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A silent home movie featuring children playing with their Christmas toys, a child’s third birthday party celebration, and families interacting outd...

Silent home movies featuring the Finnegans’ trip to Tampa, Florida and wintertime at home in Chicago.

A public relations information film about the Starr Commonwealth for Boys, a privately endowed school for troubled boys. Depicts the emphasis on se...

A young boy learns how to develop good posture habits and why good posture is important in helping him to look, feel, and perform better. For eleme...

Creates an awareness of personal identity, the five senses, feelings, and the Golden rule using a combination of live action, music, animation, and...

Tells the story of a little girl who overcomes her shyness and shares something ususual with her classmates. (WorldCat)

This is footage of the Godman brothers playing with train sets, board games, and dancing with their mother. 

A home movie reel consisting of four parts spliced together, one in color and the following in black and white. In the first, color segment, a Rock...

Spooky Boo's and Room Noodles, one of Somersaulter-Moats and Somersaulter's first children's films, is an animated lesson about fear of th...

Sound home movie depicting the Palazzolo family's 1977 Halloween outing.

A home movie shot by John Ott of Winnetka, Illinois.

Presents a dramatization of a young girl's first baby-sitting job to emphasize the responsibilities young people take on when they become baby-sitt...

Home movie footage of suburban residential yard scenes.

Home movie that primarily features a baby boy and his mother. Also includes scenes of women sitting and posing on a couch.

Home movie footage of an infant taking a bath and being fed; the Baker family’s wrapping and unwrapping of Christmas gifts; infants in a crib toget...

Home movie footage of a family on Christmas; children playing in the backyard and in a portable pool, family members walking up a snowy sidewalk, v...