bought the lot of 36 films off Ebay with no family info
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I know it’s not healthy certainly not for children or family pets, but there was something about the tinsel. It really made the Christmas tree come to life. Maybe it’s just me getting old at 78. I still remember when they were blue bulbs next in with the green and redChristmas light string great video sweet gentle very refreshing to see.
I miss the days of old also, things seemed so much better then
Why is tinsel not healthy?
@@mplslawnguy3389 it can kill animals and children if they ingest it
@@mplslawnguy3389 contained lead
it was made of lead back then
I love watching this because my beautiful mother was born July 31,1938..The clothing and everything about this would have been kind of like when she was born into this world..She went to sing with the angels on June 18 1983 it was just 11 days before my 17th birthday..Thank you again for sharing
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I love this video. The autos & Christmas village scenes are added bonuses. Interesting to note that the dad might have fought in WWII in just three short years.
yes, he may have, i wish I had info on the family but I don't
Doubt it, he did not look of age to participate in combat
Absolutely amazing, thank you!♥️
Glad you enjoyed it!
A much simpler time and how beautiful it was. Obviously an upper class family exchanging beautiful gifts of coats and children’s toys. Very nostalgic indeed 😊
Well said!
I don't know that it was a simpler time. In the midst of the Great Depression and WWII was just around the corner.
@ lol…there’s always one in the crowd. The term “simpler” is quite subjective.
My maternal grandparents were 3 in 1938. They both grew up poor in the depression but they always got good gifts for Christmas. Glad this little girl had a good Christmas that year and hopefully had great memories of her childhood.
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1938 the year my father was born. I very much enjoyed sharing this family's Christmas from years gone by.
Glad you enjoyed it
My father, also. In December. So awesome to see how things were when he was 2 weeks old.
Thank you for this....imagine if someone in 86 years watches a random home movie of a family Christmas from 2024....
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In 13 years this clip will be 100 years old! Life is nothing but a blink of an eye. Beautiful memories 🥰🥰🥰
Crazy, you are so right about that
Must have a good job. This was during the depression or shortly after.
My mom who is gone would have been 3 years old when this was filmed. Just about the same age as the little girl in this film.
What a wonderful look back in time. Thanks for sharing.
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I'm glad to see the actual color! All the AI coloring jobs fail to capture even a glimmer of the vibrancy of what it was actually like!
I totally Agree
Thank you so much for this wonderful gift! How very kind of you.❤
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My parents would have ben 14 and 16 then. I had a little carpet sweeper like that in the 60s. Mom used to use it on spots herself when she found out it worked good. Very sweet film of the past. Merry Christmas to all.
Thank you and Merry Christmas to you
Notice how centered, calm, focused everyone seems without screens? The grandmother just sitting quiet and still, enjoying just the simple presence of her family.
It's truly amazing how well behaved they are
That's the way it should be but now it's so rare to see
I’ve noticed the generations that have grown up in a world with smartphones, tablets and all the modern stuff have a lot more people that are very socially awkward. I notice a lot of people under 35 or 40 have a tough time with direct conversation. Their whole world is on a screen most of the day, so no wonder. You see groups of kids just sitting on their devices, nobody is conversing and just enjoying the moment. It’s like any downtime has to be filled with a screen of some sort. I grew up before them, but even I catch myself defaulting to the phone. The internet and tech are amazing but I’m not so sure they are good for us. I would be perfectly fine with going back to a world without all of it.
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Fantastic quality. I love looking at how families used to celebrate Christmas. The clothes look really beautiful. That tree is magnificent.
Happy holidays!
Thank you for sharing this. It was taken 3 years after my mother was born but they were on the Canadian Prairies. 8 of them (well, at that time only 5) living in a grain shed. Still, mum had really fond memories of her "little house on the prairie."
Wow !!! thanks for sharing...God Bless
Wow, wonderful quality. Beautiful family and tree.
Yes, thank you
For years they could not transfer 8mm film properly and people assumed that those flickering, miscolored, blurry efforts was what 8mm film was all about. But now here you see just how good it was and you have done it justice.
thank you, and thanks for watching
The icicles (reflective strips) hanging from the tree were probably made of lead. I remember hanging these on the tree in the 50's and 60's. They were heavy and much easier to hang on the tree than the plastic strips sold in the 80's. They would also break if you bent them too often.
I bet they were... Happy New Year !!!
Merry Christmas! I love the home movie. Lucky little girl and family. Very nice presents for all.
