My Favorite Home Movies and Amateur Films

A list of my favorite home movies, home movie collections and amateur films that are available for online viewing.

All Personal Sound Movies (excerpt)
Fred McLeod, 1962
Orgone Archive

https://archive.org/details/homemovie_fred_mccleod

Auto Accident
Sidney Meislik, 1962

https://vimeo.com/307370670

Baksh Family – Road Trip
Shenaz Baksh, 2008
Home Made Visible


http://homemadevisible.ca/home-movie/shenaz-baksh-family-road-trip/

Charles E. Smith Collection
Charles E. Smith, 1938
Prelinger Archives Home Movies


https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Charles+E.+Smith%2C+M.D.%22

Colette’s Placenta
Andrea DeGette, 1998

https://archive.org/details/Colette_Placenta_With_Commentary

Daly Family Home Movies
Marcus Daly and Family, circa 1919-1922
Montana Historical Societ
y

Playlist (10 reels)

Montana Historical Society blog post on collection

Excerpt on Lele von Harrenreich Young Daly Djamgaroff Wells Ford from the book “740 Park: The Story of the World’s Richest Apartment Building

Díaz Family Archive
Díaz Family, 1970s

https://vimeo.com/showcase/4302069

Valley Mart Opening in Weslaco

[Dunn’s Dairy Bar, Waterloo, Indiana] [Home Movie: 98615: Unidentified]
Unidentified, 1950s
Prelinger Archives

https://archive.org/details/HMUnidentified98615
Dairy Bar segment starts at 7:10

[Dutch funeral] [filmcollectief-06-191]
Unidentified, 1956
Collectie Filmcollectief

https://archive.org/details/filmcollectief-06-191

Fee
Walther Barth, 1929
Tennessee Archive of Moving Image and Sound

[Greenland] (Kaj Nielsen film collection)
Kaj Nielsen, circa 1970s
Inuiaati Isaat

http://www.inuiaatisaat.gl/categories/kaj-nielsen

Jarret Family Home Movies
David Jarret and Family, 1958-1967
Orgone Archive/Museum of Modern Art

Jonestown Peoples Temple Home Movies
Peoples Temple, 1974-1978
California Historical Society

Collection on Archive.org
[Jonestown residents entertaining in pavilion]

Mister E
Margaret Conneely, 1960
Chicago Film Archives

http://www.chicagofilmarchives.org/collections/index.php/Detail/Object/Show/object_id/4824

Margaret Conneely Collection

Mother Mills
Unknown, circa 1961

Movie Film Showing How the Kingsley Machine is Manufactured at Our Factory
Homer Henselt Howard, 1930
Chicago Film Archives

http://www.chicagofilmarchives.org/collections/index.php/Detail/Object/Show/object_id/9483

My 8mm Project
Cassandra Bromfield collection, 1970s

Ditmas Jr. High Playlist

My 8MM Project channel home page

[Oregon State Department of Motor Vehicles office in Salem] [Large Bureaucratic Office]
Unidentified, 1960s
Prelinger Archives Home Movies

https://archive.org/details/PA000184H264

Our Day
Wallace Kelly, 1938

Center for Home Movies, Library of Congress

Amateur Night: Home Movies from American Archives on Vimeo

Portrait Posing
Jacob Glick, 1944
Chicago Film Archives

http://www.chicagofilmarchives.org/collections/index.php/Detail/Object/Show/object_id/3188

Prize Fight
Ira Gershwin, 1937
Library of Congress

https://www.loc.gov/item/mbrs02059949

US Army 31st Tank Battalion Soldier’s Wartime Movies in Europe and Washington, DC
Stephan Minovich, circa 1944-1945
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn1003462