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.
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.
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.
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!
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!
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.
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.
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
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.
@@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.
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.
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.
This film warms my heart. Life is serendipitous! This UA-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!
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.
@@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).
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!
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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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!
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.
@@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.
@@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.
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.
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 !!
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.
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😂)!🥰🎄💜
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!❤️😊
@@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! 🤩🙏🏼💕
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.
What a beautiful film of outstanding quality... one of my uncles was a war correspondent for the Wehrmacht... he said that the new Kodak and Agfa color films were able to produce brilliant images. At the beginning of the war there was still American raw material, but as the war progressed the material became too expensive for those in charge or was no longer available.
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 😊
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.
Yeah, and they got a lot more attention. No television, no internet. Everyone is paying attention to each other, and you can tell by how the little girl looks to the adults after everything she does that she is used to grown-ups who are tuned in.
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🤗🤗!!
These people have $$$$$. Fur coat, leather coat, silk dress, silk smoking jacket/robe, play vanity for the little girl, not to mention many other beautiful presents - the doll, small piano. What an adorable little girl. My dad would be born in less than a month.
This is crazy how similar things were to they are today. I always pictured it very different. My grandparents were not even born yet. Its so crazy to see the little girl and think she could be an old lady now. Thank you for uploading this!
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. ❤
I enjoyed the video (my mother was born in 1938 and is 86). I was intrigued by the Christmas village cut-out display at the end of the video. That is so neat! I've looked at that part more than once.
Definitely rich. Color film was extremely expensive, as well as home video cameras. They didn't really become a thing until the 60s. We had a Bell&Howell. Even very old footage from the likes of Stan Laurels family aren't anywhere near this quality.
Lovely and rare to see every day people of the period, at home. Rather than the exaggeratedvand glamorous versions we see from movies (which I enjoy). Thank you! Merry Christmas 🎄
@@olgafred9508 I’m European too and this just looks like a nice prosperous family each of whom has a new garment for Christmas. Where is your evidence of ‘materialistic overkill’? This is hardly an episode of ‘Keeping up with the Kardashian’s’
Do you know the type of Kodachrome that this was shot on? It’s amazing to see an example of such age. You can clearly see how much light the film needed, it’s a massive spotlight in the room.
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.
I remember my dad setting up a Lionel train set around the base of our Christmas tree around 1969 through the early 70's. My siblings and I used to take a strand of tinsel from the tree and lay it across the tracks to make a spark when the old steam engine ran over it. I'm 62 now, and was just looking at a few Polaroid pictures of the four of us kids sitting in front of the tree, each with a favorite toy. Merry Christmas everyone!
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!!
My mum was 8 months old then...... She passed away in 2013 a whole life time comes and goes, if I had one wish..... Give me a time machine, thanks mum for looking after me 🌹❤️
Great to see this. The color is so good, it this Kodachrome? Kodachrome doesn't fade that's why I am wondering. Thanks for posting this, fascinating look back.
@@FullFrame-tm9oy the Netherlands ( city Rotterdam) i’m all in to history before ww2. I’m also busy with my family history and finding out how they lived back than. It’s so fascinating . Pictures you van find yes but video’s that’s something else.
This is so fascinating. That Christmas tree is really amazing. And as others have said the little girl is so cute. Too bad. We don't have audio. Kids say such hilarious things sometimes and always have.
@@FullFrame-tm9oy - Maybe there's a lip reader out there who could give us an idea what they were saying to each other. Nonetheless , a very lovely video. Thanks for posting it.
@@jabbermocky4520 I’d say they were affluent but not necessarily super wealthy. Unemployment remained stubborn in 1938 at 17% but that still meant 83% were IN work and prices had tumbled during the Depression years. Plenty of people had money to spend.
@@gerardmackay8909 My parents were newly married that year. I remember her telling a story of how broke they were. She had nothing for dinner and payday was a day away. She searched the couch cushions for loose change and found nine cents. Enough to buy a pound of chop meat.She went to the butcher and he said its a little over a pound is that okay? she said no. I'm making something, it has to be a pound. she was too embarrassed to say thats all she had.