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What a precious little girl. So nice to observe their pleasant mannerisms, unlike so many heathens today.
Love the festive Christmas village display in the background.
I agree
There were plenty of heathens then too. Don't fall into that silly trap.
You're getting carried away with your nostalgia after watching a video that showed a very tiny piece of life for one or two families on the particular day of the year when they are especially happy and celebrating.
There were good and bad people then and there are good and bad people now.
Heathens sounds like an expression someone would use in the 19th century.
There's no need to spoil the mood of the thread with talk like that.
Thank you for posting this wonderful video ''Full Frame'' .. It's people like you ~ lifting so many peoples spirits up , who make this world a better place . much positivity in this 8mm film. Cheers !!
indeed, .for this is grand...What a nice , happy family ... Such a joy to watch ~ good to know there are additional vids of them .
So cozy looking
I know looks like I could fall asleep reading a book there, thanks for watching !!!
Babygirl was probably around the same age as my daddy, he would have been 88 this year, but he went Home in 2012. She made out like a bandit for Christmas, lol, this was a fat Christmas for the 30s. God bless her, hope her life is/was happy. ❤
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This is beautiful! I especially love the house, the tree, and the giant Christmas village! Thanks for the trip down memory lane (that happened 35 years before I was born😂)!🥰🎄💜
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It’s so wonderful to see just what my mom’s world looked like- she would have been the same age as this child.
My dad too, so I know what you mean
There's something so hilarious about watching an almost 90 year old moment captured in video of a supposedly long gone era of time only for the first thing you see being someone flipping the camera off, love it lol
Somethings are timeless...lol
That is so sweet and heart warming to me🤗🤗❤💚🎄🎀!! Even though The Great Depression existed, fortunately this family did not suffer!!! l The Parents looked so happy❤💚❤💚 and both Parents looked as if they loved their little girl❤💚❤💚!! And I so LOVED the Doll which I think is a Googly Doll, popular back in the 1930s❤💚 and I see that little girl loved her toy piano🎹❤💚❤💚!!! And what a beautiful Christmas Tree too!!! Thanks for sharing the joy of Christmas🎄🎀✨ in this video which never goes out of style even in 2024🤗🤗!!
Thanks for watching and have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
My dad was born in 1935 so he’d be around this girl’s age, except he was born in Kazakhstan and was lucky if he had a piece of bread to eat for the day. My mom was born in 1940 in Russia, right when WWII started and her entire childhood was filled with poverty. But I’m glad that this little girl had all the toys she wanted. I just wish my parents had a better childhood as well.
WWII and the great depression were a hard time for most, thanks for sharing
My father was born within an hour or so of this film being made.
We lost him in 2021.
Very nice film when things were simpler for sure.
Sorry for your loss, thanks for sharing, God Bless
My mom always put the tinsel on the Christmas tree. It just added such a nice sparkle. I miss those younger days.
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This is very cool -Thanks for showing the world how simple life really used to be.Thats priceless. Merry Christmas
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This was a very difficult year for most families. These folks were evidently not devastated by the depression.
I Agree
Whether it is family films or movies, nobody from that era could imagine people from around the world would be sitting in their own homes watching them or still watching their films nearly a hundred years on
I know, it's crazy
Wow!! What a precious and beautiful moment in time and family! My father was born in 1938. I wouldn't be here if someone important didn't come into the world that year.
Agreed, My Dad was born in 1938, so I know what you mean, Merry Christmas
My mother would've been five years old at the time; my father, seven. However, these scenes are a far cry from Christmas on farms in Iowa and Wisconsin. I hope that little girl had a good life. May they all rest in peace.
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A happy Christmas morning 87 years ago, what a gift.
Happy holidays!
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A peek into yesterday. 🙌🏻 beautiful
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I wonder if the little girl who would be in her 90s now is still alive? Great piece of footage.
I hope she is, thanks for watching
What an amazing little piece of history. Just beautiful. The little girl is adorable. 💙
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Wow,, what a generation. Such respect for them. WW2 on the brink of beginning, FDR is office and my grandparents are a decade younger than I am now.
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Seeing this really shows that people in the 1930's are not that different than people today, just styles have changed. I wish I could hear what was being said and everything.
I agree, it would be awesome to hear what was said and even just the background noise from the house and street
Thank you for Sharing this.😊
Everyone Notice how Happy everyone was when life was Simpler !
My pleasure!