Hello.. The Christmas display @3:00 is very impressive. Maybe someone can find out where this was filmed.. It would also be interesting to find out what happened to this family and the little girl as she grew up... Thanks for posting this.. a Great Find for sure.. 😃🌲
That family was very fortunate to have such a delightful Christmas during the Great Depression. WWII was on the horizon and that young man may have been drafted.
This sweet little girl miggt still be alive 🎉🎉🎉 Think how kuch she has seen in her life. This is so sweet, it makes me cry 😭 for the sweeter times we once had .....
this made me too sad, I couldnt' watch the whole thing.... everything we've lost as a culture and society.... we are done, we'll never have this again.... I am so lonely. My heart aches.
There must have been some AI help in this, because there are no film scratches or dust particles visible. However, it is still a beautiful memoir from a bygone era!
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.
might of got rich shorting the market, it works both ways 😂
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.
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.
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.
This precious child is probably someone’s great grandma now
yep
That precious little girl is probably a great mummy by 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.
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
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.
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.
This film warms my heart. Life is serendipitous! This UA-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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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
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!!
That was wonderful. It looks like everyone got clothing for Christmas. The village at the end was great.
Thank you so much!
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!
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!
Thank you for sharing this. It’s a peek into a past life. That alone blows my mind.
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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.
Warm fuzzy feelings. I love the piano music as well.
Glad you like it!
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!
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.
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!
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.
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
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
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 .
Wow, wonderful quality. Beautiful family and tree.
Yes, thank you
Fantastic quality. I love looking at how families used to celebrate Christmas. The clothes look really beautiful. That tree is magnificent.
Happy holidays!
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
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😂)!🥰🎄💜
Glad you enjoyed it!
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 😀👍🏼
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
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
That's a pretty well off family for 1938. That girl is very blessed with nice toys.
You got that right!...Happy New Year !!!
What a beautiful film of outstanding quality... one of my uncles was a war correspondent for the Wehrmacht... he said that the new Kodak and Agfa color films were able to produce brilliant images. At the beginning of the war there was still American raw material, but as the war progressed the material became too expensive for those in charge or was no longer available.
Wow, thanks for sharing the very cool story... Happy New Year and God Bless
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.
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
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
So very sweet. What a beautiful little girl and...very lucky. This clip is stellar. Thanks for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed it
This is very cool -Thanks for showing the world how simple life really used to be.Thats priceless. Merry Christmas
Thanks for watching-Merry Christmas
This was a very difficult year for most families. These folks were evidently not devastated by the depression.
I Agree
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
A happy Christmas morning 87 years ago, what a gift.
Happy holidays!
thanks for watching
Beautiful 8mm, kids were sure well-mannered ❤
Yeah, and they got a lot more attention. No television, no internet. Everyone is paying attention to each other, and you can tell by how the little girl looks to the adults after everything she does that she is used to grown-ups who are tuned in.
Absolutely
Agreed
That's a huge haul for a kid in 1938; miniature vanity table and accessories, miniature floor sweeper, toy piano, doll, tricycle, umbrella
Amazing seeing this. Glad it still survives
thank you
@@FullFrame-tm9oy Thanks for uploading!
Very nice!
None of my ancestors were living like this during The Great Depression.
mine either but it's cool to see how the other half lived
I wish I'd had a family like this.
It was a different time for sure
And those good ole early General Electric C9 Christmas lights on that beautiful tree!
Oh yeah!
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
These people have $$$$$. Fur coat, leather coat, silk dress, silk smoking jacket/robe, play vanity for the little girl, not to mention many other beautiful presents - the doll, small piano. What an adorable little girl. My dad would be born in less than a month.
I Agree they had $$$
Nice! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching!
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
This is crazy how similar things were to they are today. I always pictured it very different. My grandparents were not even born yet. Its so crazy to see the little girl and think she could be an old lady now. Thank you for uploading this!
Thanks for sharing an viewing my channel
The little girl would be, if she's still alive, in her late 80s/early 90s.
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
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
I enjoyed the video (my mother was born in 1938 and is 86). I was intrigued by the Christmas village cut-out display at the end of the video. That is so neat! I've looked at that part more than once.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Someone out there must know and remember that Christmas village..where was that?
Thanks so much for sharing this!
My pleasure!
This lucky little girl got more gifts for one Christmas than all my childhood Christmases combined.
Wow !!
Definitely rich. Color film was extremely expensive, as well as home video cameras. They didn't really become a thing until the 60s. We had a Bell&Howell. Even very old footage from the likes of Stan Laurels family aren't anywhere near this quality.
I know, this guy knew how to use lighting and to focus the camera
The antimacassar on the chair... reminds me of my grandparents houses
Awesome
The design reminds me of an American Indian theme, but it probably isn’t. There isn’t any indication where this is.
This is spectacular! Thank for this! I'm going to subscribe to your channel! Merry Christmas!!
Thanks for subbing! and Merry Christmas !!!
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
WOW moving pictures AND color? how expensive would that camera have been for the time?
same as black and white camera, just the film is more expensive, not the camera.
Film would be a lot more then Black and white that's for sure...Happy New Year !!!
You are correct......Happy New Year !!!
Lovely and rare to see every day people of the period, at home. Rather than the exaggeratedvand glamorous versions we see from movies (which I enjoy).
Thank you! Merry Christmas 🎄
I doubt these were every day people of the period. To my European eye at least it looks like a materialistic overkill hardly anybody could afford.
@@olgafred9508 I’m European too and this just looks like a nice prosperous family each of whom has a new garment for Christmas. Where is your evidence of ‘materialistic overkill’? This is hardly an episode of ‘Keeping up with the Kardashian’s’
Wow, thank you!
They were better off than most people of the time that's for sure
@@gerardmackay8909 I completely agree.
Do you know the type of Kodachrome that this was shot on? It’s amazing to see an example of such age. You can clearly see how much light the film needed, it’s a massive spotlight in the room.
No, sadly the films in this lot did not come with the boxes or info on the family
@@FullFrame-tm9oythe edges of the film would have markings saying what it was
Just beautiful and a pit of memories for the families ❤️
I agree
Lovely 🎄🦌🎄
Thank you for sharing 🎄
You are so welcome!
Beautifully captured family memories ❤
they are priceless, thanks for viewing
This was really neat! Thanks for Sharing!
Glad you enjoyed it!
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 !
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
Incredible.
agreed, check out the 1937 and coming soon 1939 in original color, total cool and rare
@ thank you so much!!
Thanks, A real Gem that's for sure
This made me cry a little bit. Touching…🥹
Thanks for watching my channel
I was born in 56....tinsel on the tree was still a thing....a pain in the butt to put on and take off but, pretty.
yep, I remember it myself
I was born in 1970 and we had tinsel. My mother loved it! She made it a must to decorate the tree.
I remember my dad setting up a Lionel train set around the base of our Christmas tree around 1969 through the early 70's. My siblings and I used to take a strand of tinsel from the tree and lay it across the tracks to make a spark when the old steam engine ran over it. I'm 62 now, and was just looking at a few Polaroid pictures of the four of us kids sitting in front of the tree, each with a favorite toy. Merry Christmas everyone!
@@SPCLPONYMerry Christmas!
@SPCLPONY love that memory.....I always just remember always getting pyjamas lol
Man! Somebody had access to some great gear! Would love to know who & where.
Good question! Me Too
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
😂
A Beautiful Christmas!
Happy holidays!
My mum was 8 months old then...... She passed away in 2013 a whole life time comes and goes, if I had one wish..... Give me a time machine, thanks mum for looking after me 🌹❤️
I would so love a Time Machine Also, my dad was born in 1935 and passed away in 1998, still miss him
Yep!!!👍👍
Great to see this. The color is so good, it this Kodachrome? Kodachrome doesn't fade that's why I am wondering. Thanks for posting this, fascinating look back.
I believe it is Kodachrome, Thanks for visiting my channel, God Bless
My grand parents weren't born at this time yet they are already gone. Life goes fast. Days are long and years ate short
That is so True, time waits for no one
A Christmas Story is set in 1941, they nailed it!