And also well dressed.
I know we like to think that, but it wasn't.
yes, unlike the comfort dress today
agreed, life was a lot harder back then
Beautiful footage of a wonderful looking family and their Christmas
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My grandma would have been about 8 around this time. She passed away in September..
Crazy to see what Christmas in her generation might have looked like. ❤
Sorry for your loss, God Bless
Memories of a long ago past. Im glad I got to enjoy what real holiday family gatherings were like as a kid growing up in those times. Aunts and uncles,cousins,nieces and nephews all stopping by throughout the day on Thanksgiving, Christmas and even Easter day. When mom and pop passed it all kind of went by the wayside. But I realized that it’s not just happening to my family but most families nowadays. Things are just so much different now and unfortunately there is no turning back the clock. Hold on to those crazy holiday family visit memories. Cheers to hoping you still have those crazy visits. If you do, enjoy every moment. You have something rare and valuable to hold on to. 🌴😊🌴
I totally Agree, Life moves to fast, then it's gone, enjoy it with the people you care about for as long as you can
My mom was born in '38 and I was born in '72. My grandparents home never looked this posh for either of our childhoods.
my childhood either
That's stunningly good quality for a home video from the *30s* of all decades
Couldn't agree more! the camara man knew how to set up lights and use the focus correctly, that's for sure
It's amazing how footage from over 85+ years ago can still be found today. 😂
The wonders of home video technology. 😂
So True, Happy New Year
@@FullFrame-tm9oy Aye Happy New Year 🎊🕛 😂
More stuff to come as I work on posting all 36 films on this family
Beautiful. Those people had no idea that random people from around the world would be watching their private home movies from Christmas day, 86 years later.
It's crazy for sure, I wonder what they will be doing in 86 years with our memories
@@FullFrame-tm9oy Probably scratching their heads and asking...wtf...
lol...thanks for watching and More stuff to come as I work on posting all 36 films on this family
Nice! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching!
Magically beautiful! This looks very much like our living room at Christmastime in the 1950s including how the tree is decorated! If that little girl is still living she would be about 90 (four years old in 1938?)
88 as best I can figure she was born in early 1936, Thanks for Watching
This isn’t the 1938 my Dad told me about. He was on a farm in Kentucky with 3 other siblings and a widowed mom. But actually, it’s good to see some people lived through it normally, Cheers!
thanks for watching !!!
Both of my gramma's were 5 & were January babies. Its nice to see how they dressed & decorated that massive tree! 🎉
That is awesome! Happy New Year !!!
Magnifique film et souvenirs d’une époque très chic !
Merci beaucoup et Joyeux Noël ❤
Thanks, Merry Christmas to you and your family too
Merci beaucoup !
Merry Christmas to you !
A very memorable classy film. I love that. SO SO CHERISABLE.
Thank you for watching...God Bless
00:10 She just gave the finger to the camera! Yep they were doing it even in 1938!... I saw a photo of GW Univ students in DC lounging on the roof of a GW bldg sunbathing and the are all giving the finger to the camera man. And this was a 1930s photo!!
wow, I'll have to rewatch it to catch it
😂
I think that's her index finger. She's giving a "come on in!" gesture.
Wow this is really cool. Thank you for bringing older times to life. ❤ what a treasure
Glad you enjoyed it!
This is a great quality film. This family must have been very wealthy.
At least well off and knew how to use a Camera and lights, very rare indeed back then
What a gem! Thank you for sharing.
Thanks for Watching!!! Happy New Year !!!
Wow! I wish I had film like that of my parents. My Mom was 7 in 1938 and my Dad was 2. They are both still alive!
that's awesome they are still with you, my dad passed in the 90's
@@FullFrame-tm9oy Sorry to hear that
I hope this Family Appreciates how "Blessed" they are, especially in 1938. Lots of Nice Gifts for All. They must be "Upper, Upper Middle Class"!!
I hope they did, and survived through the war also
Thanks so much for sharing this!
My pleasure!
If you could shoot color home movies back then, you were doing pretty well. Kodachrome film was very new and expensive. I'm a partner in a film and video transfer business and we did a job for a client who had color home movies from the 30s shot on 16mm film. If you thought 8mm was expensive, 16mm had to be twice as expensive. They were well to do, that's for sure.
Wow!!! I have some color 16mm from the 30's just have to figure out how to use the transfer machine I bought. I'm pretty new to film collecting but love getting home movies to share. God Bless