I didn't know that's Awesome, thanks for the info
Amerika was so so far ahead. We had this luxury somewhere in the 50s 60s or something? Back in the 30s it was almost victorian here
where are you At ?
@@FullFrame-tm9oy the Netherlands ( city Rotterdam) i’m all in to history before ww2. I’m also busy with my family history and finding out how they lived back than. It’s so fascinating . Pictures you van find yes but video’s that’s something else.
At first I thought, "They're giving that man a sparkly magician's coat!" Then I realized it was a robe.
it is a nice robe
😂😂😂 I love the way you think! ❤
@@LynneC44 Lol, thanks!
Time machine! I think this is the earliest color home movie I’ve ever seen
I have videos from the same family in color for Christmas 1937 and 1939 if you want to check them out also
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
Thank you
You're welcome, Thank You for viewing my channel
This is so fascinating. That Christmas tree is really amazing. And as others have said the little girl is so cute. Too bad.
We don't have audio. Kids say such hilarious things sometimes and always have.
I would love to hear the real sounds from back then
@@FullFrame-tm9oy - Maybe there's a lip reader out there who could give us an idea what they were saying to each other. Nonetheless , a very lovely video. Thanks for posting it.
That would be Awesome to have a lip reader figure out what they said
These people had money. A fur coat! This was still during the Great Depression.
they were one of the lucky ones that's for sure
So what?
I was thinking the same. That family must have been very well off.
@@jabbermocky4520 I’d say they were affluent but not necessarily super wealthy. Unemployment remained stubborn in 1938 at 17% but that still meant 83% were IN work and prices had tumbled during the Depression years. Plenty of people had money to spend.
@@gerardmackay8909 My parents were newly married that year. I remember her telling a story of how broke they were. She had nothing for dinner and payday was a day away. She searched the couch cushions for loose change and found nine cents. Enough to buy a pound of chop meat.She went to the butcher and he said its a little over a pound is that okay? she said no. I'm making something, it has to be a pound. she was too embarrassed to say thats all she had.
Really great find thanks for posting it.
Glad you enjoyed it
Hello.. The Christmas display @3:00 is very impressive. Maybe someone can find out where this was filmed.. It would also be interesting to find out what happened to this family and the little girl as she grew up... Thanks for posting this.. a Great Find for sure.. 😃🌲
Check out the 1937 & 1939 Color Christmas with the same family on my Channel, Merry Christmas
Wow, this family was wealthy during the Depression. Dad must have been a lawyer or doctor.
Yes they were, not sure what he did but he made $$$
Love this! Christmas was just so much better from then till the 70s in my opinion.
I agree
The little girl in the red dress would have been around the same age as my mom that year. Now my mom is 90. ❤❤
Wow that's awesome!!! Happy New Year !!!
That's the way life should be,no cell phones, just family bonding and speaking... Next lifetime I guess!
I So Agree
That family was very fortunate to have such a delightful Christmas during the Great Depression. WWII was on the horizon and that young man may have been drafted.
I Agree...Happy New Year !!!
01:00 Lead laced tree tinsels. We used them too in the 50s and 60s until they found out the lead was detrimental in the 70s.
What's a little lead between friends or at least on the Christmas tree...lol
@@FullFrame-tm9oyYeah, just don’t ingest them. And wash hands after touching them.
This sweet little girl miggt still be alive 🎉🎉🎉 Think how kuch she has seen in her life. This is so sweet, it makes me cry 😭 for the sweeter times we once had .....
I hope she is
Remarkably sharp and clear for 8MM. Mayb this was shot with a Bolex?
it was shot on a good camera for sure
this made me too sad, I couldnt' watch the whole thing.... everything we've lost as a culture and society.... we are done, we'll never have this again.... I am so lonely. My heart aches.
sorry it made you sad, but I understand what you're saying
There must have been some AI help in this, because there are no film scratches or dust particles visible. However, it is still a beautiful memoir from a bygone era!
yes Topaz